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Note: Italicized numbers refer to illustrations and American Plow Company, 143 auditorium: in Armory, 129; calls for city, 42, 66, 79, maps; biographical sketches are indicated by bold - American Sanitary Engineering Company, 164 210, 215, 226, 228, 239, 240, 240, 241; in Gisholt faced numbers. American Shredder Company, 142 Machine Company, 100; land set aside for, 95; at American Tobacco Company, 167 Monona Lake Assembly, 105; in Woman’s Club Adams, Charles Kendall, 94, 119, 121, 123 , 128 , 128 , 129, Amerika (newspaper), 100 building, 120. See also Monona Terrace Community 130, 132, 162, 197, 238 Amherst College, 238 and Convention Center Adams, Henry Cullen, 20, 103 , 108, 112, 141, 146 Anderson, Rasmus B., 83, 100, 123 Auditorium Committee, 240 Adams, John, 103 Angle Worm Station, 55, 81, 84, 85 automobile traffic, 116, 179, 183, 184, 190, 199, 200, 210, Adams, Mary Barnes (Mrs. Charles Kendall), 120, 128 animals: city garbage eaten by, 229, 245; in Madison 215, 217, 223, 226, 228, 246. See also gas stations Adams Hall, 238 streets, 15, 20, 23, 51, 54, 61, 76, 84, 107; on UW Avenue Hotel, 110, 111, 168, 176 Adamson, John (“Big Jack”), 126, 126 campus, 60 Aylward, John, 126 Advance Thresher Company, 136, 136 Anthony, Susan B., 97 African Americans: assertions about, 222; churches for, Antiquities of Wisconsin (Lapham), 26 B. B. Clarke Beach and Park (formerly Monona Lake 140, 141, 171; first, in Madison, 54, 54; in Madison Anti-Saloon League, 198 Park), 62, 144, 177, 241 schools, 62; prejudice against, 105, 220, 238, 245; Appleton (Wisconsin), 134, 194 Babcock, Stephen, 13, 156 segregation of, in Madison, 122, 195; songs of, 62; Arboretum, 112, 179, 184, 190, 210, 211, 212, 215, 236, 244, Bacon Block, 40, 45, 46, 54 suffrage for, 20, 54, 117; UW building named for, 245, 249; dedication of, 249; tribute to Michael Bacon Commercial College, 21, 40 238; UW scholarships for, 147; whites performing Olbrich at, 243, 243 Badger Broadcasting Company, 246 as, 42, 79, 220 Argus (newspaper), 14, 16, 17, 36, 117 Badger Bus depot, 102 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 171 Argus Building, 16, 21 Badger State Shoe Company, 158 Agricultural Chemistry Building, 162 Armel, Oliver, 3 Badger yearbook, 220 Agricultural Hall, 60. See also South Hall Armory/Gymnasium, 72, 99, 111, 127, 128, 128, 129, 129, Baker, Henry, 156, 157 Agudas Achim synagogue (Greenbush), 57, 141, 166 142, 147, 156, 162, 203, 237 Baker-Mason Block, 67 Ahavath Achim congregation, 57 Army of the Tennessee, 147 Baldwin Street, 154 Ainsworth, Henry Clay, 35 Arndt, Charles, 15 Baltzell, John R., 69, 71, 110 airport: municipal, 211, 238 Arthur, Chester, 47 Baltzell, Virginia Robbins, 69 alcohol regulation: in early Madison, 14–15; in 1870s Askew Brothers, 113 Bank of Madison, 57, 199 Madison, 73; in 1880s Madison, 90, 96–98, 116; in Assembly Hall (later, Music Hall), 52, 72, 73, 89, 91, 97, Bank of Wisconsin, 176, 180 1890s Madison, 117, 126, 135, 140; in 1900s Madison, 162 banks, 50, 57, 100. See also names of specific banks and 156, 164, 206, 210; in 1920s Madison, 152, 198, 210, Associated Charities, 186, 188, 224. See also Public bankers 211, 217, 220–23, 238; and Madison City Hall, 42, 44, Welfare Association Baptist Church, 21, 156 78; on Sundays, 23, 78, 79, 96–98, 116, 198, 199. See Associated Press, 202, 205 Baraboo (Wisconsin), 85, 94 also breweries; taverns Association of Commerce, 180, 230, 240, 249. See also Barbano, Francesco, 187 Alford, Jabe, 68, 113, 127, 209 Board of Commerce; Chamber of Commerce Bardeen, Charles, 162 Algonquian people, 218 Astor, John Jacob, 12 Bardwell, Richard, 234, 236 Allen, Elizabeth, 12 Athenian Literary Society, 117 Bareis, Alfred, 110 Allen, Margaret Loring Andrews (Mrs. William Atkinson, Henry, 5 Barnard Hall, 162 Francis), 61, 62, 120 Attic Angels Association, 129, 186, 188; history of, 104, Barnbrock, Henry, 186, 187 Allen, William Francis, 62 117; and hospital development, 154; nursing home Barnes, Frank, 35, 55, 84 , 85 Allen Street, 62 run by, 98, 104; as a term, 47, 104 Barnes, Volney, 236 Alliant Energy, 215 Atwood, David, 13, 25, 31, 36, 56, 56 , 91, 117, 206; Barry, Patrick J., 225, 245 Allis, Frank W., 124 downtown holdings of, 31; home of, 110, 111, 120, 121, Barrymore Theatre, 232 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of 168; and Schenk-Atwood neighborhood, 133; on Barry Park, 29, 167, 225, 241. See also Bog Hollow North America, 201 school board, 58 Barstow, William, 36, 37 American City Planning Institute, 214 Atwood, Elizabeth (later, Mrs. E. P. Vilas), 56, 120 Bartholomew, Harland, 214–15 American Exchange Bank, 201, 205. See also German- Atwood, Julius P., 36, 37 Bartlett, Seth, 244 American Bank Atwood, Mary Louise, 56, 120, 120, 121, 124, 149 Bascom, Florence, 72, 75 American House, 13, 15, 18, 19, 23, 35, 40, 41 Atwood Avenue, 25, 25, 56, 134, 143, 159, 160, 204, 211. See Bascom, John, 54, 61, 69, 72, 72, 73 , 74, 97, 98, 99, 178, Americanization classes, 186, 224, 225 also Olbrich Park; Schenk’s Corners neighborhood 197; as prohibitionist, 96–97, 117, 156; residence of, American Legion, 238 Atwood-Buck House, 17 123; signature of, 94; on “Wisconsin Idea,” 73, 162

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Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall): additions to, 128; boathouses, 85, 89, 113, 114, 226, 240; in Brittingham Bryant, Edwin E., 47 , 104, 117, 136 built on former Indian mound, 26; construction of, Park, 148–49, 153, 175, 176, 177, 182; proposal for, on Bryant, Elva, 104 35, 44; dome of, 60, 140, 194, 195, 197; in 1860–63, 45, Yahara River, 145; Wright’s designs for, 109, 111, 113, Bryant, George E., 47 , 48, 98 60; in 1871–79, 71, 74; in 1880–84, 97; in 1895, 127; in 118, 118–19, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218 Bryant, Mary, 104 1908, 140, 162; fire in, 60, 177, 195; Lincoln statue at, Bog Hollow, 29, 89, 167, 241. See also Barry Park Buchanan, James, 163 148, 163; naming of, 72; in 1915, 194; views from, 47, Bohemian immigrants, 161 Buell, Charles and Martha, 131 49, 61, 131, 132 Bohrod, Aaron, 148 buildings: first, built by whites in Madison area, 3, 13, Bascom Hill, 12, 15, 22, 29, 66, 239; 1858 view from, 22, Bolz, Adolph C., 201 13–17, 43, 43; number of, in 1850s, 22, 23. See also 34, 46; wooden gym on, 129 Bonanza Prairie Breaker, 100 names of specific buildings and blocks Bascom