Wisconsin Civil War Officer, Wisconsin Governor |
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Brief biography of Gov. Louis P. Harvey, helped organize the Republican Party in 1854, state senator from 1854-1857 and in 1862 became governor. |
Industrialist and Businessman |
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Biography of Milwaukee industrialist and businessman Louis Allis. |
Lawyer, Politician, Land Speculator, Promoter and Author |
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Biography of lawyer, politician, land speculator and promoter and author of a History of the Territory of Wisconsin, Moses Mccure Strong. |
Inventor |
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Biography of Ole Evinrude, a Norwegian-American inventor who created the first outboard motor. |
Politician and Industrialist |
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Biography of Walter Jodok Koher, politician and founder of the Kohler Company. |
Author, Economist and Social Critic |
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Discover the history author, econonmist and social critic Thorstein Veblen. |
Learn more about the entrepreneur and manufacturing innovator who established, Allis Company, Milwaukee's largest industrial employer in the late 1880s. |
Read a short biography about this U.S. Senator famous for his penny-pinching attitude toward government spending and his courage in taking unpopular stands |
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