Wisconsin Genealogy Resources
Biographies and
Name Indexes
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Ada James papers and correspondence (1915-1918)
- Aikens, Andrew J. Men of Progress, Wisconsin: A Selected
List of Biographical Sketches and Portraits of the Leaders in
Business, Professional and Official Life, Together with Short
Notes on the History and Character of Wisconsin. Milwaukee:
Evening Wisconsin Co., 1897.
- Aucutt, Donald M. Van Ryn: Architect in Central
Wisconsin at Century's Turn. Central/Northwoods
Wisconsin Architectural Museum, 1992.
- Biographical
Histories - Wisconsin Biography Project - An index of
biographies found in historical publications statewide.
- Bird, Miriam Y. Town of Milwaukee Families from 1850.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Genealogical Society, 1989.
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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin ~ 1901 -
submitted by Tina Vickery
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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin ~ 1907 - submitted
by Lori Niemuth
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Brown, Victoria. Uncommon Lives of Common Women: The Missing
Half of Wisconsin History. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin
Women's Network, 2004.
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Bunny Berigan, Fox Lake's Own
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Byron Paine - Wisconsin Lawyer
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Cannon, Peter A. Members of the Wisconsin Legislature
1848-1999. Madison, Wisconsin: The Legislative Reference
Bureau, 1999.
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Chrysostom Verwyst, Wisconsin Pioneer Missionary -
Ancestry.com
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Crow, William L. Wisconsin Lives of National Interest:
Sketches of some Prominent People Identified with the History of
the Badger State. Appleton, Wisconsin: C.C. Nelson
Publishing Co.l, 1937.
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Cyrus Woodman: A Character Sketch, - submitted by
Tina Vickery.
- Dexheimer, Florence Chambers, compiler. Sketches of
Wisconsin Pioneer Women. Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin: W.D.
Hoard, n.d. Includes the biographies of many noted women in the
stated. Indexed.
- Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography. Madison: State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960.
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Dictionary of Wisconsin History. This Dictionary explains
more than 8,000 terms (people, places, things, and events) used
in writings about Wisconsin history. Included are more than
2,000 brief lives of famous Wisconsin people and many
not-so-famous ones.
- Dow, Wentworth. Civil War Diaries of Wentworth Dow
Private, Company E. 16th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry of
Volunteers, (Adams County Rifles). Walnut Creek,
California: Gerald Wayne Dow, 1991.
- A Few Good Men of Wisconsin: Including
Biographical Sketches and Early County Histories.
Janesville, Wisconsin: Origins, 1995.
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Grant County, Wisconsin Biographies
- Gregory, John Goadby. Southeastern Wisconsin: A History
of Old Milwaukee County. 4 volumes. Chicago: S.J. Clarke
Publishing Co., 1932. Contains historical information in volumes
1-2 and biographical information in volumes 3-4. Index in each
volume.
- Gregory, John Goadby. Southwestern Wisconsin: A History
of Old Crawford County, 4 volumes. Chicago: S.J. Clark Pub.
Co., 1932. Contains historical information in volumes 1-2 and
biographical information in volumes 3-4. Index in each volume.
- Geogory, John Goadby. West Central Wisconsin: A History
of "Old Carver Tract". (Chippewa County) 4 volumes. Chicago:
S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1932. Contains historical
information in volumes 1-2 and biographical information in
volumes 3-4. Index in each volume.
- Hamilton, Charles C. The North Woods Journal of
Charles C. Hamilton: An Englishman in Wisconsin's Lumber Camps,
1892-1893. Rudolph, Wisconsin: River City Memoirs, 1992.
- Jensen, Joan M. Calling This Place Home: Women on the
Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925. Minnesota Historical Society
Press, 2006.
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John Scott Horner: A Biographical Sketch [WLHN]
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Kohler, Ruth Miriam De Young. The Story of Wisconsin Women.
Kohler, Wisconsin: Committee on Wisconsin Women for the 1948
Wisconsin Centennial, 1948.
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Korean War Not Forgotten: Stories from Korean War Veterans.
Weston, Wisconsin: D.C. Everest Area Schools, 2003.
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Memoirs of Private Thomas Newton, Co I 6th Wisconsin
- Moranz, John. Men of Achievement in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: John Moranz Associates, 1946. A source
including biographies of successful businessmen of the 20th
century. Indexed.
- Nelke, David I. Columbian Biographical Dictionary and
Portrait Gallery.... Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1895.
- Nils Fornell, Wisconsin pioneer / edited by Cleora
Fornell, Gladys Fornell, Irma Fornell. New York : C. Fornell,
c1975.x, 167 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Northwest History and Men of Progress 1901.
Ancestry.com. This database contains a history of the Great
Northwest with "Northwest" being the states of Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming,
Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. It also contains biographical
sketches and portraits of the more prominent and representative
people of those states.
- Notable Men of Wisconsin. Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox
Co., 1974.
- Ouimette, Helen E. Country Catalog of Memories: A
Childhood on a German-American Farm in the Late 1920's and 30's.
Neillsville, Wisconsin: H.E. Ouimette, 1986.
- Patterson, Betty, 1919- Some Pioneer Families of
Wisconsin : An Index / edited by Betty Patterson. Madison :
Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, 1977-<1987 > v. <1-2 >. A
bicentennial project involving certificates given by the Society
for proof of an ancestor's settlement within the state. Pioneer
certificates were given if the ancestor arrived by 1850. Century
certificates were given for ancestors in Wisconsin 100 or more
years. Indexed in two sections: settlers and applicants. A third
volume was planned for 2001.