Theatre, 238 bond issues, 39, 144, 147, 150, 151, 178, 185, 193, 210, 215, Bull, Ole, 42, 83, 123, 152 Bashford, Coles, 36 226, 229, 234, 236, 240, 241. See also Liberty Bonds Bull, Sarah Thorp, 83 Bashford, Florence Taylor, 124 Bowen, James Barton, 25, 68 , 68, 75, 91, 154, 166, 200; Bull, Storm, 34, 119, 141, 152 , 157 Bashford, Robert M., 13, 41, 63, 68, 103, 119, 124 , 155, 178; “Elmside” mansion of, 68, 108, 166 Bullard, Clarence, 223 and Camp Randall land, 94, 130; home of, 123, 124 Bowen, Susan. See Ramsay, Susan Bowen Bunn, Ernest, 234 Bashford, Sarah Fuller. See Fuller, Sarah Bowen Addition, 32, 142, 155, 171 Burdick, Elisha, 30, 81, 108 Bassett neighborhood, 22 Bow Ties Club, 223 Burgess, C. F., 200 Bassett Street, 29, 179, 215 Boyd, James, 154 Burgess Battery Company, 177, 200, 204, 208, 230, 230 Battle of Bad Axe, 5 Bradley Memorial Hospital, 186 Burke township, 211, 238 Battle of Wisconsin Heights, 5 Brady, Matthew, 50 Burns Agency (Detroit), 192 Bauer, A. E., 98 Braley, Berton, 196 Burr Jones Field, 149, 149 Beaver Insurance building, 176, 185, 189, 212, 219, 241, Brandenburg, Oscar D., 117, 124, 136 Burrows, George B., 79, 119, 123, 141, 146 252 Braxton, Gay, 186, 224, 224 , 225 Burrows Park, 146 Bedford Street, 29, 89, 102, 102, 104, 225 Brayton, Aaron, 207 buses, 190, 190, 216. See also streetcars Beecroft, W. G., 240 Brayton, Louisa M., 13, 17 Butler, Noble, 30 beets. See U.S. Sugar Company Brayton, Maria, 17 Butler Street, 13, 17, 58, 90, 169 Behrend, J. H., 229 Brayton School, 13, 17, 125, 169 Butterfield, Consul, 37, 104 Bellamy, Ralph, 164 Brearly Street, 24, 52, 63, 103, 200 Butts, Porter, 220, 237 Bellevue Apartments, 176 Breckheimer, Mathias, and brewery, 78, 106, 135, 138 Bell Telephone Exchange, 75, 136 Breese, Sidney, 94 Cady, Jeremiah, 120 Belmont (Wisconsin), 8, 10–12, 19 Breese Stevens Field, 94, 179, 211, 226, 229, 239 Calhoun, John, 25 Belmont Hotel, 153, 185, 189, 211, 212, 239, 252. See also Breese Terrace, 49, 74, 94, 131, 211 Campbell Street, 236, 243 YWCA Breitenbach, Jakob, 112 Camp Douglass, 231 Beloit and Madison Railroad, 53 breweries, 25, 25, 49, 62, 78, 78, 96, 96–97, 101, 106, 135, campgrounds, 105, 105 Beloit Fairies baseball team, 239 138, 143, 156, 159, 193, 199, 200, 207; closing of, dur- Camp Madison (CCC), 249 Bernhardt, Sarah, 122 ing Prohibition, 198, 206, 217; German ownership Camp Randall, 168; bleacher collapse at, 196; in Civil Bethel Lutheran Church, 100, 121, 171 of, 66 War, 33, 35, 45, 48, 48–50, 49, 78; land for, 12, 87, 94, Bethel Parish Shoppe, 86, 100, 121 Brigham, Ebenezer, 3, 34 111, 124, 128; Lindbergh at, 211, 238; on Madison Beye, Cudworth, 145 Brittingham, Mary Clark, 148 map, 47; new, 177, 196, 196; proposals to move, 130; Bickel, Fred, 220 Brittingham, Thomas E., Jr., 148, 220 as UW athletic field, 87, 130, 130, 131, 142, 165. See bicycle trails, 133, 148, 179 Brittingham, Thomas E., Sr., 34, 123, 148, 148 , 148, 163, also fairgrounds: state Big Bug Hill, 22, 53. See also Mansion Hill 188, 209; and Neighborhood House, 186, 224 Canadian immigrants, 141 Bird, Augustus A., 13, 14, 16–19, 24, 36, 39, 39 Brittingham and Hixon Lumber Company, 119, 148 canals, 10, 11, 25, 25 Bird, Mr. and Mrs. George, 17 Brittingham Park: bathhouse for, 176, 177, 182; Canal Street. See Franklin Street; Hancock Street Birdsall, Don, 197 boathouses in, 148, 149, 153, 175, 176, 177, 182; Cantor, Eddie, 122 Birge, Edwin A., 61, 72, 73, 99, 122, 197 , 238, 244; home development of, 141, 148, 153, 166, 171; Indian Capital Brewery, 78 of, 128; non-university service of, 150, 162 artifacts near, 26; Ku Klux Klan rallies in, 222; plat Capital City Bank, 95 Black Hawk, 3, 5, 26 for, 148; turnaround for, 166, 212 Capital House, 13, 21, 27, 36, 46, 106, 138 Black Hawk War (1832), 3, 5, 26 Brittingham Pumping Station, 177 Capital State Bank, 57 blacks. See African Americans Brooks Addition, 32, 32 The Capital Times: city auditorium design in, 240; on Blaine, John J., 222, 239, 243, 244 Brooks Street, 186 Ku Klux Klan, 222, 223; on Nakoma’s annexation, Blair, Sally, 37 Broom Street, 55, 109, 121, 199; schools on, 58, 89, 124, 245; on Neighborhood House, 224; radio stations Blair Street, 5, 65, 66, 102, 109, 169, 205 168 associated with, 220, 246; on Wright’s city Blied, Frank C., 216, 247 Brown, Charles E., 4, 26, 155, 190, 218, 244 boathouse’s razing, 218; and WW I, 202, 203, 205, Blooming Grove (Wisconsin), 143, 199, 216; resorts in, Brown, Charles N., 117, 119, 123 206–7. See also Evjue, William T. 67, 81, 81, 111, 134 Brown, Mrs. Frank, 119 Capitol: approaches to, 138, 168, 174, 184; 1883 collapse Blount Street, 65, 78, 96, 136, 152, 169 Brown, John, 37 of, 89, 91, 92, 92, 105; efforts to move, to Milwaukee, Blue Goose brothel, 143, 156, 157 Brown, Timothy, 119, 123 14, 19, 33, 39, 42, 63, 80; federal funds for building, Blue Mounds (Wisconsin), 3, 9 Brown’s Block. See Bruen’s Block 12; fire in second, 140–42, 151, 151, 195; first, 13, 14, 15, Board of Commerce, 204, 207. See also Association of Bruen’s (Brown’s) Block, 21, 2 5, 40, 41, 45, 46, 90, 168, 18, 18–19, 19, 22, 34, 46, 63; height limitations to Commerce; Chamber of Commerce 209, 212, 252 preserve view of, 175, 184, 185, 189, 199, 210, 239; Board of Parks Commissioners, 116 Bryan, William Jennings, 129, 147 landscape plan for third, 173; protests at, 15; second, 266 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 267

35, 42, 45, 46, 55, 58, 63, 63–64, 64, 65, 70, 92, 113, 130, Chadbourne Hall. See Ladies Hall Clarke, Mrs. B. B., 157 140, 142; State Historical Society collections in, 132; Chamberlin, Thomas, 97, 98, 128, 132, 209 Clark’s Clothing Store, 227 third, 94, 141, 151, 168, 170, 175, 176, 177, 180, 194, 197, Chamber of Commerce, 199. See also Association of Claude and Starck architects, 154, 164, 182, 227 209, 212–13, 246, 247; underground coal vault in, 76; Commerce; Board of Commerce Clay, Henry, 25 views from, 1 04, 127, 176. See also Capitol Annex; Chandler Street, 108, 155, 196 Cleveland, Frances, 147 Capitol Park; Wisconsin (Capitol statue) Chapman, Chandler B., 78, 119, 191, 249 Cleveland, Grover, 106, 147 Capitol Annex, 210, 211, 241, 245, 247; site of, 17, 21, Charter Street, 166 Cleveland, Horace W. S., 77 26, 27 chautauquas. See Monona Lake Assembly Clymer Street, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 25, 25, 41, 106. See also Capitol Boulevard, 191, 210, 249 Chemistry Hall, 162, 237 Doty Street Capitol Improvement