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...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1861-1933 Never was the Jefferson County Union a more vibrant and interesting paper than from 1918 to 1933 when Halbert Hoard held the editorial reins. Halbert was born in 1861, the eldest son of Agnes Bragg and William Dempster Hoard. He took over...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1922 Widely considered to be the father of the Wisconsin dairy industry, William Dempster Hoard also played a prominent role in the early development of the School of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. To honor his contribution, in...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1877-1955 Born on the 4th of July 1877, in the same house on Clarence St. where he would live his whole life, Ernie Hausen was destined to become Fort Atkinson’s only world champion. Using the techniques he perfected while working as a butcher at...
