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Please add people who were born, lived or died in Richland County, Wisconsin. The county was created from the Wisconsin Territory in 1842 and organized in 1850. It is named for the high quality of its soil. Adjacent Counties Iowa County Sauk County Grant County Crawford County Vernon County For a complete list of communities, please see Wikipedia . Cities, Towns & Villa...
This project is for those who are buried in St. Francis Xavier Church Cemetery, located on 240th Avenue, Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Walworth County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1836 from Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1839. It is named for Reuben H. Walworth, an American lawyer, jurist and politician. Adjacent Counties Racine County Waukesha County Kenosha County McHenry County, Illinois Boone County, Illinois Rock C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Official Website Jefferson County was created in 1836 as part of Wisconsin Territory and was organized in 1839. Jefferson County was founded by "Yankee" settlers from New England and was named after Jefferson County, New York Adjacent Counties Dodge County Dane County Rock County Waukesha Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rock County, Wisconsin. Official Website Rock County was created in 1836 as a territorial county on December 7, 1836 from Milwaukee County and fully organized February 19, 1839. The county is named for the Rock River, which bisects the county from north to south. Adjacent Counties Green County Dane County Jefferson County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Iowa County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county organized under the Michigan Territory government in 1830. It was named for the Iowa tribe of Indians. Adjacent Counties Dane County Sauk County Green County Lafayette County Grant County Richland County Cities & Villages Arena Avoca Barneveld
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sauk County, Wisconsin. Official Website Sauk County was a New England settlement. The original founders of Sauk County consisted entirely of settlers from New England as well as some from upstate New York who had parents who moved to that region from New England shortly after the American Revolution. These people were "Yankee" sett...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Official Website Vernon County was renamed from Bad Ax County on March 22, 1862. Bad Ax County had been created on March 1, 1851. The name Vernon was chosen to reflect the county's green fields of wheat and to evoke Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. For a complete list of Towns & Communities, ple...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1854 and named for James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe. Adjacent Counties Jackson County Juneau County Vernon County La Crosse County Cities & Villages Cashton Kendall Melvina Norwalk Oakdale Sparta (County...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was established in 1851 and French explorers named the area for the game Indians played on the prairie. Adjacent Counties Jackson County Trempealeau County Monroe County Houston County, Minnesota Vernon County Winona County, Minnesota
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. Official Website French fur traders were the first Europeans to enter this land, traveling by river across the county. At the mouth of the Trempealeau River at its confluence with the Mississippi River, they found a bluff surrounded by water and called it La Montagne qui trempe à l’eau ("mountain stee...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pepin County, Wisconsin. Official Website Pepin County was formed in the year 1858. Both the town of Pepin (originally named North Pepin in 1856), and the village of Pepin were named after Lake Pepin The lake itself is likely named for one or more of the Pepin families from the French Canadian city of Trois-Rivières in Quebec, Canad...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Official Website Buffalo County, founded in 1853, is named for the Buffalo River, which flows from Strum to Alma, where it empties into the Mississippi River. The Buffalo River obtained its name from the French voyager Father Louis Hennepin, who named it Riviere des Boeufs in 1680. The first permanent sett...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Burnett County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1856 and organized in 1865. It was named in honor of Thomas Pendleton Burnett (Sept. 3, 1800 - Nov. 5, 1846), a genial and kind-hearted lawyer who was prominent during the territorial days of Wisconsin. Early European settlers were mostly immigrants from Norway...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1853 and was named for President James K. Polk, 11th president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Burnett County Barron County Dunn County St. Croix County Chisago County, Minnesota Washington County, Minnesota Cities & Villages
Please add profiles for those who were born in St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Official Website St. Croix County was created on August 3, 1840 by the legislature of the Wisconsin Territory. It was named after the river on its western border. Sources vary on the origin of the name; the St. Croix River may have been named after Monsieur St. Croix, an explorer who drowned at the mouth of the river ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dunn County, Wisconsin. Official Website Dunn county was founded in 1854 from Chippewa County and organized in 1857. It is named for Charles Dunn, the territory's first chief justice. Adjacent Counties Barron County Chippewa County Eau Claire County St. Croix County Polk County Pepin County Pierce County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. Official Website Eau Claire county was originally set off as the Town of Clearwater in Chippewa County in 1855. The name was changed to the Town of Eau Claire on March 31, 1856. The entire town was separated as Eau Claire County by an act of the Wisconsin State Legislature on October 6, 1856. Adjacen...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chippewa County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was founded in 1845 from Crawford County, then in the Wisconsin Territory, and organized in 1853. Adjacent Counties Rusk County Clark County Eau Claire County Dunn County Barron County Cities, Villages & Towns Anson Arthur Auburn Birch Creek Bloomer ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rusk County, Wisconsin. Official Website Founded in 1901, Rusk County was originally named Gates County after Milwaukee land speculator James L. Gates. It was renamed Rusk County in 1905 after Jeremiah M. Rusk, governor of Wisconsin and the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. It was formed out of the northern portion of Chippewa Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washburn County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1883 and was named for Governor Cadwallader C. Washburn. Adjacent Counties Douglas County Bayfield County Sawyer County Rusk County Barron County Burnett County Cities, Villages, Towns & Communities Baronett | Bashaw | Bass Lake | Beaver Brook |...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Douglas County, Wisconsin. Official Website Douglas County, named after Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas, was established on February 8, 1854, from the larger La Pointe County, Wisconsin, and the City of Superior was immediately selected as the county seat. A portion of the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation is located within Dougla...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bayfield County, Wisconsin. Official Website Originally, in 1848 it was named La Pointe County, Wisconsin . After Douglas and Ashland Counties were split off from the original La Pointe County, the remainder was renamed Bayfield County on April 12, 1866. Bayfield County is home to the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa , a br...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sawyer County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county is named for Philetus Sawyer, a New England man who represented Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in the 19th century. Logging began in the late 1850s. Loggers came from Cortland County, New York, Carroll County, New Hampshire, Orange County, Vermont ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oneida County, Wisconsin. Official Website Oneida County was formed in 1887 and was named after the indigenous Oneida tribe, one of the five nations of the Iroquois. Adjacent Counties Forest County Vilas County Langlade County Lincoln County Price County Cities & Towns Cassian Crescent Enterprise Hazelhurst ...