EDWARD SALOMON was born in Stroebeck, near Halberstadt, Prussia. He graduated with a degree in natural history and philosophy from the University of Berlin in 1849. That same year, he…

LUCIUS FAIRCHILD was born in Kent, Ohio, but moved to Cleveland as an infant and to Madison, Wisconsin as a teen. In 1849, he went to California in search of…

CADWALLADER COLDEN WASHBURN was born and educated in Livermore, Maine. While working as a surveyor in Rock Island County, Illinois, he studied law and was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar…

WILLIAM R. TAYLOR was born in Woodbury, Connecticut. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by neighbors, who took him to live on a farm in New York. In…

HARRISON LUDINGTON was born in Kent, New York. At the age of twenty-four, he moved to Milwaukee, where he purchased a merchandising business with his uncle. Several years later he…

WILLIAM E. SMITH was born in Inverness, Scotland. His family moved to the United States in 1835, settling on land near Detroit that they farmed. In 1846, Smith began work…

JEREMIAH M. RUSK was born on a farm in Deerfield Township, Ohio, which he managed after his father's death. He married in 1849, and took his family in a covered…

Born in Munnsville, New York, WILLIAM DEMPSTER HOARD relocated to Oak Grove, Wisconsin in 1857. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Fourth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, which was…

GEORGE W. PECK was born in Henderson, New York and raised in Cold Spring, Wisconsin. After working as a journeyman printer, he became part owner of the Watertown Republican and later worked…

WILLIAM H. UPHAM was born in Westminster, Massachusetts. After completing his education in Racine, Wisconsin, he enlisted in what ultimately became Company F of the Second Wisconsin Infantry in 1861.…

EDWARD SCOFIELD was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. He abandoned his formal education at age thirteen to become a printer's apprentice at a newspaper in Indiana, Pennsylvania. After working in the…

Credited with beginning the work of Wisconsin's progressive movement, ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, SR. was born in Primrose, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, where he attended one…