Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Official Website Known as forested and prairie land, the region was first home to Indigenous tribes like Menomonie, Ojibwe (Chippewa), Potawatomi, and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) who practiced agriculture and trade. In 1836, Native American tribes formally lost title to the land when treaties were disregarded, a...
Highland Memorial Park was started in 1928 by a group of people from West Allis. In 1947, E. Glen Porter, Sr. joined the company and in 1951 Mr. Porter, Sr. and his wife Charlotte Porter purchased the cemetery. Dr. E. Glen Porter and his wife Kay F. Porter joined the company in 1964. E. Glen Porter III joined in 1984 and his wife Phyllis A. Porter joined in 1997. The Porter family continues to ...
This cemetery is located on 13235 West Capitol Drive, Brookfield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave Billion Graves
St. John's Military Academy (SJNMA) was founded in 1884 as St. John's Military Academy (SJMA) in Delafield, Wisconsin, by the Rev. Sidney T. Smythe as a private, college preparatory[1] school. In 1995, Northwestern Military and Naval Academy (NMNA) in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, merged with St. John's Military Academy to become St. John's Northwestern Military Academy on the Delafield campus. And, ...
This project is for those buried in Ottawa Cemetery, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave
North Prairie Cemetery, located in North Prairie, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, is an active cemetery established circa 1838. The date of the earliest burial was 1838. The North Prairie Cemetery Association was incorporated September 30, 1862. A fire destroyed the cemetery records before 1899. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Sunnyside Cemetery was established circa 1841, the date of the earliest known burial. Land for the cemetery was donated by Reverend Rufus Cheney in an area called Prospect Hill. The Sunnyside Cemetery Association began in 1887. It is located in New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Wikipedia The University of Wisconsin–Waukesha County is a two-year college located in Waukesha, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. A campus of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, it is part of the University of Wisconsin System. Like the other UW Colleges' campuses, UW-Waukesha's land and buildings belong to a local government unit, in this case Waukesha County. As part of the local-state par...
Wikipedia =Carroll University is a college located in Waukesha in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Established in 1846, Carroll was Wisconsin's first four-year institution of higher learning. Carroll University is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Its approximately 130 acre campus contains 19th century homes, facilities, and residences for over 3,500 stud...
This project is for those buried in St. Clare Cemetery, North Lake, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. This active Catholic cemetery is located on the north side of Highway 74, just east of North Lake Village, about 1/2 mile from Highway 83, Section 15, Merton Township. The cemetery was established in the early 1920s, but the first burial here was not until 1928. The congregation began in 1916 and t...