Edward was born and raised in Milwaukee and, except for a brief stint in the Navy, has lived his whole life learning about and enjoying the city's rich history and its many European ethnic traditions.
On October 5, 1917, the first son of Elmer Ellsworth and Leila M. Allen was born in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. They named him Allen Packard Ellsworth. His father, Elmer, died on January 6, 1919, a victim of the worldwide...
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on September 25, 1905. His father was a grocer and his mother a homemaker. His father gave him the nickname of "Brick" because of his...
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 20, 1912, Frank P. Zeidler was the last of Milwaukee's great socialist mayors and the last socialist to run a major city.He was educated at the University of Chicago and...
Hamlin Garland was born on September 14, 1860 in West Salem, Wisconsin. After the Civil War, his family, who made their living as farmers, moved from homestead to homestead, first in Iowa, then South Dakota.In 1884, he moved to...
Wisconsin's third governor became the nation's first elected governor to be ousted by the decision of a state Supreme Court.
William Augustus Barstow was born on September 13, 1813 in Plainfield, Connecticut. He moved to Wisconsin...
On September 10, 1842, the American Fur Company declared bankruptcy, bringing an end to a company that at one time had been America's largest, one that had held a monopoly on the entire fur trade in America, and...
Borchert Field, or Borchert's Orchard, is part of the lexicon of Milwaukee. Originally called Athletic Park in 1888, it was the home of Milwaukee's minor league teams, specifically, the American Association Milwaukee Brewers from 1902...
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 1, 1875. His father was a Civil War veteran and rich whiskey distiller. Burroughs was also a descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
He...
It began innocently enough. Four Indians, Brown Wing, Breaking Up, Killing Ghost, and Runs Against Something When Crawling were coming home from an unsuccessful hunting trip on August 17, 1862. According to reports, they came upon a hen's...
It was a sold-out concert at Alpine Valley Music Theater that evening on August 26, 1990. Over 30,000 fans had descended upon East Troy, Wisconsin to enjoy a show featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble on their...