Commission, 151, 184 Chicago (Illinois), 12, 16, 24, 45, 229, 233; in Civil War, coal, 76, 95, 193, 226, 227 Capitol Park (Capitol Square), 8; Carnival District 49, 50; Columbian Exposition in, 100, 138; fire in, 15, Coburn, Jean Pond Miner, 138 around, 157, 157; development around, 66, 79; first 24, 46, 117, 121; railroads to, 53 Cohn General Store, 188 structures on, 14; Forward statue on, 138, 138; John Chicago, Madison and Northern Railroad, 102, 102. See Cole, Orasmus, 123 Nolen on, 10; landscaping of, 65–67, 76, 77, 89; also Illinois Central Railroad Coleman, Thomas, 159 lights on, 21, 31, 94, 159; one-way traffic around, 217, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 65. See also College Hills subdivision, 112. See also Shorewood Hills 226; as only park land in Doty’s plat map, 11; Milwaukee Road Railroad Village outhouse and fence at, 15, 18, 19, 35, 76, 89, 90, 125; Chicago and North Western Railroad, 35, 50, 53, 55, 62, Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), 100, 138 redevelopment of, in the 1920s, 210, 212–13; schools 65–67, 69, 91, 93; depots of, 65, 66, 89, 90, 103, 106, Commercial Avenue, 133, 217 on, 17; Shipman-designed structures on, 46, 76; 152, 169, 177, 205; filling in marshes near, 207; and Commercial Club, 157 streetcars’ convergence at, 134, 135, 153, 216; UW Gisholt factory, 201; as Madison’s first railroad line, Commercial National Bank, 117, 227 president’s inauguration festivities at, 28. See also 102; WW I draftees at depot of, 205 Commercial Trust Company, 226 Capitol; parades Chippewa people, 12, 24 Commission of Immigration, 24 Capitol Park Commission, 77 Chi Psi fraternity, 123, 195 Commission of Public Buildings, 19 Capitol Square. See Capitol Park cholera, 23 Committee of Fifty, 174, 178 Capitol Theatre, 180, 211, 227, 229, 232, 233 Christian Dick Block, 138, 169 Commons, John R., 186, 188, 204 Cardinal Hotel, 169 Christ Presbyterian Church, 188, 192 communism, 207 Carnegie, Andrew, 150 Christy Minstrels, 42, 79 Community House. See Neighborhood House Carnival District, 157, 157 churches: for African Americans, 140, 141, 171; early, in Community Union, 120 Carpenter, S. D. (“Pump”), 36, 82 Madison, 12, 13, 15, 20–22, 23, 29, 35, 42, 74, 74. See Company G, First Wisconsin Volunteers, 134 Carpenter, S. H. (professor), 73 also names of specific churches Confederate Rest (Forest Hill Cemetery), 49, 50 carpenters, 136–37, 159, 208, 230, 231 Churchill Building. See Gay Building Congregational Church: first, on West Washington, 13, carpenter unions, 208, 230, 231 Church of Christ, 57 20, 21, 29, 42, 57, 67, 74, 77, 85, 89, 113, 130; Madison Carroll Street (North), 61, 197; boathouses on, 109, 111, Cinema Theatre, 232 High School first located in, 58; next, on Breese 113, 118, 118–19, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218; lumberyards City Beautiful movement, 172, 178 Terrace, 211 on, 148; Madison Free Library on, 150, 150; City Boathouse, 109, 111, 113, 118, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218 Congress (U.S.), 8, 12, 19. See also specific Wisconsin mansions on, 41, 43, 43, 86, 94, 100, 117, 121, 121, 123; City Car Company, 102 congressmen schools on, 150, 197; skyscraper on, 189; Wisconsin city council. See Madison Common Council Conklin, James, 68, 95 , 127, 135 State Journal plant on, 117 City-County Building, 16, 121, 184, 226 Conklin, John, 60, 95 Carroll Street (South): Angle Worm Station on, 55, 84, City Functional school, 172, 178 Conklin Block, 180 85; churches on, 55, 74, 104, 239; hotels on, 80, 168; City High School. See Madison High School Conklin Ice House (later, Conklin Park), 95, 119, 169, student soldiers on, 203 City Horse Barn, 177 171, 183, 226, 247. See also James Madison Park Carson Gulley Commons, 238 City Hotel, 13 Conover, Allan Darst, 20, 90, 92, 93, 99 , 209; buildings Casa di Bambini (Neighborhood House), 224 City Isolation Hospital, 211 built by, 129, 131, 135, 138; residence of, 123 Cass, Lewis, 12 City Market, 38, 76, 153, 169, 177, 189, 199. See also Water Conover, Obadiah M., 58, 60, 99 Cassoday, J. B., 94 Tower Horse Market Conradson, Conrad A., 89, 137, 159 Castle and Doyle coal company, 227 City Market neighborhood, 189 Conscription Act, 202 Catfish River. See Yahara River “City of the Four Lakes,” 8–9 The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United Catholicism, 74, 126, 199, 220. See also cemeteries: Civic Center: 1980 building of, 232; Monona Avenue States (Van Hise), 162 Catholic; Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters; specific designated for, 210, 212, 241, 247, 252 Consumers Gas Company, 94 Catholic churches Civic Club, 62, 186 Cooke, Chauncey H., 50 Catlin, John, 13–14, 21, 24, 43, 43, 67 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 249 Coon, S. Park, 48 cemeteries: Catholic, 32, 32, 199; Orton Park formerly, civil service, 198, 242 Cooper, Henry, 242 21, 23, 70, 75, 82, 91, 114, 144. See also Forest Hill Civil War, 48–53, 63, 125, 127, 147; both General Bryants’ Corscot, John, 13, 19, 54, 109, 116, 125 , 137, 153, 209 Cemetery service in, 47; Lucius Fairchild in, 37, 48, 50, 50; Corscot, Julia, 125 census (Wisconsin Territory), 8 memorabilia of, 151; Orton and, 70; Shipman’s Council of Defense, 189, 202, 205, 207 Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia), 83, 99 involvement in, 46; Simeon Mills as paymaster Cramton, Nat, 151 Central High School (formerly Madison High School), during, 16, 50; Van Slyke’s involvement in, 41. See croquet, 83 150, 226, 234, 236 also Camp Randall; Confederate Rest Crowley, Leo, 214 Central Park (proposed, for Madison), 179 Clark, Darwin, 14, 16, 107, 110 Currier, Charles, 30 Century magazine, 238 Clark, Julius, 43, 43 Curry, John Stuart, 148 Chadbourne, Paul A., 28, 61 , 72, 100, 197 Clarke, Bascom B. (“B. B.”), 62, 119, 136, 144, 215, 218 Curtis, William Dexter, 34, 152 , 156, 188, 205 267 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 268

