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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Large knife presented to John F. Potter by the Republicans of Missouri, 1860. |
| Date: | 11 20 1880 |
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| Description: | The United States presidential election of 1880 was largely seen as a referendum on the Republicans' relaxation of Reconstruction efforts in the southern s... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Engravings of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates from the Democratic, Republican and Know Nothing parties for the Tuesday, November 4th, 185... |
| Community: | Columbus |
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| County: | Columbia |
| Historic Name: | Swarthout Drug Store |
| Reference Number: | 61745 |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Philetus Sawyer, congressman, U.S. Senator, and Oshkosh lumber baron (1816-1900). During the 1880s and 1890s Sawyer was one of a small group of conservati... |
| Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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| Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Giant knife presented to John Fox Potter by Missouri Republicans after his challenge to duel with a Virginia congressman, 1860. (Museum object #1957.112) |
| A New Vision for the United States |
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| Discover how a few key political issues in the 1850s gave birth to the Republican Party |
| A brief history of the Barstow-Bashford Affair of 1856. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Officer, Lawyer, 8th Wisconsin Governor |
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| Learn about the German born man who would become Wisconsin's 8th governor. This article includes links to original documents. |
| A Dishonest Democrat and a Radical Republican |
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| Learn about the election that was so close that Wisconsin briefly had two governors until one was exposed for tampering with ballots. |
| Newspaperman, Politician and Inventor |
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| Biography of newspaperman, a politician and typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Lumberman, Financier and Congressman |
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| Biography of Isaac Stephenson who was a lumberman, financier and congressman. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Officer, U.S. Congressman |
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| Brief biography of Civil War veteran and three term U.S. Congressman best remembered for disobeying orders to return fugitive slaves to their owners. |
| Documented and Legendary Accounts of Lincoln's Visits to Wisconsin |
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| Abraham Lincoln's visits to Wisconsin, documented and legendary. |
| Assimilation |
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| Discover how the government tried to assimilate Germans and Indians into their culture. |
| Wisconsin and the Civil War |
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| Use the writing of Marcus "Brick" Pomeroy to examine different opinions on the Civil War |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Ceremonial container made from a gourd, presented to Wisconsin Governor William R. Taylor, 1874. (Museum object #1993.53) |
| Two Lawyers Spur Abolitionist Reform and Universal Voting Rights |
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| Learn how Byron Paine and Halbert E. Paine used the power of law for radical abolitionist reform in mid-19th century Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Promenade dress worn by Hannah Billinghurst of Juneau, Wisconsin, 1857. (Museum object #1955.1449,A) |
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