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HB: Wisconsin Volume 1 (CD-ROM for PCs)

This CD-ROM contains electronic image reprints of the following five works of Wisconsin history.

 

1- Old Cemetery Burials of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Volume 1, by Elizabeth Doherty Herzfeld, CGRS, pub. 1995.

This text, arranged alphabetically by surname of the deceased, is a listing of burials in 17 older cemeteries in Milwaukee Co., WI drawn from burial records and physical listing of tombstones. Records may contain: cemetery, surname, given name, maiden name, marital status, date and place of birth and death, age at time of death and cause of death for the deceased; tombstone inscription; aditional names listed on the same or adjacent stones, and location within cemetery.

List of Cemeteries:

1- St. Martin's Catholic Cemetery

2- St. Michaels's Catholic Cemetery

3- (Old) St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery

4- St. Peter's Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery, in Granville, WI

5- St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, in Fox Point, WI

6- Town of Milwaukee Union Cemetery, in Glendale, WI

7- Honey Creek Cemetery, in West Allis, WI

8- St. Matthias Cemetery, In the town of Greenfield, WI

9- Temple Mcnorah Ever-Rest, also known as Chevre Kedushe in Town of Greenfield, WI.

10- Blessed Sacrament

11- Forest Home Cemetery

12- Greenwood Cemetery

13- St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery

14- St. Peter's Cemetery, in River Hills, WI.

15- Carman Family Cemetery

16- Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. (Oldest tombstones only.)

17- People born in Maine and cremated at Forest Home Cemeter and buried elsewhere.

Sample entry:

48 (48 identifies the cemetery) ABRAHAM, Aaron b. Germany d. 18 Nov 1893 Milwaukee, Wis chronic intest. nephitis, 77 yrs old sec 1 blk 14 lot 3. A Abraham M

Surnames with 3 or more entries:

Abraham Abram Achterberg Ackerman Adelsbach Adler Ahern Albenberg Alexander Allmann Altshul Ambrose Anderson Annen Arnold

Bachand Bachmann Baer Baker Barbian Barker Barkow Barr Barth-Goetz Bartol Bauch Bauer Baum Baumgarden Beck Becker Beese Behrens Beilfuss Bender Benjamin Benz Berdie Berkowitz Berndt Bertram Betz Bick Bielefeld Billeb Binger Birkenwald Birnbaum Bischoff Biwer Black Blade Blankenheim Blawat Bloch Blum Boehlke Boettcher Bohm Bohmann Bonns Borchardt Bowitz Bradley Braun Brennecke Breslauer Breuer Breul Brickler Brill Brown Brunner Bruss Brust Brys Buck Buckman Burbach Burgemeister Burmeister Busz Butler

Caesar Carleton Cashin Caspary Cheaney Chipman Clancey Clark Cohen Cohn Coller Collins Conley Conrad Consaul Cooper Costello Cross Crowley Cullaton Cutler

Dalberg Daley Daniels Dassow Davis DeYoung Dedrick Degner Dehling Dellmann DeSwarte Deutsch Dewitz DeWolf Dicker Dickmann Differt Dinauer Dippel Dittmann Doll Donath Druecke Drydyk Dumstrey Dunn

Eberhardy Eckenfels Ehlenfeld Ehlers Ehley Eigenbeger Eisen Eisner Elliott Engel Engelhardt Engelman Englert Eschrich Essmann

Falkner Fehlhaber Feiman Fein Fick Fillmann Filter Fischel Fischer Flees Fleming Foss Fox Frank Freeman Freshl Freudenfeld Fried Friedberg Friedlander Friend Frisch Frister

Gardner Gauger Gaulke Gehle Geiger Geissler Ginster Glaessner Glicksman Goecks Goetsch Gold Goldberg Goldman Goldschmidt Goldsmith Gores Gottschalk Grady Graf Grams Grant Greenblatt Greenthal Gresbach Grober Gross Grossman Groth Gruell Gruenwald Guenburg Gurske Guttenstein

