Lower Canada
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The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It covered the portion of the modern-day Province of Quebec, Canada. Other parts of New France ceded to Britain became the Colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the prefix lower in its name refers to its geographic position farther downriver from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than its contemporary Upper Canada, present-day southern Ontario. The colony/province was abolished in 1841, when it and the adjacent Upper Canada were united into the Province of Canada, like Upper Canada, there was significant political unrest. Twenty-two years after the invasion by the Americans in the War of 1812, an abortive attempt by revolutionary Robert Nelson to declare a Republic of Lower Canada was quickly thwarted. The provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were combined as the United Province of Canada in 1841 and their separate legislatures were combined i
Keshena, Wisconsin
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Keshena is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, it had a population of 1,262 at the 2010 census, keshena was named for an Indian chief. Keshena is located at 44°52′41″N 88°37′44″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.5 square miles, of which 99. 88% is land and 0. 12% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,394 people,353 households, the population density was 164.7 people per square mile. There were 376 housing units at a density of 44. 4/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 3. 08% White,0. 14% African American,95. 98% Native American,0. 07% Pacific Islander,0. 07% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 73% of the population. 13. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.85 and the average family size was 4
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Downtown Keshena
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Park
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Fur trader
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The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the modern period, furs of boreal, polar. Historically the trade stimulated the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America, today the importance of the fur trade has diminished, it is based on pelts produced at fur farms and regulated fur-bearer trapping, but has become controversial. Animal rights organizations oppose the fur trade, citing that animals are brutally killed, Fur has been replaced in some clothing by synthetic imitations, for example, as in ruffs on hoods of parkas. Before the European colonization of the Americas, Russia was a supplier of fur pelts to Western Europe. Its trade developed in the Early Middle Ages, first through exchanges at posts around the Baltic, the main trading market destination was the German city of Leipzig. Originally, Russia exported raw furs, consisting in most cases of the pelts of marten
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muff manufacturer's 1949 advertisement
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The county seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigans western shore, Milwaukees estimated population in 2015 was 600,155. Milwaukee is the cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with an estimated population of 2,046,692 as of 2015. Ranked by estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, large numbers of German immigrants helped increase the citys population during the 1840s, with Poles and other immigrants arriving in the following decades. Known for its traditions, Milwaukee is currently experiencing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. In addition, many new skyscrapers, condos, lofts and apartments have been
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Statue of
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Illustrated map of Milwaukee in 1872
Wisconsin
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Wisconsin is a U. S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, the state is divided into 72 counties. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline, Wisconsin is known as Americas Dairyland because it is one of the nations leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology, and tourism are major contributors to the states economy. The word Wisconsin originates from the given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian-speaking Native American groups living in the region at the time of European contact. French explorer Jacques Marquette was the first Euro
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Jean Nicolet, depicted in a 1910 painting by Frank Rohrbeck, was probably the first European to explore Wisconsin. The mural is located in the
Brown County Courthouse in Green Bay.
Joseph Juneau
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Joseph Juneau was a miner and prospector from Canada who was born in the Quebec town of Saint-Paul-lErmite to François Xavier Juneau dit Latulippe and Marguerite Thiffault Juneau. He is best known for co-founding, with Richard Harris, the city of Juneau, Alaska, the first major gold discovery in Juneau or Douglas Island was circa 1880. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1900. Juneaus Native American guide in southeastern Alaska was Chief Kowee, who is credited with exploring much of the later named for Juneau. Harris and Juneau were sent with Kowee by George Pilz, an entrepreneur, after trading much of their grubstake for hoochinoo, or home brew, they returned to Pilz empty-handed, but were promptly sent back to the Juneau area. There, Kowee took them beyond Gold Creek to Silver Bow Basin, today, a creek on Douglas Island is named Kowee Creek. After the discovery of gold in the area, Harris and Juneau carried approximately 1,000 pounds of gold ore back to Sitka, the settlement fou
Juneau, Alaska
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The City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U. S. Congress in 1900. Downtown Juneau is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island, as of the 2010 census, the City and Borough had a population of 31,276. In 2014, the estimate from the United States Census Bureau was 32,406. Fairbanks, however, is the second most populous area in the state. Juneaus daily population can increase by roughly 6,000 people from visiting cruise ships between the months of May and September, the city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called Rockwell and then Harrisburg. The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántiki Héeni, and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Áakw in T
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Aerial view of Downtown Juneau, the cruise ship port, and Douglas Island from the Mount Roberts Tramway.
