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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Wisconsin. Official Website Jackson County was formed from Crawford County in 1853 and was named for President Andrew Jackson. Adjacent Counties Clark County Wood County Eau Claire County Trempealeau County Juneau County Monroe County La Crosse County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Juneau County, Wisconsin. Official Website Juneau County was established in 1857 and was named in honor of Solomon Juneau, an early French trader on the site of Milwaukee, and first mayor of that city. Adjacent Counties Adams County Columbia County Sauk County Wood County Jackson County Monroe County Vernon County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Portage County, Wisconsin. Official Website Portage County was created from the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and organized in 1844. It is named for the portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers; Portage County originally included the portage, but boundary changes detached the county from its namesake. Adjacent Counties Maratho...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Waushara County, Wisconsin. Official Website Waushara County was established by an act of the Wisconsin Legislature on February 15, 1851. It originally consisted of a single organized Town of Waushara. In 1852 the county achieved full organization. The county seat was first located at Sacramento and was relocated to Wautoma in 1854 ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. Official Website Outagamie County was created in 1851 and organized in 1852. "Outagamie," a French transliteration of the Anishinaabe term for the Meskwaki (Fox) Indians, meant "dwellers of other shore" or "dwellers on the other side of the stream," referring to their historic habitation along the St. La...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Menominee County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created from the northeastern portion of 7 townships of Shawano County and the Western 3 townships of Oconto County on July 3, 1959, in anticipation of the termination of the Menominee Indian Reservation in 1961. The reservation status was restored in 1973, and is now co-e...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Shawano County, Wisconsin. Official Website Its name is from a modified Ojibwa term meaning "southern"; it was the southern boundary of the Ojibwa nation. The federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Community (made up of Algonquian-speaking Mahican and Lenape), whose ancestors traditionally lived in the East along the Hudson River...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1851 and organized in 1853. It is named after the Waupaca River, a Menominee language name meaning 'white sand bottom', 'pale water', or 'tomorrow river'. For a complete list of Towns & Communities, please see Wikipedia . Adjacent Counties Shawano Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. Official Website Winnebago County was created in 1840 and organized in 1848. The name Winnebago is of Algonquin origin, with variations used by the Fox and Potowatomi to refer to the Fox River below Lake Winnebago, which sometimes got muddy and full of fish. It means 'people dwelling by the fetid or ill-...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Green Lake County, Wisconsin. Official Website Green Lake county was established in 1858 when it split from Marquette County. It is named for Big Green Lake. Adjacent Counties Fond du Lac County Dodge County Columbia County Marquette County Winnebago County Waushara County Cities, Villages and Towns
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Marquette County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1836 from the Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1848 and was named in honor of Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit explorer, who passed through this region in 1673. Adjacent Counties Green Lake County Columbia County Adams County Waushara C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Columbia County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1846 as part of the Wisconsin Territory. Adjacent Counties Marquette County Green Lake County Dodge County Sauk County Juneau County Adams County Cities, Villages & Towns Arlington Caledonia Cambria
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dodge County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created from the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and organized in 1844. Adjacent Counties Dane County Jefferson County Columbia County Green Lake County Fond du Lac County Washington County Waukesha County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created from Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and organized in 1845. It was named after President George Washington. Adjacent Counties Fond du Lac County Sheboygan County Ozaukee County Milwaukee County Waukesha County Dodge County Cities, Towns & Villages
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 ...
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...
This project is for those who are buried in Painesville Cemetery, Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. About the Chapel: The Painesville Chapel is a historic meeting hall built in 1852 by German immigrant Freethinkers in Franklin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. In the 1830s and 40s, immigrants from Wittenberg, Germany were a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1836 and was named after the Sheboygan River. Adjacent Counties Manitowoc County Calumet County Ozaukee County Washington County Fond du Lac County Cities & Villages Adell Cascade Cedar Grove Elkhart Lake Glenbeulah Howards Grove Ko...
Please add your profiles if the individuals lived in Calumet County, Wisconsin. Please make sure the profiles are public. The county's name originated from the word calumet, the French name for the ceremonial pipes used by Native Americans in councils on the east shore of Lake Winnebago. In the 1830s, the United States government relocated Native Americans from New York and New England to the...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1836 prior to Wisconsin's statehood and organized in 1848. It takes its name from a small river within its boundaries. The origin of this Indian word is variously given. The first constituent, "manito," is conceded by all to be the Indian word for spirit, or mys...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin. Official Website The Green Bay area was still under British control until the 1783 treaty formally ended the American Revolutionary War. Following the War of 1812, which in part was over disputes related to the border with Canada, the United States built Fort Howard on the Fox River in 1816 to pro...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Brown County, Wisconsin. Official Website Brown County is one of Wisconsin's two original counties, along with Crawford County. It originally spanned the entire eastern half of the state when formed by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818. It was named for Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown , a military leader during the War of 1812 . ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1852 and organized in 1859. Its Menominee name is Kewāneh, an archaic name for a species of duck. Adjacent Counties Door County Brown County Manitowoc County Benzie County, Michigan Manistee County, Michigan Cities, Villages & Towns Ahnapee Al...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Door County, Wisconsin. Official Website Door County's name came from Porte des Morts ("Death's Door"), the passage between the tip of Door Peninsula and Washington Island. The name "Death's Door" came from Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and published in greatly embellished form by Hjalmar Holand, described a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oconto County, Wisconsin. Official Website First visited by French explorers in the 17th century, Oconto County is among the oldest settlements in Wisconsin. Father Claude-Jean Allouez of the Roman Catholic Jesuit order said the first Mass in Oconto. Among the first settlers was Joseph Tourtilott, who explored much of the Oconto Riv...