Curtis Prairie (Arboretum), 245 Di Martino, Salvatore, 222 Edgewood Villa, 67, 86, 91, 95 Custer, Frank and Rudy, 234 diphtheria, 101, 114 Edison Light Company, 94 Custer Road, 190 Disabled Veterans of the World War, 205 effigy mounds, 3, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 32, 90, 108, 134, 155, diseases. See public health; specific diseases 166, 190, 244 Dahl, Andreas, 77 Dividing Ridge, 26, 32, 155 eight-hour day, 208, 231 Daily Argus and Democrat (newspaper), 31. See also Division Street, 133, 143 8th Wisconsin Regiment, 151 Argus (newspaper) Dodge, Henry, 8, 9, 12, 13, 19 Ela, Emerson, 189 Daily Cardinal (UW newspaper), 128, 129, 196, 220, 238 Dodge, McClellan, 99 , 108, 131, 153, 164 elections (Madison): of 1846, 20; of 1856, 36; of 1857, 39; Daily Patriot. See Patriot (newspaper) dog races, 239 of 1904, 150; students voting in, 199 Dane, Nathan, 9 Doherty, Henry L., 137 electricity, 91, 94, 101, 108, 137, 159, 180, 190; public Dane County: establishing political organization of, 15; Dominican Sisters, 86, 95, 146 ownership of, 198. See also streetcars: electric; first state senator from, 16; first wedding in, 12; first Donnell, Samuel H., 30, 34, 42, 43, 63 specific electric companies white settler in, 3; Keyes’s history of, 98; naming of, Donovan, J. P., 196 Electric Street Railway, 111, 134 9; as part of Michigan Territory, 8; population of, Dorn, Frank, 92 elevators, 189 in 1836, 9; zoo supported by, 182. See also Dane Dosch, Grant, 176, 177, 188 Elks Club, 168, 176 County Courthouse Doty, James Duane, 12, 12 , 16; and Capitol Ellsworth Block, 67, 153 Dane County Bank, 24, 25, 41, 51, 147 construction, 18–19; as early Madison land Elmside: James Bowen’s mansion called, 68, 108, 166; Dane County Bar Association, 117 purchaser, 8–9, 11, 13, 24, 29, 31; as early Madison Mills’s farm called, 16, 53. See also Elmside Dane County Board of Commissioners, 15, 19 visitor, 3; failure of, to make good use of axial Addition Dane County Cavalry, 70 streets, 10, 11, 31, 44, 55, 142, 176, 179, 207, 212, 228, Elmside Addition, 111, 133, 134, 134, 135, 143, 160 Dane County Council of Defense. See Council of 247; first plat of, 8, 10–11, 44, 161; land donated by, Elvehjem, Conrad, 245 Defense 86; land sales by, 24, 29; land title issues involving, Elvehjem Art Museum, 218 Dane County Courthouse, 39; 1851 courthouse, 21, 22, 8, 12–14; use of federal funds by, 12, 18, 19 Elver, Charles, 205; house of, 205 47, 93, 104; 1886 courthouse, 89, 91, 93, 113, 168; 1958 Doty School. See Fourth Ward School Ely, Anna (Mrs. Richard), 131 City-County Building, 16, 121, 184, 226; 2006 Doty Street, 10, 12, 13, 79, 241; Wright’s Madison Hotel Ely, Richard T., 122, 123, 128, 131, 132 , 186, 195 courthouse, 247 designed for, 168, 176, 185, 185. See also Clymer Ely Place, 131 Dane County Fairgrounds, 106, 239, 245 Street Emancipation Proclamation, 51 Dane County Humane Society, 217, 226 “Doty’s Washbowl,” 19 Emerald Street, 108, 188 Dane County Telephone Company, 136 Douglas, Melvyn, 164 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 42, 196 Danish immigrants, 141 Doyon, Moses R., 13, 53, 68, 95 , 119, 133 Emerson School, 177, 196 Darst, Julia, 99 Drake Street, 108, 142, 166, 236 Emery, Annie, 129 Davidson, James O., 124, 163, 174, 186 Draper, Lyman, 24, 110 Emporium department store, 40 Davidson, Jo, 242 Dreger, Herbert, 222, 223 Engineers’ Minstrels (UW), 220 Davis, Jefferson, 3 Drews, E. H., 221–23, 228 Engle Street, 25, 25, 61 Dawson, William, 194 Dudgeon, Richard B., 119, 150, 197, 209, 234 English immigrants, 141 Day, Frank Miles, 150 Dudgeon School, 211, 234 epidemics. See public health Daylight Savings Time, 193, 210 “Dunmovin” estate, 148 Episcopal churches, 20, 21, 23, 35, 46, 53, 54, 55, 67, 70, Dayton Street, 17, 89, 130, 150, 150, 167, 171 Dunning district, 58 77, 85, 89, 106, 113, 120, 130, 168, 209, 239 Dead Lake. See Turtle Lake Dunning Street, 79, 245 Equitable Life Insurance Company, 125 Deadman, C. A., 241 Durrie, Daniel S., 24, 37, 58, 70, 87 Erin Street, 108, 155, 188 Deadman’s Corners. See Death Corners (Greenbush) Dye, Albert A., 68, 116, 126, 127 Espionage Act, 202 Dean, Nathaniel, 80 Evangelical Lutheran Immanual Church, 100 Dean, Sarah Fairchild (Mrs. O. M. Conover), 99, 123 E. W. Skinner Company, 50, 55, 89 Evans Scholars (UW), 27 Death Corners (Greenbush), 221, 223 Eagle Heights, 112, 114, 115, 148 Evansville Seminary, 58 death penalty abolition, 24 East High School, 133, 143, 150, 211, 226, 228, 231, 236 Everett, John Winter, 125 Delaplaine, George P., 30, 81, 108, 110, 119 East Madison House, 205 Evergreen Street, 133 Delta Sigma Tau, 220 east side (of Madison), 168–69; college attendance Evjue, William T., 91, 188, 198, 205, 206–7, 207, 218 Democrat Printing Company, 111, 124, 136 from, 235; development of, 66, 84, 89, 90, 100, 133, Executive Residence (gubernatorial): on East Gilman, Democrats, 69, 124, 127, 147; during Civil War, 50, 51, 53, 140, 143, 160, 176; factories on, 100, 158, 159, 200, 201, 80, 83, 123; in Maple Bluff, 76 54; in 1890 election, 98; German immigrants as, 78, 204, 230; 1919 strikes on, 177, 208; railroads through, Experimental College, 148, 238 228. See also names of specific Democrats 102; WW I boom on, 204, 207. See also specific Des Moines (Iowa), 135 factories, neighborhoods, and suburbs factories. See manufacturing; specific factories Desmond Court, 220 East Side Businessmen’s Association, 231, 232 Fairchild, Cassius, 37, 50 Detroit (Michigan), 192, 195 East Side High School. See East High School Fairchild, Frances Bull (Mrs. Lucius), 27, 42, 120, 121 DeVries, Arnold, 223 Eastwood Drive, 133 Fairchild, Jairus, 27, 31, 33, 34, 37, 37 ; calls for city Dewey, Nelson, 47 Eastwood Theatre, 211, 232, 233, 236. See also Barrymore auditorium by, 42, 66, 79, 240; downtown holdings Dexter, Helen, 186 Theatre of, 31, 79; home of, 17, 21, 27, 111, 121, 142, 168, 241, Dick, Christian, 138 Eau Claire (Wisconsin), 75, 194 243, 246; as Madison mayor, 37–39, 42, 101; as Dick Building, 138, 169 Eberle, George, 180 Madison mayoral candidate, 36, 37 Dickinson Street, 100, 137, 158 Edgewood Avenue, 146 Fairchild, Lucius, 12, 26, 47, 50, 52, 57, 63, 93, 110; on Di Martino, Joseph, 223 Edgewood School, 90. 