Haase Hachmeister Hackbarth Hadler Hahm Hall Hamilton Hamm Hamme Hammel Hammerschlag Hampel Hansen Hanson Harmeyer Harrington Harris Hart Hartman Hartstein Hasley Hassel Hauser Hayden Hecht Heiden Heil Heilbron Heiman Heims Heineman Heinrichs Heinz Heller Hemmer Henkel Hensch Herbst Herman Herzberg Herzfeld Hesse Hetzel Heuer Hickman Hinrichs Hintz Hirsch Hirschbein Hirschberg Hirsh Hoenigsberg Hofer Hoffmann Holzberger Honrath Horn Howard Huber Huelsbeck Hyman Hymen

Ische Israel

Jacobs Jaeger Jahnke Jansen Javore Jens Joerg Joern Joerres Johns Johnson Jonen Jones Jung Jungbluth

Kaestner Kahn Kaiser Kander Kann Katz Katzenstein Kau Kaufer Kaufman Kaul Kaumheimer Keller Kellner Kerber Kiehnau Kienzle Killelay Kinjerske Kirby Kirchhoff Kitchin Kitz Klaeser Klein Kleinhans Kleinow Kleist Knackert Knedle Knoll Koehn Koepsel Koerber Koeslag Kohlmetz Kohn Kojis Kopp Kozlik Kraemer Kramer Kraus Krause Krimmer Krueger Kruse Kuhnau Kupperberg Kuphal Kurt Kusel

Laherty Lamfrom Landau Landauer Lang Langschwager Lantry Last Laufenberg Laun Lawler Lederer Lee Leeser LeFeber Lehman Lemke Lentz Leonard Leu Leubuscher Levin Levy Leweck Lewin Linski Liske Loeb Lohman Loke Loomis Lotz Lubbe Luebke Luedtke Lueneberg Lustfield Luy Lynch

Maas Mack Madden Mahler Mahoney Malkin Malone Mandel Manhardt Mann Marcus Markert Marks Markwell Marquardt Mathieu Mautner Mayer McCrory Meiser Meissner Mendel Mendelson Messer Metz Meyer Mielke Milbrath Miller Mirgeler Mock Mohr Moll Moore Moran Morgan Morse Motz Mueller Multhauf Munk Murphy Myers

Neary Neisser Nelson Neubauer Neuman Neumann Newald Newbauer Newman Newman/Heinz Nickel Nielsen Noldin Noll Noonan Nowack

Oberndorfer Oppel Ott Otte

Pagels Palmersheim Parker Patek Pentony Pereles Peters Petri Petrosky Plasecki Pickel Plautz Plotkin Poblocki Polacheck Pollak Polster Polze Post Praefke Presser Pyzik

Qualmann

Rabe Rader Radke Raether Rantzow Rathke Rechnitzer Reel Rehberg Reichman Reif Reilly Rennicke Rhode Rice Rich Richardson Riemer Rindskopf   Rittberg Robinson Robran Rodman Roesel Rogers Rose Rosen Rosenbaum Rosenberg Rosenthal Ross Roth Rothschild Rubel Ruesch Rukeyser Runge Rust

Saalfeld Sagemuller Saltzstein Sattler Sax Schaefer Schalk Schatzman Scheftels Scheiber Scheife Scheifen Scherkkenbach Schiff Schiller Schindhelm Schlapmann Schlinger Schloemer Schmalzer Schmid Schmier Schmitt Schmitz Schneider Schoenfeld Schoenung Schok Schram Schreiber Schultz Schumacher Schuster Schwager Schwartz Seemann Seligman Sellmann Siewerth Silber Silberzahn Silverman Simbach Simon Singer Singles Smith Sohns Spitz Spitzer Sprader Springob St.Cyr Stabelfeldt Staudy Stearns Steffen Stein Steiner Stern Sterzinger Stewart Stollenwerk Strasburger Strass Strassberger Straus Strnad Stroebel Strong Stumes Sullivan

Teller Teweles Thal Thelen Thiel Thompson Thoms Thorn Tice Tiefenbronner Timm Timple Tinkham Tobin Toll Torbe Treible Tretow Trimborn

