On this date Catherine Amy Dunn Dewey was born in Golconda, Illinois. Catherine Dunn married Governor Nelson Dewey on December 18, 1850 in Belmont, Wisconsin, after he had been elected to his second term as governor. She gave birth to three children in Wisconsin, two of whom lived to adulthood. When her palatial home, Stonefield, in Cassville burned to the ground, Catherine Dewey took her children to Europe. She never returned to Cassville or her husband, settling instead at 110 State Street. In 1886, Nelson Dewey began divorce proceedings against his wife on grounds of desertion but later dropped the suit. He died in 1889, the impoverished tenant of one room at the Denniston Hotel in Cassville. Catherine Amy Dunn Dewey died on March 16, 1898 in Washington, D.C., where she was living with her daughter's family. She is buried there. [Source: First Ladies of Wisconsin - The Governors' Wives by Nancy G. Williams]
The Milwaukee Daily Sentinel advocated for an increase in military compensation: "If any men deserve to be well paid it is the men who are enduring the hardships and running the risks of a war like this." It also provided details of a senate bill to increase soldiers' pay to $16 a month and pay African-American soldiers the same as white soldiers.
1930 - UW Fieldhouse Dedicated
On this date the University of Wisconsin Fieldhouse was dedicated as the Badgers beat the University of Pennsylvania, 25-12, in a college basketball game. The Badgers played their first game there five days earlier against Carroll College. [Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
1950 - Lake Geneva Vies for Air Force Academy
On this date the city of Lake Geneva put forth efforts to be the future site for the U.S. Air Force Academy. A federal selection committee arrived to inspect the 100-room Stone Manor on Geneva Lake's south shore and considered it as a possible headquarters building. The Air Force's college for officers was eventually located in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1958. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
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