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Civil War experiences of, 37, 48, 50, 50; and Park 42, 151, 151; at Tonyawatha Hotel, 81, 111; in wooden Franklin Street (formerly East Canal Street), 25, 25, 55, Hotel, 80; wife of, 27, 42, 120, 121 gym on Bascom Hill, 129. See also fire protection 102, 102 Fairchild Block, 21, 31, 44, 44, 79, 168 First Baptist Church, 46, 74, 80, 104, 113, 222 fraternities and sororities, 27, 163, 195, 206, 210, 211, 219, Fairchild’s Hall, 79, 79 First Central Bank Building, 209, 211, 212, 247, 252 220. Fairchild Street, 69, 74, 104, 189, 211, 217, 252 First Congregational Church, 13, 20, 21, 29, 42, 57, 58, Frautschi, Christian, 119 fairgrounds: Dane County, 106, 239, 245; state, 48, 71, 67, 74, 77, 85, 89, 113, 130; new, 74, 211 Frautschi, Emil, 67 87, 94, 94, 103, 128, 130–31, 135 First Lake. See Lake Kegonsa Frautschi, Jerome, 229 Fair Hotel, 153 First Methodist Church, 40, 41, 188 Frautschi, Lowell, 141, 237 Fair Oaks Avenue, 81 First National Bank, 25, 41, 69, 94, 171, 231, 252 Frautschi, Walter, 141, 220, 238 Fair Oaks Land Company, 143, 159 First Settlement neighborhood, 22, 90 Frautschi Company, 231 Fair Oaks neighborhood, 5, 160, 161, 176, 216 First Street, 133, 164 Free African Methodist Church, 141 Fair Oaks village, 140, 141, 143, 159, 177, 193. See also Fair First Unitarian Meeting House, 192 Freedman’s and Western Sanitary Commission, 62 Oaks neighborhood First Ward School, 35, 58 Freemasons, 57, 68, 125, 222, 226, 227, 239. See also Falk, Phillip, 220 First Wisconsin Bank, 41 Masonic Temple Family Service, 188 Fish, William T., 59, 94, 108, 123, 131 French, Daniel Chester, 184 Family Shoes, 180 fish hatchery, 112 French Battery and Carbon Company, 166, 167, 177, Farmer, Mary Elizabeth. See Stevens, Mary Farmer Fitch, Deming, 112, 178 200, 200, 230, 231. See also Ray-O-Vac Farmers’ Cooperative Packing Company, 201 Fitchburg (Wisconsin), 74 French explorers, 3, 12, 135 Farwell, Leonard J., 20, 22, 24 , 24, 27, 31, 36, 44, 56, 70, Fitchburg Road, 241 Friends of Our Native Landscape, 244 91, 205; and Edgewood Villa land, 86; marshes flour mills. See grist mills Fuller, Anna Heritage, 201 drained by, 21, 24, 143; mill of, 11, 15, 50, 67, 125, 145; Fond du Lac (Wisconsin), 12, 236 Fuller, Anna Wells, 120 octagon mansion of, 16, 21, 24, 30, 35, 44, 44, 47, 52, Ford’s Theater (Washington, D.C.), 24 Fuller, Edward, 122 63, 67, 90, 154; platting of land owned by, 25, 25, 58, foresters (city), 184 Fuller, John, 40, 41, 45 75, 133; street named for, 24, 111, 116; trees planted Forest Hill Cemetery, 39, 41, 241; Adamses buried in, Fuller, Morris E., 40, 94, 100, 119, 122, 123, 124, 137, 201 by, 21, 24, 55; views from mansion of, 62. See also 125; African American residents buried in, 54; Fuller, Sarah (later, Mrs. Robert Bashford), 40, 124 Farwell Addition Bashfords buried in, 124; Confederate soldiers Fuller and Johnson Manufacturing Company, 89, 91, Farwell Addition, 25, 25, 58, 75, 133, 160 buried in, 49, 50; Corscots buried in, 125; La 100, 143, 156, 158, 158, 159, 230 Farwell Drive (Maple Bluff), 24, 111, 116 Follettes buried in, 242; Schmedeman buried in, Fuller and Williams, 100 Farwell House (later, Harvey Hospital), 16, 21, 24, 30, 228; Schubert buried in, 153; streetcars to, 131, 134, Fuller-Bashford House (Mansion Hill), 41, 45 35, 44, 44, 47, 52, 63, 67, 90, 154 135, 142, 160, 208. See also Forest Hill Cemetery Fuller Opera House, 89, 111, 121, 122, 122, 168, 211, 232 Farwell mill, 11, 15, 50, 67, 125, 145. See also Madison Commission Fuller’s Woods, 218 Mills Forest Hill Cemetery Commission, 94, 148 Fulton Avenue, 10 Fauerbach, Emil, 82 Forest Products Laboratory, 162 Fauerbach, Peter, and brewery, 62, 78, 96, 113, 159, 198, Fort Crawford (Prairie du Chien), 3, 8, 12 gambling dens, 13, 14–15, 30 199, 207 Fort Winnebago (Portage), 3, 8, 9, 12 Game Refuge Commission, 244 Federated Trades Council, 136–37 Fort Winnebago Road. See Milwaukee Street gangs, 222 Federation of Labor, 207 “Forty Thieves,” 17, 21, 37 Gapen, Clarke, 144, 157, 174 Female Academy. See Madison Female Academy Forty Thousand Club, 144, 157, 174 garbage: collection of, 69, 71, 120, 161, 226; dumping of, Ferry and Clas architects, 132, 182 Forward statue, 138, 138 in city, 187, 187, 188; hogs devouring city, 229, 245; Fess, George, 35, 67, 119 Four Lakes Company, 8 landfills of, 140 Fess Hotel, 106 Four Lakes Country. See Madison; Middleton Gardner, Louis, 249 Few Street, 143 (Wisconsin) Gardner Marsh, 249 Field House, 211, 238 Four Lakes Light and Power Company, 108, 137 Garfield Street, 108 15th Regiment, 50 “The Four Lakes of Madison” (Longfellow), 83 Garnhart, J. H. and Rebecca, 123 Fifth Ward, 135, 188 Four Lakes Ordnance Company, 159, 204 Garnhart Reaper Works, 67, 84, 100 Fifth Ward School, 67, 75, 95 Fourth Lake. See Lake Mendota Garrison, D. R., 123 Fifth Ward Sewing Society, 188 Fourth of July. See Independence Day Garver, James R., 161 50th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry regiment, 47 Fourth Ward, 61. See also Fourth Ward School; gaslights, 21, 31, 138, 159 Findorff, John F., 105, 158, 159, 189, 219 Greenbush neighborhood gas stations, 67, 74, 78, 152, 176, 217, 217, 241 Fiore filling station, 67, 74 Fourth Ward School (later, Doty School), 35, 58, 89, 93, gas works, 20 fire protection, 23, 31, 39, 41, 42; alarm system for, 125; 124, 228 Gates of Heaven Synagogue (Shaare Shomaim), 35, 57, buildings for housing, 90, 165, 207, 211, 227, 241; Fox, Anna Matilda. See Vilas, Anna Matilda Fox 57, 74 corruption in, 124; pump team for, 152; and Science Fox, Philip, 74 Gay, Leonard W., 112, 116, 119, 126, 185, 189, 191 Hall fire, 99; and second Capitol fire, 151; steam Fox, William, 147 Gay Building (formerly Churchill Building), 175, 177, engines for, 47, 54. See also fires Fox-Atwood Block, 47, 113 185, 189, 191, 197, 239 fires: at Bascom Hall, 60, 177, 195; at Capital House Fox people, 3 Gays Mills (Wisconsin), 153 Hotel, 138; at Edgewood Villa, 86, 91; at Hausmann Frances Court Apartments, 167 Gelosi, Frankie and Joe, 223 Brewery, 78; at Hotel Washington, 141; at Lakeside Frances Street, 29, 77, 122, 123, 162, 166, 188 General Electric Company, 135 House, 81; prairie, 15; at St. Raphael’s Cathedral, Frank, Glenn, 237, 238, 243, 244, 248 George Christy Minstrels, 42, 79 104; at St. Regina Academy, 111, 121; at Science Hall, Frankenburger, David B., 74, 123, 124 George Washington School. See Washington 60, 67, 72, 83, 89, 91, 98, 147; in second Capitol, 140– Franklin School, 211, 234 School 269 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 270

