Milwaukee stories / edited by Thomas J. Jablonsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jablonsky, Thomas J.

Series:

Urban life series (Milwaukee, Wis.) ; no. 2.

Urban life series ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Anecdotes.

City and town life.

Milwaukee (Wis.)--History--Anecdotes.

Milwaukee (Wis.).

Milwaukee (Wis.)--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.

Milwaukee (Wis.)--Biography--Anecdotes.

Milwaukee (Wis.)--Social conditions--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Milwaukee's captivating evolution from a settlement blessed with nature's bounties to a mighty industrial workplace is presented through its people, places, and institutions. Culled from the publications of the Milwaukee County Historical Society, these articles provide intimate accounts of the area's original inhabitants, pioneering settlers such as Solomon Juneau, entrepreneurs who saw a prosperous future on the shores of Lake Michigan, ethnic and racial groups who envisioned themselves as part of that future, institutions such as hospitals and a veterans home designed to serve residents, and political leaders whose careers ranged from crook to guardian angel. Each thematic section is introduced by a short essay that supplies a context for the articles that follow. Photographs from the collections of the County Historical Society provide fleeting glimpses into yesterday's world. A collaborative effort of the Milwaukee County Historical Society and Marquette University, Milwaukee Stories brings home the adage that each one of us, great and small, contributes our individual piece to the development of local history. May each reader savor these lives from Milwaukee's past.

Contents:

Milwaukee Stories

Milwaukee Stories edited by Thomas J. Jablonsky

© 2005 Marquette University Press

Contents

Introduction by Steven M. Avella

1. Native American Milwaukee Introduction by Daryl Webb

Myths and Legends of Wisconsin Indians collected by Jeremiah Curtin edited and arranged by Harry H. Anderson

2. Milwaukee's Social &amp

Cultural History Introduction by Christopher Miller

Echoes from the Census by Robert Roesler

Magical Borchert Field by Thomas J. Morgan and James R. Nitz

Milwaukee and the Columbian Exposition of 1893 by Frank A. Cassell

Augie Kieckhefer: Milwaukee's Billiards Professional by Erwin W. Kieckhefer

Milwaukee's House Numbering Systems by Christopher P. Thale

3. Service Institutions in Milwaukee Introduction by Brigitte Charaus

The Normal School on Wells Street by Virginia A. Palmer

African-American Catholicism in Milwaukee: St. Benedict the Moor Church and School by Steven M. Avella

St. Mary's, Wisconsin's First Public Hospital by Msgr. Peter Leo Johnson

The Founding of Milwaukee Hospital-1863 by Henry C. Friend

A Place of Great Beauty, Improved by Man: The Soldiers' Home and Victorian Milwaukee by James Marten

Olmsted's Lake Park by Diane M. Buck

4. Race and Ethnicity Introduction by Daryl Webb

Precocious Reformers: Immigrants and Party Politics in Ante-Bellum Milwaukee by Kathleen Neils Conzen

Milwaukee German Immigrant Values: An Essay by Paul Woehrmann

Milwaukee's Poles, 1866-1918: The Rise and Fall of a Model Community by Anthony J. Kuznlewski

The Homebuilders: The Residential Landscape of Milwaukee's Polonia, 1870-1920 by Judith T. Kenny

Black Working Class, 1915-1925 by Robert E. Weems, Jr.

Northcott Neighborhood House by Fielding Eric Utz

5. Labor and Industry Introduction by John McCarthy.

The Lawyer and the Fur Trader: Morgan Martin and Solomon Juneau by Barbara Whalen

Foundations for Industrialization, 1835-1880 by Roger D. Simon

"Pick out Your Man-And Kill Him" The Riots of 1886 by Bernhard C. Korn

Milwaukee and Its Baby Bonds by Judge Max Raskin

Milwaukee Labor after World War II by Darryl Holter

6. Political Milwaukee Introduction by John A. Degnitz

King and Booth: Milwaukee Editors and the Politics of Transition, 1850-54 by Kevin J. Abing

Wisconsin and the Re-Election of Lincoln in 1864: A Chapter of Civil War History by Frank L. Klement

The Political Campaigns of Mayor David S. Rose by Joseph A. Ranney

Milwaukee's Socialist Mayors: End of an Era and Its Beginning by Frederick I. Olson

Daniel W. Hoan and Municipal Reform in Milwaukee, 1910-1920 by Robert C. Reinders

Milwaukee County Voting: A Declaration of Independents by Sarah C. Ettenheim.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-87462-956-X

1-4237-3357-6

OCLC:

614816152