Uecker Ullman

VanBeck VanDenHeuvel VanLoghem Verfurth Voeks Voeltner Volkmann

Wachowlacz Wagner Walter Walters Warras Watry Weber Weidenfeld Weil Weinberg Weinstock Weiss Weitzer Wells Wellworth Werner Wettengel Wetzler White Whitehead Wiechmann Wiegert Wiegner Wiener Wiesner Wilk Williams Willms Wiltzius Wimmer Wink Winnecour Winter Wirth Wisniewski Witt Witte Wittmacher Woehlert Wolf Wolff Wollmer Woodcock Wrasse Wrecza Wussow Wutke

Yellick Young

Zekind Zellner Zingsheim Zifel Zweifel

2- Old Cemetery Burials of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Volume 2, by Elizabeth Doherty Herzfeld, CGRS, pub. 1997.

This work adds abut 9,500 more burial records to the information presented in Volume 1. Five more cemeteries are covered, with additions and corrections. Dates range from the late 1700s to the late 1900s.

List of Cemeteries:

1- West Granville Cemetery

2- St. Cathrine of Alexandria

3- St. Maichael's Catholic Cemetery

4- (Old) St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery

5- St. Peter's Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery

6- Evergreen Cemetery

7- Oak Hill Cemetery

8- St. Mary's Cemetery

Sample entry:

35 (the number that identifies the cemetery) DALEY Marion F b. 1890 d. 1961 w/Marion F & James Daley, Daniel, Stephen & Margaret Pakenham & June Mulligan; ctr

3- Genealogical Abstracts from the Wauwatosa News, 1899-1904, by Elizabeth Doherty Herzfeld, CGRS, pub. 1999.

This newspaper was named after an Indian Chief named "Wau-Wau-Tae-Sie."   The newspaper began in 1899. The abstracts for the years of 1899, 1902, 1903 and 1904. The abstracts include articles such as news, visits from friends & relatives, births, marriages, deaths, letters uncalled for at the post office and probate notices

Sample abstract:

(1899)
James Godfrey is home from Madison vacation.

(1902)
Mrs. Cook is visiting her daughter Mis Gertrude Cook at Pillsbury Academy in Minnesota.

(1903)
Mrs. Chas. T. Fisher, of North Ave., is in Kirksville, Mo. to attend her daughter, Miss Nellie Fisher, who is ill.

(1904 Death)
Miss Tina Madsen, age 27, died of consumption, Dec 13, 1903,  at the County hospital. She had been employed at Dr. Hathaway's home for several years. The undertaker was Judson, funeral from the M.E. church with interment at Wauwatosa Cemetery. Rev. Goldthorp officiated.

4- The Chronicles of Milwaukee, by A.C. Wheeler pub. 1861.

This engaging chronicle begins with Milwaukee's origins in the wilderness. To read this interest history is to lear about the growth pangs of a mid-western city. A surname index has been provided.

 

Chapters:

1- In which the intelligent reader makes progression by going backward nearly a century.

2- Some Accounts of the Early Traders at Mahn-a-wau-kie, and their Difficulties.

3- First Trading Post - Location of the Future City

4- Domestic Troubles in the Family of Pe-sha-no

5- The First Citizens.

6- The Slidell Family - The Murder of Ellsworth Burnett.

7- Adventure of Mrs. Purcell with the Indian.

8- The First Newspaper - Printers and Pioneers.

9- Tim Wooden - Hickory Bullets and Grey Wolves.

10- Revulsions of 1837.

11- Rapid Growth - Col. Walker - Experience of Gen. Crawford.

12- The Want of a Harbor - Mistakes in Locating the Harbor.

13- Caleb Wall Keeping a Hotel - Old Milwaukio House - Mr. Wall's Newspaper

14- The Milwaukie Courier - The Dreadful Newspaper War

15- Milwaukie in 1842 - Roads - The Fourth of July.

16- Manufactories - Roads & Railroads - Egbert Herring Smith.

17- Bridges - The West-Siders get out their Cannon.