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Chief Anotklosh of the Taku tribe, circa 1913.
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Juneau City in 1887
Fort Michilimackinac
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Built around 1715, and abandoned in 1783, it was located along the Straits, which connected Lake Huron and Lake Michigan of the Great Lakes of North America. Present-day Mackinaw City developed around the site of the fort, which has designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is preserved as an historical museum, with several reconstructed wooden buildings. The fort served as a depot for traders in the western Great Lakes. In 1683, they augmented the mission with Fort de Buade, in 1701, Sieur de Cadillac moved the French garrison to Fort Detroit and closed the mission. By 1713, however, the French decided to re-establish a presence along the Straits of Mackinac and they sent Constant le Marchand de Lignery with a contingent of soldiers and workmen in 1715 to accomplish the job. Over the decades, they made modifications and expansions to the palisade walls. Chevalier Jacques Testard de Montigny, who was a Lt. and he was previously commandant of Fort La Baye. Many of his relatives set
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Fort Michilimackinac
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Recreated buildings inside the fort
Milwaukee River
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The Milwaukee River is a river in the state of Wisconsin. It is about 104 miles long, once a locus of industry, the river is now the center of a housing boom. New condos now crowd the downtown and harbor districts of Milwaukee attracting young professionals to the area, the river is also ribboned with parks as it winds through various neighborhoods. Kayaks and fishing boats share the river with party boats, an extensive Riverwalk featuring art displays, boat launches and restaurants lines its banks in downtown Milwaukee. The river begins in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin and flows south past Grafton to downtown Milwaukee, cedar Creek, the Menomonee River and the Kinnickinnic River are the three main tributaries. The Milwaukee River watershed drains 882 square miles in southeastern Wisconsin, including parts of Dodge, Fond du Lac, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington and Waukesha counties. The Milwaukee River watershed is part of the Lake Michigan subbasin, this subbasin is itself a
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The Milwaukee River frozen over as it is crossed by the Saint Paul Avenue bridge
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The east branch just west of
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Neighborhoods of Milwaukee
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This is a list of neighborhoods of Milwaukee. Two residents of the neighborhood may describe different neighborhood boundaries. Although rooted in history, neighborhoods remain social constructions, in which seemingly concrete things like boundaries are much rather in flux. This encyclopedic problem is true for all cities but is complicated in Milwaukee when identified neighborhoods can be within other neighborhoods. For instance, Brady Street and East Village are actually inside of the East Side, at the same time some Riverwest residents may regard the Beerline B as a separate distinct neighborhood or perhaps part of adjacent Brewers Hill. On the other hand, Beerline B and Brewers Hill residents might or might not agree that Beerline B is part of Brewers Hill. Certainly, residents and realtors tend to assign new names as neighborhoods evolve, in 1990, the Neighborhood Identification Project set boundaries and names for 75 areas of the city. Prior to that, neighborhood names were not o
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N 16th Street and W Atkinson
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N 16th Street, Arlngton Heights
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Liquor store near 12th and W Atkinson
George H. Walker
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George H. Walker was an American trader and politician who helped found the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as the 5th and 7th Mayor of Milwaukee, Walker was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and moved with his family to Illinois in 1825. He first arrived in Milwaukee on March 20,1834, in June 1835, he founded the settlement of Walkers Point on the south side of the Milwaukee River and established a fur trading post. In 1846, Walkers settlement combined with two rival villages - Solomon Juneaus Juneautown and Byron Kilbourns Kilbourntown - to incorporate the City of Milwaukee, Walker served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives from 1842-1845 and in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1851. Walker also served as the supervisor, register of the land office, alderman. He was one of the builders of the citys first street car line in 1859 and he died on September 20,1866 and is buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. Walkers younger brother, Isaac P. Walker, was a U. S,
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Warehouse District in Walker's Point
Byron Kilbourn
