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Historical Essay

Fur Trader
Biography of pioneer fur trader Jacques Vieau.

Historical Essay

Land Speculator and Politician
Brief biography of surveyor, land speculator, railroad promoter and politician Byron Kilbourn, twice elected mayor of Milwaukee.

Historical Essay


Learn more about the entrepreneur and manufacturing innovator who established, Allis Company, Milwaukee's largest industrial employer in the late 1880s.

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