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Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee
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President Theodore Roosevelt leaving the Chicago and North Western depot after arriving in Milwaukee on his October 14th, 1912 visit, during which he was shot and wounded on N. Third Street between W. Wells Street and W. Kilbourn Avenue. Left to right, Police Sgt. Robert Flood; newsboy Howard Cunningham; former Wisconsin Governor George W. Peck; Roosevelt; Oliver Remey, Press Club representative; and Frank Cannon of Milwaukee, then Secretary of the Citizen's Business League and later known as one of the fathers of Wisconsin's modern highway system.
October 14, 1912
Taylor, J. Robert
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