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Byron Kilbourn was an American surveyor, railroad executive, and politician who was an important figure in the founding of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kilbourn was born in Granby, Connecticut, United States, North America, in 1803, he moved with his family to Worthington, Ohio, which his father had helped found that year. Kilbourns father was James Kilbourne, a colonel during the War of 1812, representative from Ohio from 1813 to 1817. Byron Kilbourn worked in Ohio as a surveyor and as a state engineer and he first visited Wisconsin in 1834, landing at Green Bay, and worked as a government surveyor in the area. He later deemed the area near the Milwaukee River to be a location for commerce. In 1837 Kilbourn founded Kilbourntown, which rivaled with Solomon Juneaus Juneautown and he was a key figure in the Milwaukee Bridge War in 1845. In 1846, the three combined and formed the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1845 and was a me
Milwaukee Sentinel
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the newspaper in Milwaukee, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and is distributed widely throughout the state. It is owned by the Gannett Company, the new Journal Sentinel then became a seven-day morning paper. In early 2003, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel began printing operations at its new printing facility in West Milwaukee, the merged papers volume and edition numbers follow those of the Journal. The founder of Milwaukee, Solomon Juneau, provided the funds for editor John ORourke. It was first published as a weekly on June 27,1837. A deathly ill ORourke struggled to help the paper to find its feet before he died six months later of tuberculosis at the age of 24, on Juneaus request, ORourkes associate, Harrison Reed, remained to take over the Sentinels operations. He continued the struggle to keep the paper ahead of its debts, meanwhile, the establishment of the Whig party in the ter
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Journal Communications building
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The front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Postmaster
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A postmaster is the head of an individual post office. When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization, in the United States, women have served as postmasters since the Revolutionary War and even earlier, under British rule. In Canada, many places are named after the first postmaster. In the days of horse-drawn carriages, a postmaster was an individual from whom horses and/or riders could be hired, the postmaster would reside in a post house. In the United States, many postmasters are members of a management organization which consults with the United States Postal Service for compensation, the level of pay is based on deliveries and revenue of the post office. Levels are from EAS18 through 26, smaller remotely managed post offices no longer have Postmasters and report to a nearby larger office. Larger metropolitan post offices are PCES
Metis (United States)
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The Métis in the United States are a Métis people in the United States, who trace their descent to Native Americans and white settlers. Those identifying as Métis in the U. S. are fewer in number than the Métis in Canada. The Métis have developed as a group from the descendants of indigenous women who married French fur trappers and traders during the 18th and 19th centuries at the height of the fur trade. At the time, the border did not exist between Canada and the British colonies as much of the area was undeveloped, traders and trappers easily moved back and forth through the area. The Métis in Canada have a specific, unique culture, most are found among the Michif-speaking peoples of the Red River region in modern Manitoba. In the United States, Métis live in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, in the broadest sense, the term métis was applied to people of mixed indigenous and French ancestry in French colonies, it means mixture. But this use excludes mixe
Jacques Vieau
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Jacques Vieau was a French-Canadian fur trader and first permanent white settler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was born near Montreal, Canada and died in Howard, Vieau came to Green Bay in 1786 and married Angelique Roy there that year. She was the granddaughter of Potawatomi Indian chief, Anaugesa and they had at least twelve children together. He settled at Jambo Creek in Manitowoc County in 1795, while employed by the North West Company, Vieau established a fur trading post in the area that would become Milwaukee in 1795, along with outposts at Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Sheboygan. His Milwaukee cabin was built on top of a bluff overlooking the Menomonee Valley, a historical monument marks this location in Mitchell Park as the first house in Milwaukee. In 1818 Jacques Vieau hired another French-Canadian named Solomon Juneau, who married his daughter Josette. Vieau is the eponym of Vieau Elementary School and also a street found in Milwaukee, although the descendants of Vieau are centered
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Monument in Mitchell Park
Menomonee Valley
