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1848
Wisconsin joins the Union as the thirtieth state. Large-scale German
immigration to Wisconsin begins.
1851
First railroad opens, linking Milwaukee and Waukesha. Janesville
hosts the first state fair.
1854
Wisconsin abolitionists defy the Fugitive Slave Act. Those protesting
the Kansas-Nebraska bill meet in Ripon and create the Republican
Party.
1856
Margarethe Meyer Schurz opens the first kindergarten in Watertown.
Margarethe Meyer Schurz
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America's first kindergarten is now a historic
site maintained and operated by the Watertown Historic Society.
Office of School Services. |
Margarethe Meyer Schurz with
her husband Carl Schurz.
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1857
The first railroad is completed from Milwaukee to Prairie du Chien.
1860
Wisconsin's population reaches 775,881.
1861
The Civil War begins; Governor Alexander Randall calls for volunteers;
Camp Randall opens in Madison to train Union soldiers.
Cordelia A. Harvey.
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1863
Cordelia Harvey, widow of Governor Louis Harvey, meets with
President Lincoln in order to establish hospitals in the North
for wounded Civil War soldiers. The first of three hospitals
opens in Madison. After the war, it becomes an orphanage for
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1865
96,000 Wisconsin soldiers serve in Civil War, and 12,216 of them
die in the conflict.
1867
Increase Lapham publishes a report warning that overlogging
will destroy the state's forests. |
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Increase Lapham. Portrait by
Samuel Marsden Brookes.
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Laura Ingalls
Wilder is born on February 7, 1867 in a log cabin in Pepin County.
Frank Lloyd Wright is born in Richland Center in
southwestern Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867 (a date sometimes reported
as 1869.)
Christopher
Latham Sholes' daughter, Lillian, sits with one of his experimental
machines.
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1868
C. L. Sholes patents typewriter. |
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