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• Allis, Edward    b. May 12, 1824  d. April 1, 1889
  Businessman. Founder of Allis Chalmers. Entrepreneur and manufacturing innovator of steam engines, agricultural equipment, and heavy machinery. Graduating from Union College in Schenectady, New York, he moved to Wisconsin in 1846 and married Margaret Watson, eventually having twelve children. He first started in the leather tannery business in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and by 1854 had confined his business operations to banking and real estate. He purchased Milwaukee‚s Reliance Works in 1860...[Read More] (Bio by: Curt Orth)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Anneke, Mathilde    b. April 3, 1817  d. November 25, 1884
  Social Reformer, Suffragist. Born in Lerchenhausen, Westphalia, she moved to America in the mid-19th century and founded the first feminist newspaper in the United States in Milwaukee, which in the process, took harsh rebuke of male printers who organized against her. She became a staunch advocate of women's rights, gaining prominence for writing and editing the of stories of the times in poems. Liberal environment found the social and political condition times of African Americans which she...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Bading, Gerhard Adolph    b. August 31, 1870  d. April 11, 1946
  US Diplomat, Milwaukee Mayor. Born in Milwaukee, he studied medicine at Northwestern University and at Rush College in Chicago, where he took his MD in 1896. From 1901 to 1907 he taught at the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons. As Milwaukee Health Commissioner (1906 to 1910) he advocated more rigorous public health codes, including the licensing of all stores where food was prepared and sold. Bading was twice elected Mayor of Milwaukee, serving from 1912 to 1916; he ran as an...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
  Plot: Section 62, Block 1, Lots 2 and 3
   
• Becker, Sherburn M.    b. November 13, 1877  d. February 5, 1949
  US Mayor. Becker served as the Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1906 to 1908.
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
  Plot: Section 33
   
• Berger, Victor Luitpold    b. February 28, 1860  d. August 7, 1929
  US Congressman. Known as the "Father of American Socialism" for his role in founding the American Socialist Party with Eugene V. Debs.
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Best, Jacob  b. May 1, 1786  d. January 26, 1861
  Business Magnate. Jacob Best learned the brewer's trade in his hometown of Hesse Darnstadt, Germany, and then moved on to operate a small brewery in Mattenheim. In 1840, two of Best's four sons immigrated to America, settling in the Kilbourntown section of Milwaukee. They were joined by Jacob Best, his two younger sons and other family members in 1844. With his sons, Jacob Best opened the Emipre Brewery producing lager beer, wiskey and vinegar. As demand increased of light lager beer, the firm...[Read More] (Bio by: Charles Haig)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
  Plot: Section 8, Block 9, Lots 13 and 14
   
• Blatz, Valentine    b. October 1, 1826  d. May 26, 1894
  Businessman, Beer Magnate. Valentin Blatz, born to Casper Blatz, a brewer, in Miltenberg am Main, Bavaria, Germany, attended municipal schools until age 14 when he began an apprenticeship in his father's brewery. He began in 1844, to acquire additional experience at breweries in Augusburg, Wurzburg and Munich until 1848 when he emigrated from Bavaria to Buffalo, New York, where he worked for a year at Philip Born's brewery. Arriving in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1849, he became brewmaster at John...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
  GPS coordinates: 42.9990311, -87.9411469 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Breen, John   b. 1827  d. December 13, 1875
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Boatswain's Mate in the Union Navy. His citation reads "On board the USS Commodore Perry in the attack upon Franklin, VA., 3 October 1862. With enemy fire raking the deck of his ship and blockades thwarting her progress, Breen remained at his post and performed his duties with skill and courage as the Commodore Perry fought a gallant battle to silence many rebel batteries as she steamed down the Blackwater River." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
  Plot: Block 5, Grave 1930
   