German-American Bank, 91, 122, 201, 205. See also 220, 222, 223; in 1860–62, 61; Ku Klux Klan in, 220, Hobbins, Mary (“Minnie”) Mears, 122, 154 American Exchange Bank 222–23, 228; land for, 12; Orthodox congregation in, Hobbins, William, 122 German Jews, 57, 166 57, 166; statistics about, 188; street grid for, 29; as Ho-Chunk people, 3, 20, 24, 85, 190, 218, 245 German language, 234 troubled neighborhood, 176, 186, 187, 187, 198, 210, Hoeffler, Adolph, 20, 22, 23, 114 German Lutheran Church, 153 211, 220–23. See also Neighborhood House Hollister, Albert, 131 Germans: as Barstow supporters, 36; as Madison Greenbush School, 166. See also Longfellow School Holy Redeemer Church, 35, 42, 55, 65, 71, 84, 127, 166 immigrants, 66, 78, 98, 126, 141, 166, 169, 188, 194, Green Lake Bible Conference, 242 Homecoming (at UW), 238 205; as Madison mayors, 126, 198, 199, 228; as Gregory, Jared Comstock, 68, 68, 69, 78, 101, 110 Home Rule and Taxpayers League, 192 Madison settlers, 23, 49; World War prejudice Griggs, Mary Lee, 186, 224 Hooley, R. M., 79, 146 against, 202, 206–7, 234. See also German Jews grist mills, 21, 24, 55, 58 Hooley’s Opera House, 67, 79, 122, 146 Germany, 158. See also Germans; World War I grocery stores, 133, 135 Hopkins, B. F., 56 Gilbert, Cass, 150 Groves, John W., 13, 152, 153, 157, 157 , 159, 209 Hospital Association, 154 Gill, Arthur, 57 Gulley, Carson, 110, 238 hospitals, 39, 117, 154. See also names of specific Gill, George, 57 Gurnee Block, 17 hospitals Gill, William, 154 Hotel Loraine, 69, 104, 185, 209, 211, 212, 239, 242, 252 Gilman Street, 59, 61, 78, 95, 120; mansions on, 80, 83, Hacker, Monty, 234 Hotel Madison, 168 98, 106, 123, 146, 147, 147, 168, 186 Halloween, 129, 229 Hotel Rose Marie Bed and Breakfast, 205 Gilmore, Frank, 188 Hamilton Street, 23, 54, 95, 104, 126, 153, 170–71, 184; hotels, 80–81, 185. See also names of specific hotels Gisholt Home for the Aged, 100 fourth courthouse and jail on, 247; layout of, 10, 11, Hotel Trumpf. See Hotel Washington Gisholt Machine Company, 89, 111, 137, 143, 156, 158, 159, 247; mills on, 11, 55, 65, 89; railroad tracks along, Hotel Washington (formerly Hotel Trumpf), 141, 152, 204, 230; number of employees in, 159; prizes won 102; wharfs on, 14, 18 152, 167 by, 100, 158; railroad tracks for, 201; war profits of, Hancock Street (formerly West Canal Street), 13, 25, houseflies, 120 207 25, 55 Hoven, Mathias, 125, 126 , 126, 127, 164, 189 Glenn, Victor S., 205 Hanks, Lucien S., 92, 119, 123, 188 Hoven Court, 126 Glover, John, 54 Hanks, Mollie Vilas, 124 Howard, William W., 107 golf courses, 179, 199, 218, 241, 244, 245 Harper’s Weekly, 82, 107 Hoyt, Frank W., 20, 111, 119 Goodland, Walter S., 223 Harrison, William Henry, 8, 19, 37, 47 Hoyt, Lansing, 67, 98, 123, 149, 252 Goodman, Irwin and Robert, 178 Harvard University, 172 Hoyt, Mary Clark, 120 Goodnight, Scott K., 220, 238 Harvey, Cordelia, 52, 52, 110 Hoyt Park (formerly Sunset Point), 114, 115, 149 Gordon, Mildred, 238 Harvey, Louis P., 34, 50, 52 Hudson, Frank, 24, 26 “Gorham Heights,” 190 Harvey Hospital, 35, 44, 44, 52, 125, 154. See also Farwell Hudson, John, 16, 123, 131 Gorham mill, 35 House Hudson and Curtis flour mill, 55 Gorham Street: breweries on, 49, 78, 156, 156; in 1856, Haugen, Nils P., 20, 53 Hudson Park, 16, 143 29; hospital proposed for, 154; ice house on, 168; Hausmann, Joseph, 78, 116, 119, 135 Hungarian immigrants, 161 mansions on, 53, 70, 95, 104, 123, 199, 201; schools Hausmann Brewery, 78, 101, 135, 143, 156, 156, 159, 193, hunting, 15, 20 on, 58, 89, 143, 169, 196; and University Avenue’s 200; closing of, during Prohibition, 198, 217; as gas Huntington Court, 220 extension, 211, 215, 228 station site, 217; for site of new city hall, 211 Gosling, Thomas W., 234 Hayes, Rutherford, 98 ice boating, 82 Government Plaza, 70 Hefty, T. R., 231 ice houses, 23 governors’ homes, 80. See also Executive Residence Heim, John B., 95, 101, 119, 189, 198, 199 ice skating, 82 (gubernatorial); names of specific governors Hekla Insurance Company, 86, 100 Icke, John, 144, 153, 155, 221, 244, 245 Governor’s Island, 116 Helen C. White Memorial Library, 237 Illinois Central Railroad, 89, 91, 102, 102, 108, 112, 167, Grace Episcopal Church, 21, 22, 35, 46, 55, 70, 77, 85, 89, Henderson, Norman B., 222 179 113, 130, 168, 209, 239; members of, 53; President Henry, James, 26 Immanuel Evangelical Church, 54 Cleveland visits, 106; Woman’s Club at, 120 Henry, William Arnon, 101, 154 Immel, Ralph, 244 Grand Army of the Republic, 17, 130, 151, 176 Henry Street, 11, 123, 219, 241 immigrants: in early Madison, 22–24; in nineteenth- grand jury: Madison’s first, 192 Henry Vilas Park. See Vilas Park century Madison, 66, 78; in twentieth-century Grand Mall, 11, 40, 141, 168, 174, 174, 179, 184, 185, 241, Henry Vilas Zoo, 176, 177, 182 Madison, 141, 161. See also specific nationalities and 243, 252 Heritage, Anna, 201 ethnic groups Grant, Ulysses S., 84, 147 Herrick, Amalia, 95 Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), 219 Grant City (Missouri), 24 Hess, John, 78 Implement Row, 133, 136, 136. See also Machinery Row Great Britain, 3 Highland Avenue, 236 Independence Day (in Madison), 14, 31, 80, 84 Great Depression, 228, 230–31, 244, 245 Highlands, 148, 242 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 57, 226 Great Esplanade, 11, 140, 141, 172–73, 174, 174, 179 Highway 10, 217 Indians: destruction of Madison sites associated with, Greeley, Horace, 25, 25, 30, 56, 81, 106 Highway 12, 245 26, 27, 32, 32, 155; early, in Madison area, 3–5, 4; Green Bay (Wisconsin), 3, 8, 12, 14, 18, 36, 53 Highway 18, 245 effigy mounds of, 3, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 32, 90, 108, 134, Greenbush Addition: hospitals in, 154; map of, 32, 32, Highway 31, 217 155, 166, 190, 244; encampments of, 3, 20, 190, 218, 142; marshes in, 108, 187; schools in, 58, 124, 155, 166, Hills Department Store, 229 245; trails of, 4, 5, 7, 25, 26, 133, 160, 231. See also 176, 196; sewage and pumping station in, 153. See hitching rails, 74, 76, 160 specific groups of also Greenbush neighborhood Hobbins, Bertha Suhr, 122 industrialization. See manufacturing Greenbush neighborhood: bootleggers in, 198, 210, 211, Hobbins, Joseph W., 119, 122, 154, 188 influenza pandemic, 176, 183, 203, 227 270 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 271

