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Northwest side murder and grave could hold key to unsolved 1907 murder

Many years ago arsenic poisoning was a very convenient way of committing murder due to the fact that modern forensics technology was in its infancy...
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Milwaukee's first multi-term mayor

Squeezed between the mayoral terms of two of Milwaukee's founders, Byron Kilbourn and George H. Walker, was one Don Alonzo Joshua Upham, the...
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Happy Birthday, Valentin Blatz

Valentin Blatz was born in Miltenberg-on-the-Main, Bavaria on October 1, 1826. His parents were Casper and Barbara Blatz. At the age of 14 he went...
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Newhall House fire of 1883

The Newhall House of Milwaukee was built in 1857. It was a 6-story wooden hotel that could hold 300 guests and was considered one of the largest...
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The cemetery of Milwaukee's history

Forest Home Cemetery was established in 1850 shortly after the Milwaukee was founded in 1846. The city leaders began a search for a location for...
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Who is that street named after: Wells

Wells Street in Milwaukee isn't named after any water reservoirs or holes or shafts that may have existed back in the early days of the city, but...
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German cousins established tannery business in Milwaukee

Guido Pfister came to Milwaukee in 1847 from Wurtemberg, Germany, having learned the tannery business while growing up in Germany. He established...
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Florist to Milwaukee park commissioner

Charles B. Whitnall was born on January 21, 1859 in a Cream City brick house on the banks of the Milwaukee River just north of Locust Street. He...
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The singing mayor of Milwaukee

Carl Frederick Zeidler shocked the city of Milwaukee in 1940 by defeating long time socialist mayor Daniel Hoan. Zeidler was a political neophyte...
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Increase Lapham, Wisconsin's first great scientist

Increase Allen Laphamwas Wisconsin's Renaissance Man, a pioneer naturalist, an author, scholar, archaeologist, botanist, geologist, and engineer....
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