18- Market Square - Further Action in Regard to Bridges.

19- Destruction of the Dam - Better Feelings.

20- The Charter - Incorporation of the City

21- Personal Reminiscences - The Proposed Harbor

22- Administrations of Upham and Walker - Police Force

23- The Glover Rescue Case - Booth's Arrest

24- The Churches - Catholic - Methodist - Congregational

25- Milwaukee Newspapers - German Press

26- The City Indebtedness

APPENDIX - Milwaukee in 1861

Surnames with at least 2 pages mentioned in the index:

Abert Ableman Aldrich Allvice Anderson Arnold Austin

Bantam Barber Beall Beck Bennett Biddle Bleyer Blodget Blossom Booth Brooks Brown Burdick Burnett Bryon

Cary Caswell Chapman Church Clyman Cole Comstock Cotton Cramer Crammer Crary Crawford Crocker Cross Curtis Cushman

D'Omro Davis Delanglade Deminge Domo Domschcke Doty Dousman Downer

Eggerton

Farnsworth Farwell Field Fillmore Fily Finkler Fitzdartmoor Fowler Fratney

Garland Glover Goodall Graham Green Gregory Grignon Gruenhagan Gruehagen

Hamilton Hatch Hathaway Hawkins Hill Holman Hotaling Howe Hull Hustis

Johnson Jones Judas Juneau

Keeler Keenan Kellogg Kilbourn King Kinzie Kneeland Kundig

Laframboise Lapham Lind Ludington Lynde

Madison Magone Martin McClure Merrill Miller Mitchell Miter Moore Murphy

Nichols Nihil Noonan

O'Rourke Oldbuck Owens

Page Paine Parsons Peshano Pettibone Phelps Pinckney Prentiss Purcell

Ragbaron Randall Reed Richards Richmond Robinson Rogers Rublee Ryan Rycraft

Schurz Scruple Sholes Slidell Smith Staples Starr Stein Stevens Sweet

Taylor Thomas Thompson Thorne Tiffany Tuttle Tweedy Tyler

Upham Upmann

Vancott Vieau Vliet

WaalWaal Wait Walker Wall Walworth Ward Weeks Wells Whiton Wilson Wolcott Wooden Wright Wunderly

5- History of the Territory of Wisconsin from 1836-1848, by Moses M. Strong AM, pub. 1885.

Great book for the Wisconsin researcher, this text examines the early history of Wisconsin, 1600s-1848. Chapters cover: the Langlade family; wars with the Fox Indians; Jonathan Carver's exploration; Green Bay, 1634-1836; Prairie Du Chien, 1680-1830; New York Indians; lead mines and Winnebago War, and the Black Hawk War.

Contents:

1- Early Explorations of "Florida and Louisiana" - 1512-1719

2- Wars with Fox Indians 1712-1746

3- The Langlade Family - 1743-1800

4- Jonathan Carver's Explorations - 1766 and 1767

5- Progress of Settlements in the Northwest, and Transfer to British Jurisdiction - 1705-1775

6- Under American Jurisdiction - 1787-1820

7- Green Bay - 1634-1896

8- Prairie Du Chien - 1640-1830

9- Chequamegon - Portage - Milwaukee

10- New York Indians - 1820-1839

11- The Lead Mines and Winnebago War - 1822-1828

12- The Black Hawk War - 1831- 1832

13- Civil Government - 1812 - 1834

14- Legislation previous to 1835.

15- Wisconsin in a Transition State - 1835-6

16- Organization of Wisconsin Territory.

17-29 Territory of Wisconsin - 1836-1848

30 - Milwaukee and Rock River Canal

About the CD

The books are presented as graphic images, so the user sees the works just as they were originally published. They are intended to look and function very much like "real" books, i.e., the user looks for entries of interest in the table o contents or index, and then turns to the page cited to scan for desired information. Although there are no electronic indexes, electronic bookmarks have been added which make it easy to navigate through the books, and to jump from one book to another. This CD is best viewed with monitor resolution 800x600 or higher. CD pub. 2000, has 1730 pages.

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