Ingersoll Street, 156 Jones, David (secretary of state), 63 Kronshage, Theodore, 238 Inn on the Park, 120 Jones, David R. (architect), 92, 105 Ku Klux Klan, 186, 210, 219, 220, 220, 221, 222–23, 223, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, 120 Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 202, 206 224, 226–28, 234 Iowa Territory, 19 Jones, Katherine MacDonald, 149, 150 Kutzbock, August, 34, 42, 43, 57, 63, 64 Ireland, 107 Jones, Olive Hoyt, 149 Irish: as Barstow supporters, 36; as Madison Jones, Richard Lloyd, 185, 188, 194, 198, 205, 206, 206–7, L. J. Farwell and Company, 24 immigrants, 74, 95, 98, 141; as Madison mayors, 199; 219 Labor Day, 136, 204 as Madison police officers, 198; as Madison settlers, labor unions. See organized labor 23; in minstrel shows, 220; as Union soldiers, 50 Kappa Beta Lambda, 220 LaBruzzo, “Little Pete,” 222 Irving, Washington, 196 Kayser, Adolph H., 198, 199 La Crosse (Wisconsin), 5, 36, 159 isthmus (Madison’s): Black Hawk War sites on, 5, 26; Kayser, Hedwig, 199 La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad, 36 descriptions of, 9, 11, 107; early purchase of, 8; Keely, Neckerman and Kessenich business, 153 La Crosse Light Guard, 48 layout of, 10–11; title issues regarding, 8, 12–14. See Kehl, Frederick, 143 Ladies Hall (later, Chadbourne Hall), 61, 65, 65, 67, 71, also specific places on Kehl, Leo, 224 74, 74, 97, 127, 128–29, 162, 163 Isthmus newspaper, 152 Kehl’s Dance Hall, 230 La Follette, Belle Case, 83, 86, 93, 206, 242 Italian immigrants, 141, 166, 186–88, 224 Kelly, J. H., 236 La Follette, Philip Fox, 74, 110, 203, 210, 222, 223, 228 Italian Workmen’s Club, 177, 187, 211, 221 Kentucky House, 13 La Follette, Robert M., 12, 20, 74 , 74, 98, 100, 105, 190, Keokuk, 3 209; and The Capital Times, 206–7; and Charles J. C. Penney Company, 21, 27 Kessenich, Frank, 211, 229 Van Hise, 162; as Dane County district attorney, 92, J. I. Case Company, 159 Kessenich’s Department Store, 71, 153, 180, 211, 229 93, 96, 98, 149, 223; and Elisha Keyes, 98; Ely on, 132; Jackson, Andrew, 8, 12, 14 Keyes, Elisha W., 47, 54, 54 , 74, 93, 94, 98, 100, 104, 178; funeral cortege of, 242; as governor, 151, 163; as Jackson, Elizabeth Stevens, 122 and alcohol regulation, 96; and Capitol, 18, 92; gubernatorial candidate, 129, 141, 147; and John Jackson, James A., Sr., 13 downtown holdings of, 31, 117; home of, 70, 123; and Bascom, 73, 75; Maple Bluff home of, 86, 86, 121; Jackson, James and Sydonia, 122 La Follette, 98; as mayor, 50, 69, 89, 98; and public political mentor of, 47, 98; and prohibition, 96–97, Jackson, Joseph W., 67, 75, 95, 112, 205, 244, 245, 247, waterworks, 101; and streetcars, 103; as UW regent, 198; supporters of, 124, 157, 243; as UW student, 74; 249 73, 97–99 on William Vilas, 147; WW I opposition of, 101, 202, Jackson, Reginald, 122, 123 Keyes, John, 78 202, 203, 206–7, 243 Jackson Clinic, 186, 244 Keyes-Rodemund Brewery, 25, 25 La Follette, Robert M., Jr., 110 Jackson Oak, 245 Kiekhofer, W. H., 231 La Follette Law Firm, 119 Jackson Street, 108 Kilgore, Damon Y., 29, 58 , 59, 62, 79 Lake City Tool Company, 89 Jacobs, William, 81 kindergarten, 100, 169 Lake Forest development (“Lost City”), 112, 116, 189, Jacobson’s automobile showroom, 217 King Street: banning of traffic on, proposed, 226; 191, 210, 215, 216, 244, 245, 249; platting of, 177, 191, jails, 13, 15, 21, 42, 247 businesses on, 18, 80, 206; carnivals on, 157; city 244, 245 James Madison Park, 35, 57, 95, 226, 247 boathouse proposed for bottom of, 119, 119; early Lake Forest Land Company, 191, 211 Janesville (Wisconsin), 48, 74, 95, 122, 206 settlers camped on, 3; in 1840s, 15; in 1851, 19, 20; in Lake Front Park, 134 Jastrow, Joseph, 119, 123 1860–63, 44, 44; in 1887, 106; in 1899, 138; in 1914, lakefronts: Madison’s lack of attention to its, 10, 11, 44, Jastrow, Rachel, 123 207; first school located on, 16; layout of, 10, 11, 31, 44, 62, 66, 174, 178; Nolen’s recommendations for, Jefferson, Beverly, 13, 119, 209 44, 119, 207, 212; views from, 89, 90. See also Simeon 184; parks on, 144, 148, 156. See also specific lakes and Jessner, Rudolph, 223 Mills National Historic District; State Street lakefront parks Jews: in Madison, 57, 79, 166; prejudice against, 220, Kipp factory. See Mason-Kipp Manufacturing Lake Geneva (Wisconsin), 134, 185 223, 238. See also synagogues Company Lake Kegonsa (First Lake), 24, 30 Johansen, Gunnar, 148 Kittle, Mrs. William, 234 Lakeland, 112 John Findorff Co. See Findorff, John F. Kittleson, Ida, 226 Lakeland Avenue, 134 John Nolen Drive, 85, 241 Kittleson, Isaac Milo, 67, 152, 211, 215–17, 221–23, 226, Lake Mendota (formerly Fourth Lake), 7, 16, 23, 35, Johnson, Andrew, 24, 56 226 , 228, 240 248; brewery on, 78, 135; early land sales near, 8; Johnson, Carl, 124, 202, 207 Kiwanis Club, 224, 230 Farwell’s home on, 24; ice house on, 95; lakefront Johnson, Hobart, 188, 202, 207 Klauber, Caroline, 57 along, 10, 11, 174, 184; naming of, 24, 30; regattas on, Johnson, Ida, 104 Klauber, Samuel, 57 , 75, 79, 80, 91 31; sawmills on, 11, 13, 14, 15, 50, 67, 125, 145; sewage Johnson, J. B. (professor), 164 Klauber, Sophie, 75 in, 101, 103, 109, 117, 147; stocking of, with fish, 81, Johnson, John A. (“Dogskin”), 188, 222 Knapp, J. Gillett, 5, 19 113; Wright’s City Boathouse on, 109, 111, 113, 118, Johnson, John Anders, 86, 100 , 100, 101, 123, 137, 143, Knapp Memorial Graduate Center, 83 118–19, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218. See also City Boathouse 158, 159, 201 Knights of Pythias, 226 Lake Mendota Court, 50, 74 Johnson Street, 3, 55, 130, 133, 217, 230; railroad tracks Koch, Henry, 93 Lake Mendota Drive, 111, 114, 114, 115, 116, 140 proposed for, 53, 55, 66; residences on, 125; schools Kohl Center site, 167 Lake Mendota Pleasure Drive Association, 115 on, 29, 43, 43, 75, 95, 150, 196, 197; vetoed as site for Kohler, Walter, 237, 241 Lake Mills (Wisconsin), 54, 57 new city hall, 226 Kraege, Fred Halsey, 110 Lake Monona (formerly Third Lake), 245; approach Joliet, Louis, 3 Kraft Foods North America, 201 to Capitol from, 168, 174; dock line on, 210, 240; Jones, Burr W., 20, 58, 98, 101, 103, 116, 119, 149 , 174; and Kremers, Edward, 146 dredging of, 148, 149, 166, 171, 210, 226; early La Follette, 202; playgrounds donated by, 141, 149; Kronenberg, Ferdinand L., 166, 186, 197, 221, 227, 229, description of, 7, 35; early land purchases near, 8; residences of, 122, 123; and tavern controversies, 156; 234 houses on, 24; ice house on, 95; industrial pollution in University Heights Company, 131 Kronke, George, 205, 247 in, 161; lakefront along, 10, 11, 44, 44, 62, 66, 174, 178; 271 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 272

