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On this date, Racine's "Patent Medicine King" Dr. C.I. Shoop died in Hollywood, California at the age of 73. The restored Shoop building still stands at 215 State Street in Racine. [Source:

Just after dawn on May 10, 1865, Col. Henry Harnden of Madison and his squad of 30 volunteers from the First Cavalry

On this date, Ithamar Conkey Sloan, brother of Andrew Scott Sloan, was born in Morrisville, N.Y. He moved to Janesville, Wisconsin in 1854 where he practiced law. He served as district attorney of Rock County from 1858 to 1862 and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867). Sloan moved to Madison in 1875 and served as dean of the law department of the University of Wisconsin. He also served as special counsel for the State of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1879 in the Granger law cases. Sloan died in Janesville, Rock County on December 24, 1898, and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. [Source:

When a shotgun blew a fist-sized hole in Alexis St. Martin's side on June 6, 1822, military physician William Beaumont was astonished that the young fur trader worker didn't simply die on the spot. Instead, he recovered -- though with a permanent opening through his muscle wall and into his stomach that required bandaging for the rest of his life....

On this date the first European family, the Hanleys, arrived and settled in the

On this date Rupert E. Fessenden, Rock County's chief deputy, discovered the largest ever illegal liquor distillery in southern Wisconsin. The distillery was found on the old Frances Willard estate south of the Wisconsin School for the Blind. Ironically, Willard was one of the founders of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. [Source:

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On this day Bernhard Domschke, Civil War veteran, newspaperman and prominent Milwaukee citizen, died. Domschke was born in Saxony and educated in Dresden and Leipzig, Germany. As a young man, he immigrated to the U.S., and edited the

On this date John James Blaine was born in the town of Wingville in Grant County. A politician, governor, and U.S. Senator, Blaine attended public schools in Montfort, and received a law degree from Northern Indiana University. He was admitted to the Wisconsin bar in 1897 and practiced briefly in Montfort before settling in Boscobel. A Progressive Republican, he served as Boscobel's mayor for four terms and was elected to the State Senate in 1909. It was there that he gained prominence by l

On this date, Golda Meir (nee Mabovitch) was born in Kiev, Russia. Economic hardship forced her family to emigrate to the United States in 1906, where they settled in Milwaukee. She graduated from the Milwaukee Normal School (now University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and joined the Poalei Zion, the Milwaukee Labor Zionist Party, in 1915. In 1921, she emigrated to Palestine with her husband, Morris Myerson, where they worked for the establishment of the State of Israel. Meir served as Israel's Minister of Labor and National Insurance from 1949 through 1956 and as the Foreign Minister until January of 1966. When Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol died suddenly in 1969, Meir assumed the post, becoming the world's third female Prime Minister. She died in Jerusalem on December 8, 1978. [Source:

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In the summer of 1834, Rev. Cutting Marsh of Kaukauna journeyed across Wisconsin into Iowa, keeping a daily diary as he went. On the Mississippi he heard about the recent death of "a very wicked man" named Nadeau, whose fate was worthy of a story by Edgar Allan Poe: "It was said," Rev. Marsh wrote on August 23rd, "that he...