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The Menomonee Valley or Menomonee River Valley is a U-shaped land formation along the southern bend of the Menomonee River in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Because of its access to Lake Michigan and other waterways, the neighborhood has historically been home to the citys stockyards, rendering plants, shipping. It was also a source of pollution for the river. Glacial meltwater formed the Menomonee Valley over 10,000 years ago when the Lake Michigan Lobe of the Wisconsin Glaciation retreated and eroded a swath four miles long and half of a mile wide. Today, it is bounded by the 6th Street Viaduct near the river confluence. The valley effectively cuts Milwaukee in half, limiting access to a handful of viaducts that span the chasm, with a historically predominant white south side and black near north side, the valley has been perceived as a social and racial divide during times of civil unrest. In the 1960s, Father James Groppi organized protests against segregation in Milwaukee, the 16th Street
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Menomonee River
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Menomonee Valley in 1882
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Menomonee Valley in 2006
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Hank Aaron State Trail
Menominee
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Some placenames use other spellings, see also Menomonee and Menomonie. The Menominee are a federally recognized nation of Native Americans, with a 353.894 sq mi reservation in Wisconsin and their historic territory originally included an estimated 10 million acres in present-day Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The tribe currently has about 8,700 members, the tribe was terminated in the 1950s under federal policy of the time which stressed assimilation. The U. S. Supreme Court determined that the tribe had not lost traditional hunting and fishing rights as a result of termination, the tribe regained federal recognition in 1973 in an act of Congress, and re-established its reservation in 1975. They operate under a constitution establishing an elected government. Their first government under it took over government and administration from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1979. The Menominee are part of the Algonquian language family of North America, made up several tribes n
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Ball-headed War Club with Spike, Menominee, early 19th century,
Brooklyn Museum
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Spearing Salmon By Torchlight, an oil painting by
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Dodge County, Wisconsin
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Dodge County is a county located in the U. S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 88,759, the county was created from the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and organized in 1844. Dodge County comprises the Beaver Dam, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 907 square miles, of which 876 square miles is land and 31 square miles is water. The population density was 97 people per square mile, there were 33,672 housing units at an average density of 38 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 95. 28% White,2. 49% Black or African American,0. 40% Native American,0. 34% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 87% from other races, and 0. 58% from two or more races. 2. 55% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, according to Census 2000,56. 2% were of German,8. 7% Irish and 5. 0% English 4. 2% Norwegian and 3. 9% selected United States or American ancestry. 95. 4% spoke English,2. 2% Spanis
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Dodge County Administration building
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Dodge County Fairgrounds
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Entering Dodge County on
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Theresa, Wisconsin
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Theresa is a village in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,262 at the 2010 census, the village is within the Town of Theresa. Theresa was founded by Solomon Juneau along with his Metis wife and it was named for Solomons mother, Thérèse Galarneau Juneau. Theresa is located at 43°31′0″N 88°27′10″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.82 square miles, of which,0.80 square miles of it is land and 0.02 square miles is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,262 people,539 households, the population density was 1,577.5 inhabitants per square mile. There were 588 housing units at a density of 735.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 97. 5% White,0. 4% African American,0. 6% Native American,0. 2% Asian,0. 6% from other races, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 7% of the population. 28. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or
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Looking north in downtown Theresa
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Theresa Public Library
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Northern welcome sign
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Western welcome sign
Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Calvary Cemetery is the oldest existing Roman Catholic cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Owned by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, it is the resting place for many of the citys early influential figures. The cemetery was designated a Milwaukee Landmark in 1981, with 75 acres and approximately 80,000 interments, the Victorian landscape contains many ornate statues, crypts and monuments. It was filled with the remains of the 10-acre Old Cemetery, by 1880 Calvary had 10,307 recorded burials and an additional 20 acres were added. Both the Gothic Revival gate house and Romanesque Revival chapel were designed by architect Erhard Brielmaier, a service building was constructed sometime after 1890 in Queen Anne style using Cream City brick, a distinct light colored brick made locally. The building is still in use today, the wooden gate house with its triumphal arch and four-story tower was completed in 1897. It is the oldest building on the grounds and was repainted in 2002 when a new building was
