by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1821 – 1914 “To any enterprising young man, America threw out the most tempting promises. So, in the hopes of bettering my condition in life, I sailed for the United States, making southern Wisconsin my goal. There we lived in log cabins,...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1843 to 1888 The naturalist Thure Kumlien was born to a Swedish aristocratic family. He migrated to this country in 1843. He was drawn to the Koshkonong area by letters he read from a minister of a Koshkonong parish. When he came to the county to buy...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Milo Jones Date in History: 1830s Milo Jones was born in Vermont and grew up on a dairy farm there. In 1832 he traveled west to Michigan Territory to work as a government surveyor, and by 1834 he was in Milwaukee surveying the future Blue Mound Road. A few years later...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1900’s This historic document aired on the radio as an Historic Minute on 12/08/2003. One hundred years ago in a small blacksmith shop on a dairy farm in Wales Wisconsin, William James built an adjustable cow stall featuring a rotating...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1884 – 1967 Eliza Pierce Caswell Ivey was born into a prominent Fort Atkinson family in 1884. Her paternal grandfather, attorney and U.S. congressman Lucien Caswell, had founded the First National Bank (now PremierBank) back in 1863, and her...