• Brophy, John Charles    b. October 8, 1901  d. December 26, 1976
  US Congressman. He was elected to represent Wisconsin's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1947 to 1949.
  Mount Olivet Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Brown, James Sproat    b. February 1, 1824  d. April 15, 1878
  Civil War US Congressman, Milwaukee Mayor. He was elected to represent Wisconsin's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1863 to 1865. Previous to his Congressional term he served as Wisconsin State Attorney General from 1848 to 1850, and as Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1861. (Bio by: K)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Brown, Thomas Hoyt    b. 1839  d. 1908
  Milwaukee Mayor. He was involved in various mercantile pursuits including the Carriage Manufacturing Company. He served as 4th ward alderman and was elected president of the common council. He was first elected Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1880 and served a second term from 1888 to 1890. (Bio by: Katrina Lindeen)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
  Plot: Section 14, Block 4, Lots 3 and 6
   
• Bukant, Joseph 'Buckin' Joe'    b. October 31, 1915  d. February 9, 2007
  Professional Football Player. After graduating from Divernon High School, he went to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a two-time all-Midwest and all-Missouri Valley Conference fullback. Besides playing football, he also lettered two years in track and field. He was drafted in the second round by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1938. He played with the Eagles from 1938 to 1940 and with the Chicago Cardinals in 1942 and 1943, for a total of five seasons in the NFL. He then joined...[Read More] (Bio by: Mel Bashore)
  Valhalla Memorial Gardens, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Cameron, James   b. February 23, 1914  d. June 11, 2006
  Social Reformer. He founded America's Black Holocaust Museum. Born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, he moved with his family to Marion, Indiana, where, at age 16, he was wrongly convicted as an accessory in the 1930 murder of a white man. He narrowly escaped a mob lynching which claimed the lives of the two accused who were his high school friends. He was paroled in 1935. Then moved to Detroit, Michigan where he worked for Stroh's Brewing Company and attended Wayne State University. In Madison...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
  Holy Cross Cemetery & Mausoleum, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Cannon, Raymond Joseph  b. August 26, 1894  d. November 25, 1951
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Wisconsin's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1933 to 1939, but was defeated in 1938, and 1944. He also served as a Candidate for Justice of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court in 1930, and as a Candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1940, and 1942. (Bio by: K)
  Holy Cross Cemetery & Mausoleum, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Carpenter, Matthew Hale    b. December 22, 1824  d. February 24, 1881
  US Senator from Wisconsin. Born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter, the Vermont native attended West Point (1843 to 1845), studied law, and became a practicing attorney in Boston, Massachusetts in 1847. The following year he moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, where he changed his name to Matthew Hale Carpenter and served as District Attorney for Rock County (1850 to 1854). In 1858 he settled in Milwaukee, winning a reputation for tackling cases that involved important social issues of the day...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Cary, William Joseph    b. 1865  d. 1934
  U.S. Congressman. Elected to represent Wisconsin's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1907 to 1919.
  Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Chapelle, Dickey    b. March 14, 1918  d. November 4, 1965
  Photojournalist. When she was killed in Viet Nam, she was both the first war correspondent killed in that conflict, as well as the first American woman reporter to be killed in any conflict. Born Georgette Louise Meyer, she was attending MIT by the age of sixteen, taking aeronautical design classes. Later, she went to New York, where she met her future husband, Tony Chapelle. There she began working as a photographer for Trans World Airlines, also learning to fly a plane and to parachute...[Read More] (Bio by: Range Rider)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Crocker, Hans    b. 1815  d. 1889
  US Mayor. Crocker served as the Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1852. (Bio by: K)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
   
• Crosby, Edward G.   b. 1842  d. 1912
  Head of the Great Lakes Shipping Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He and his wife and daughter were passengers of the Titanic. His wife and daughter survived, but he did not.
  Cause of death: Titanic sinking
  Graceland Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
  Plot: Grave #14-40
   
• Cutler, Lysander    b. February 16, 1807  d. July 30, 1866
  Civil War Union Brevet Major General. Prior to the Civil War, he was a successful businessman and a former State of Maine Senator. In 1861, he was commissioned a Colonel in command of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry known as the "Iron Brigade". His regiment saw significant action at the Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg and he was promoted Brigadier General in the November 1862. Given command of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division I Corps, he led at the Battles of Chancellorsville...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
  Plot: Section 25, Block 16, Lot 2
  GPS coordinates: 42.9980812, -87.9449005 (hddd.dddd)
   

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