Paul O. Husting
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Paul Oscar Adolph Husting was an American lawyer from Mayville, Wisconsin who served as a Democratic Party member of the United States Senate from 1915 to 1917. Husting was born April 25,1866 in Fond du Lac and his father, John P. Husting, had emigrated from the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg to the United States in 1855. His mother, Mary M. Rusting, née Juneau, was the fourth youngest of sixteen children born to Solomon Juneau, co-founder, Husting moved with his parents to Mayville, Wisconsin, in 1876, where he received a common school education. Husting entered the University of Wisconsin Law School, passed the bar examination. He initially practiced law in Mayville by himself, but in 1897 associated himself with C. W. Lamoreux until the latter was elected judge, Husting was elected district attorney of Dodge County in 1902 and reelected in 1904. He was elected to the senate in 1906, and reelected in 1910. Husting was the first United States senator from Wisconsin to be elected by a vote o
United States Senate
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The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution. S. From 1789 until 1913, Senators were appointed by the legislatures of the states represented, following the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913. The Senate chamber is located in the wing of the Capitol, in Washington. It further has the responsibility of conducting trials of those impeached by the House, in the early 20th century, the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor leaders began, although they are not constitutional officers. This idea of having one chamber represent people equally, while the other gives equal representation to states regardless of population, was known as the Connecticut Compromise, there was also a desire to have two Houses that
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United States Senate
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A typical Senate desk
Mitchell Building
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The Mitchell Building is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the building was constructed by U. S. It would go on to house a bank, the property is presumed to have once been the site of the residence of Solomon Juneau. Juneau helped to found Milwaukee and served as its first mayor, the Mitchell Building is adjacent to the Mackie Building, which was also built by Mitchell, designed by E. Townsend Mix and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed pro
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Logo used for the NRHP.
SS Solomon Juneau
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SS Solomon Juneau was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. It was operated by Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company, while in the Mediterranean, the SS Solomon Juneau shot down five enemy German aircraft. A German submarine torpedoed the ship in April 1945, blowing two soldiers overboard who were never found, seventeen years later, in 1962, it was scrapped at Panama City, Florida. List of Liberty ships SS Winona, a Weyerhaeuser ship in World War I Gun crew at Treasure Island, March 1943
Juneau Monument
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The Juneau Monument is a public artwork by American artist Richard Henry Park located on the grounds of Juneau Park, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The base of the statue is made of limestone, on top of the base is a bronze statue of Solomon Juneau. On each side of the base are bronze reliefs, the statue is 5 feet wide by 15 feet high. The front of the base is inscribed with the name of the figure depicted in the sculpture. The back of the base is inscribed, “The gift of Charles T. Bradley, on the north side of the base is a bronze relief of Juneau being greeted by Native Americans. Underneath the relief, an inscription reads, “Solomon Juneau, First Mayor of Milwaukee, on the south side of the base is a bronze relief of Juneau being elected to Congress. Underneath the relief is the inscription, “Solomon Juneau, First Mayor of Milwaukee, the sculpture was unveiled on July 6,1887 by Juneau’s granddaughter, Hattie White. Solomon Juneau was a French Canadian born in a village near Montr
Find a Grave
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Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organi
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Find A Grave.com's current headquarters in
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William Pitt Lynde
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William Pitt Lynde was an American lawyer and politician from Wisconsin who served in the United States House of Representatives and as Mayor of Milwaukee. Lynde was born in Sherburne, New York and he graduated from Yale College, in 1838, and Harvard Law School, in 1841, and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin shortly thereafter, in 1842 he founded the law firm Finch & Lynde with partner Asahel Finch, Jr. Finch & Lynde survives today as Foley & Lardner, one of the oldest and largest law firms in the country. Lynde became Attorney General of the Wisconsin Territory in 1844 and United States Attorney for Wisconsin in 1845 and he also served as president of the board of trustees of the Village of Milwaukee. When Wisconsin was admitted as a state in 1848, Lynde was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and he joined part of the 30th United States Congress from June 5,1848 till March 3,1849 representing Wisconsins 1st congressional distric