- Quaife, Milo Milton. Wisconsin: Its History and Its
People 1634-1924. 4 volumes. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing
Co., 1924. Volumes 1-2 contain historical information. Volumes
3-4 contain biographical sketches. Indexed by volume.
- Reed, Parker McCobb. The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin:
History and Biography. Milwaukee: P.M. Reed, 1882.
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The Reminiscences of Lucien B. Caswell (1827-1919) — Wisconsin
pioneer and civic leader
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Rock County, Wisconsin Pioneer Index of Earliest Families
through 1870.
Welcome to the Pioneers Project Index Page of
the Rock County Genealogical Society. Here you can view key
information abstracted from the full-text files of Rock Pioneers
submitted to the Rock Co., WI Pioneers Project. These full-text
files contain much more information, often family group sheets,
pedigree charts and photos of those pioneer ancestors submitted
by family researchers whose evidence has met the RCGS
requirements to establish that their ancestor lived in Rock
County in 1870 or before. Check back periodically as the Pioneer
Index grows each month.
- Ship
Captain's Biography Index
- Soldiers' and Citizens' Album of Biographical Record (of
Wisconsin): Containing Personal Sketches of Army Men and
Citizens Prominent in Loyalty of the Union: Also a Chronological
and Statistical History of the Civil War and a History of the
Grand Army of the Republic: With Portraits of Soldiers and
Prominent Citizens. 2 vols. Bethesda, Maryland: University
Publications of America, 1993. 19 microfiche.
- Some Pioneer Families of Wisconsin: An Index. 2
volumes. Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of
Wisconsin. A bicentennial project of the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin to index pioneer families arriving by 1850.
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Collections.
31 volumes. Madison, Wisconsin: The Society, 1854-1931. Includes
a variety of materials from the early acquisitions of the
Society. Biographical sketches, census information, settlements,
church records, war information, etc. Volumes 1-20 are indexed
in Vol. 21. Volumes 22-31 each contain just one series of
records such as a journal or a convention, and are indexed
individually.
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Subject Catalog
of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin. 23 volumes. Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Publishing, 1971. These volumes contain an actual copy
of the subject card file for this library.
- The Tragedy
of the Civil War; The Slagg Family of Wisconsin
- United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait:
Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men: Wisconsin Volume.
Chicago: American Biographical Pub., 1877.
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UW-Stout Veterans Short biographies of known veterans from
WWI, WWII, Korean War and Vietnam conflict who attended Stout.
University of Wisconsin-Stout, University Library.
- Usher, Ellis B. Wisconsin: Its Story and Biography,
1848-1913. 8 volumes. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.
Volumes 1-3 give the history of Wisconsin. Volumes 4-8 have
biographical sketches of prominent people. Indexed in Volume 1.
- Walden, Blanche L. (Blanche Lea), b. 1892. Pioneer
Families Of The Midwest / by Blanche L. Walden. Baltimore :
Clearfield Co., 1998. 3 v. in 1 (160 p.) : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
- Waterstreet, Darlene E. Biography Index to the Wisconsin
Blue Books. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Badger Infosearch, 1974.
Supplement, 1974-85, 1986. Alphabetical list of the names
of anyone having served in the Wisconsin Legislature during the
period covered. Sketches then can be checked in the Blue Books.
These biographies often give the place of birth as well as other
family information. Many ordinary citizens were elected to
represent their community.
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Wesson Miller, Wisconsin Methodist Minister - Ancestry.com
- Who's Who in Wisconsin, A Biographical Dictionary of
Leading Men and Women of the Commonwealth. Chicago: Larkin,
Roosevelt and Larkin, 1947. An alphabetical listing of short
sketches on many of the leading men and women in business in the
20th century.
- Wisconsin
Attorneys Listed in Graft's Legal Directory 1908 - 09
- Wisconsin Biographical Dictionary. St. Clair
Shores, Michigan: Somerset Publishers, 1999.
- Wisconsin
Biography Index and Biography Exchange
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Wisconsin Biographies
- Wisconsin
Biographies Project
- The Wisconsin
Biography Project
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Wisconsin Genealogy Index.Search for pre-1907 Vital Records
(VR), including birth, death, and marriage records as well as
for 150,000 Wisconsin Name Index (WNI) records, including
biographical sketches, obituaries, and newspaper articles
published before 2000.
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Wisconsin Government Officers in 1903
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Wisconsin Historical Society - Wisconsin Name Index -
Search more than 100,000 obituaries, personal sketches, and
other short biographies of Wisconsin people.
- Wisconsin
Local History & Biography Articles - Historical and
biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin
Historical Society in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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Wisconsin Necrology. This index is available as part of the
Wisconsin Genealogy Index.
- Wisconsin Necrology. 8 reels. Madison, Wisconsin:
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1846-1958.
- Wisconsin Necrology Index. 4 volumes Ashland,
Wisconsin: Northwest Library System, n.d. An index to the
Wisconsin Necrology, which is a collection of obituaries,
compiled by the State Historical So 4 volumes Ashland,
Wisconsin: Northwest Library System, n.d. An index to the
Wisconsin Necrology, which is a collection of obituaries,
compiled by the State Historical Society. Index Vol. 1 includes
1846-1919; Vol. 2 includes 1921-1932; Vol. 3 includes 1932-1941;
and Vol. 4 includes 1941-1944. Each volume is divided into
sections covering a short number of years. This requires the
checking of several sections in each volume.
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Wisconsin Pioneer Experience. The Wisconsin Pioneer
Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters,
reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled
and built Wisconsin during the 19th century.
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Wisconsin School Superintendents and Normal School Principals
1907
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WPA Life Histories from Wisconsin - Manuscripts from the
Federal Writer's Project, 1
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WPA Life Histories from Wisconsin