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William Pitt Lynde
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Gravesite in Forest Home Cemetery
Harrison Ludington
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Harrison Ludington was an American Republican politician who served as the 12th Governor of Wisconsin and a mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His grandfather was Colonel Henry Ludington, a officer of the volunteer 7th Regiment of the Dutchess County Militia. Henry Ludington later became an aide to General George Washington, henrys daughter, Sybil Ludington, was famous for risking her life when she was 16 years old to warn the American militia that British troops were burning Danbury, Connecticut. Ludington was born in Kent, Dutchess County, New York, son of Frederick and Susannah Ludington. He moved to Milwaukee in 1838, at the age of 24 he became a joint owner of a merchandising business with his uncle, Lewis Ludington. This general merchandising business was conducted out of Solomon Juneaus warehouse between years 1839–1851, in 1851 he became involved in lumber business, operating in the northeastern part of the state. He was a member of the firm of Ludington, Wells, Ludington became an
George Wilbur Peck
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George Wilbur Peck was an American writer and politician from Wisconsin. He served as the 17th Governor of Wisconsin and the 9th Mayor of Milwaukee, Peck was born in 1840 in Henderson, New York, the oldest of three children of David B. and Alzina P. Peck. In 1843, the moved to what is now Cold Spring. Peck attended public school until age 15, when he was apprenticed in the printing trade and he married Francena Rowley in 1860 and they had two sons. In 1863 he enlisted in the 10th Wisconsin Regiment as a private and he was taken prisoner and held at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. After he was released in an exchange, he was appointed to West Point Military Academy by Abraham Lincoln. He was promoted to lieutenant and served until the regiment mustered out in 1866, Peck became a newspaper publisher who founded newspapers in Ripon and La Crosse, Wisconsin. His La Crosse newspaper, The Sun, was founded in 1874, in 1878 Peck moved the newspaper to Milwaukee, renaming it Pecks Sun. The
Peter J. Somers
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Peter J. Somers was an Irish-American mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and member of the United States House of Representatives. Somers was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and he grew up in the state of Wisconsin. He became a lawyer and moved to Milwaukee, where he became involved in politics. Somers served as city attorney for Milwaukee, in 1890, he was elected to the Milwaukee Common Council and served as president of the Milwaukee Common Council. Mitchell who was elected to the U. S. Senate, Somers took over as the representative of Wisconsins 4th congressional district in the 53rd United States Congress. Somers, a member of the Democratic Party, was not renominated for a full term in 1894. He continued practicing law in Milwaukee until 1905, when he moved to Reno and he became a lawyer, judge for Esmeralda County, Nevada, and served for a time as chairman of the Nevada Democratic State Central Committee. He died in Los Angeles, California, Somers was buried at Calvary Cemetery in L
David Stuart Rose
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David Stuart Rose was an American politician and was twice elected mayor of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin serving from 1898 to 1906 and from 1908 to 1910. Born in Darlington, Wisconsin, he joined his fathers law firm in Darlington and he served as mayor of Darlington in 1883 and 1884 and was county judge of Lafayette County, Wisconsin. In 1886, he moved to Milwaukee where he practiced law
Emil Seidel
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Emil Seidel was a prominent German-American politician. Seidel was the mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912, the first Socialist mayor of a major city in the United States, Seidel became the Vice Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America in the 1912 presidential election. Seidel was born December 13,1864 in the town of Ashland in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and his family moved to Wisconsin in 1867, living first in Prairie du Chien before moving to the state capital of Madison. Seidels father, Otto Seidel, was a carpenter, and his mother, Seidel attended public school up to the age of 13, when he dropped out to become a woodcarver. He continued to study after leaving school, reading extensively, at the age of 19 he started a trade union of local woodworkers, becoming the organizations first secretary. At the age of 22, Seidel went abroad to refine his skills as a woodcarver and he lived for six years in Berlin, working at his trade during the day and attending schoo
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Emil Seidel, first Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee.
Gerhard Adolph Bading
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Gerhard Adolph Bading was an American physician, politician, and diplomat. Bading is best remembered as the 31st mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, envoy and an Ambassador Extraordinary to Ecuador from 1922 until his retirement in 1930. Gerhard Adolph Bading was born August 31,1870 in Milwaukee and his father was for 27 years the president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America. Bading did not graduate from this institution, however, deciding to leave school for a year to become a cowboy in Texas, badings stint in the Southwest was brief and he was soon back home in Milwaukee. Bading decided to start a career in medicine and was admitted to Rush Medical College in Chicago, upon graduation Bading worked for a year as a physician at a Milwaukee hospital. He then moved from practicing medicine to teaching, taking a post as an instructor of pathology at Milwaukee Medical College. For the next four years he worked as an associate in surgery, before moving to the Wisco
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Dr. Gerhard Adolph Bading was the 31st Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Carl Zeidler
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Carl Frederick Zeidler was the mayor of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1940 to 1942, winning election by unseating six-term Socialist mayor Dan Hoan. After just two years in office Zeidler resigned his position as mayor to enlist in the United States Navy Reserve to fight in World War II and his merchant marine ship and all hands were lost off the coast of South Africa in December 1942. Carl Zeider was born January 4,1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to parents of German ancestry and he graduated from Marquette University in 1929 and received a J. D. in 1931. Serving as an assistant city attorney for Milwaukee, Zeidler stunned the city when he upset six-term Socialist mayor Daniel Hoan to become mayor of Milwaukee in 1940, Hoan had served as mayor for the past 24 years. His rise to power was orchestrated by young writers Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer, in Blochs autobiography, Once Around the Bloch, he gives an inside account of the campaign, and the innovations he and Gauer came up
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Pinback button from Carl Zeidler's 1940 mayoral campaign.
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Gravesite
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Frank Zeidler
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Frank Paul Zeidler was an American Socialist politician and Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving three terms from April 20,1948 to April 18,1960. He was the most recent Socialist mayor of any major American city, Zeidler was born in Milwaukee on September 20,1912. He studied at both the University of Chicago and Marquette University, but was never able to graduate due to ill health and he became a socialist, because of socialisms emphasis on peace and improving the conditions for workers. In a more thorough interview, Zeidler said he chose the ideology of socialism in 1933 because of things in its philosophy. One was the brotherhood of all over the world. Another was its struggle for peace, another was the equal distribution of economic goods. Another was the idea of cooperation, a fifth was the idea of democratic planning in order to achieve your goals. He distanced himself from the beliefs of communism, especially communism linked in any way to the Soviet Union, later however, he c
John Norquist
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John Olof Norquist is an American politician and 37th mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as mayor from 1988 until he left office in 2004 to lead the Congress for the New Urbanism, Norquist was born in Princeton, New Jersey, where his father, Rev. Ernest O. Norquist was attending seminary. He is married to Susan Mudd and has one son, Benjamin, Susan is the descendant of Samuel Mudd, the doctor who treated President Abraham Lincolns assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1975, where he served until seeking and winning a seat in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1983, in 1974 he ran against completing the Stadium South Freeway, which was to run from Milwaukee County Stadium south to I-894. In 1974, nearly 50% of the segment was either built or the land was cleared for construction. Norquist opposed the Stadium South despite his constituents voting for completion in the November 1974 Milwaukee County freeway referenda, all five remaining Milwaukee
Tom Barrett (politician)
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Thomas Mark Tom Barrett is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the 44th and current Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 2004. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and he previously served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1984 until 1989. Barrett ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 2010, losing in the election to Republican Scott Walker. After a recall election, Barrett again ran for Governor in 2012 and was defeated by Walker, Barrett is the oldest son of Gertrude Virginia and Thomas J. Barrett, both of Irish descent. His father was a World War II veteran who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1944 for 30 missions over Germany as a navigator and his mother was a war widow when she met his father at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They married and moved to Milwaukee, where Barrett was born and he grew up on the citys west side. He helped put himself through college and law school by working on
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Tom Barrett
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Barrett in 1993
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Barrett speaks with a Wisconsin dairy farmer
Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated int