Lake Monona (cont.) libraries, 42, 69; in Gisholt Machine Company, 100; at founding of, 8–10; incorporation of, 36; Indians in, leisure activity on, 82, 84, 109; naming of, 24, 30; Madison Institute, 125; public, 67, 69, 140, 141, 150, 3–5; layout of, 10–11; naming of, 9; number of Civil Nolan’s proposal for, 172–73, 184; proposals for 150, 174, 197, 234; for state legislature, 197; at UW, War soldiers from, 50; platting of town of, 112, 112; city boathouse on, 119, 119, 226; railroad tracks 72, 75, 83, 128, 132, 237, 238; Woman’s Club’s support pre-settlement, 7, 16; scrip used to pay workers in, along, 85, 102, 119; resorts on, 134; sewage in, 59, 101, for, 120 42; sesquicentennial of, 22, 55, 95, 113, 137, 225, 226, 103, 109, 113, 126, 147, 164, 186; stocking of, with fish, Library Hall, 72, 75, 132 248; settling of, 13–17, 20; skyline of, from Lake 81; weeds in, 164. See also Monona Bay; names of Liceri, Calogero, 177, 188 Monona, 30, 33, 109, 113, 139, 179, 209; skyline of, parks on Life magazine, 202 from Picnic Point, 194; as territorial capital, 8, 9, 12, Lake Park, 143. See also Schuetzen Park Lincoln, Abraham, 12, 24, 37, 48, 50, 51, 54, 70, 98, 117; 14, 18–19; topographical changes in, 26–27; as Lakeside House, 30, 35, 55, 61, 67, 81, 81. See also Bascom Hall statue of, 148, 163; and Cordelia tourist destination, 61, 66, 80, 81–82, 100, 105, 107, Monona Lake Assembly Harvey, 52; and David Atwood, 56; Madison 109, 117, 122; town-gown split in, 25, 25, 100; as Lakeside Street, 209 memorial service for, 57 village, 8, 15–17, 19–31, 21, 93, 210, 212, 247, 252; wards Lake Street, 55, 58, 89, 156, 223 Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.), 184 of, 38. See also Capitol; east side; isthmus; maps; Lake Waubesa (formerly Second Lake), 20, 24, 30 Lincoln School, 59, 143, 169, 177; second, 196, 199. See mayors; west side; names of specific streets, Lake Wingra, 7, 11, 26, 116, 191, 236; Nolen’s proposal for also Second Ward School buildings, institutions, and persons in a park around, 179, 184; Vilas Park built on, 146, 146. Lincoln School Apartments, 59, 177 “Madison” (Dawson), 194 See also Arboretum; Edgewood Villa; Lake Forest Lindbergh, Charles A., 188, 211, 237, 238 Madison: A History of the Formative Years development; Vilas neighborhood Lindbergh baby, 188 (Mollenhoff), 171 Lake Winnebago, 12 Lions Club, 222, 224 Madison: A Model City (Nolen), 10, 140, 145, 161, 176, Lakewood subdivision, 246 liquor licenses. See taverns 178–79, 205, 243, 249 Lamb Building, 227 “Little Brick” schoolhouse, 13, 17, 20, 29, 58 Madison, James, 9 Landau, Alfred, 200 Livermore, Joseph, 151 Madison and Portage Railroad, 53 landfill: of dredged materials, 167, 171; of garbage, 140; Livesey, James, 75 Madison and Wisconsin Foundation, 67 on Lake Monona lakeshore, 240, 245; for Law Park, Livesey’s Springs, 8 Madison Area Technical College, 150 184, 247 Livingston Street, 143, 149, 149, 188, 199, 218 Madison Art Center, 59, 177 Langdon Hall rooming house, 238 Longenecker, G. William, 244 Madison Association of Commerce, 180. See also Langdon Street: in 1854, 25, 25; fraternities and Longenecker Gardens (Arboretum), 244 Association of Commerce sororities on, 163, 206, 210, 219, 219; in mid- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 83, 196 Madison Auto Club, 217 nineteenth century, 61; prominent Madisonians’ Longfellow School, 166, 177, 196 Madison Blues baseball team, 239 homes on, 22, 27, 27, 73, 121, 122, 123, 142, 206, 219; Lorillard Tobacco Company, 200 Madison Bond Company, 191 State Historical Society on, 238; taverns banned “Lost City.” See Lake Forest development Madison Business Board, 69 around, 156 Lowell, James Russell, 196 Madison Business College, 40 Lapham, Increase, 26, 99, 244 Lowell School, 177, 196, 199, 241 Madison Businessmen’s Club, 100 Lapham neighborhood. See Tenney-Lapham Loyal Business Men’s Society, 222 Madison Businessmen’s Association, 125 neighborhood Loyal Order of Moose, 226, 227 Madison Choral Union, 129 Lapham School, 145 Loyalty Parade, 204 Madison City Hall, 27, 35, 38, 39, 41, 42, 42, 45, 47, 55, 58, Lardner, Ring, 196 Luckey’s Pharmacy, 152 70, 84, 168, 192; architects of, 42, 43, 63; calls for new, Larkin estate, 112 lumbermen, 119, 147, 148, 152 193, 199, 210, 215, 226, 228, 240, 249; high school Lathrop, John, 28 , 60, 99 Lutheran churches, 90 graduations at, 75; and Hoven’s death, 126; Lathrop Hall, 162 Luther Memorial Brotherhood, 220 Kittleson’s veto of relocation, 226; Madison Free Law, James R., 91, 189, 199, 228, 240 Lyon, Orson, 7, 24 Library opens in, 67, 69, 150; MPPDA meeting at, Law, Law, and Potter firm, 185, 219, 236 Lyon, William, 123 115; tavern in, 42, 44, 78; theater in, 79; UW’s first Law and Order League, 96–97, 100 commencement held at, 44; Wright’s opinion of, Law Park, 85, 179, 184, 247 MacArthur, Arthur, 36 242; in WW I, 204 League of Wisconsin Municipalities, 120 MacArthur, Douglas, 36 Madison City Railway Company, 103, 135, 142 League of Women Voters, 229 MacDougall, James, 164 Madison Club, 177, 198, 199; La Follette expelled from, Lectures on Natural History (Chadbourne), 61 Machinery Row, 66, 111, 136. See also Implement Row 101, 202, 207 Ledwith, Emma, 229 machinist unions, 208, 230 Madison Common Council: and Associated Charities, Lee, Robert E., 49 Madison: annexation of Nakoma by, 245; annexation 188; and city engineers, 153; and City Hall Lee Syndicate, 207 of Oakland Heights by, 141, 142; annexation of construction, 42; on Civic Center, 241; corruption Legislative Reference Library, 197 South Madison by, 226; annexation of University in, 124, 178; criticism of, 174, 178, 193; first meeting Leitch, William, 39, 46, 50, 53 , 110 Heights by, 131, 141, 142; annexation of West Lawn of, 36, 37; first woman to run for, 229; and Great Lemberger, Annie, 176, 177, 188, 188, 206, 222 by, 141, 142; annexation of Wingra Park by, 108, 141, Depression issues, 231; on indexing city records, 152; Lemberger, Martin, 166, 176, 177, 222 142; becomes a city, 8, 20, 24, 31, 33–47, 58; bird’s eye John Nolen’s firing by, 153, 175, 176, 178; and Leopold, Aldo, 244, 245 views of, 55, 65, 88–89, 170–71, 246, 247, 250; city Leonard Farwell, 24, 36; and Madison High School Leopold Pines (Arboretum), 245 charter of, 36–39, 42, 53, 63, 124, 154; city-manager construction, 150; meeting sites for, 25; members of, Lescohier, D. D., 238 form of government for, 194; and Civil War, 48–53; 69, 95, 117, 125, 132, 144, 155, 199; on naming street Leslie, Frank, 34 commission government proposed for, 174, 193, 194, after Doty, 10, 12; and new city hall, 226; number of Levitan, Solomon, 34, 117, 207, 227 , 233 198, 199, 206; as county seat, 8; Doty’s plat of, 8, 10– members of, 95; ordinances of early, 38, 44, 84, 107, Levitan Building, 227 11; early land sales in, 8–12, 14, 24, 29, 72, 86, 108; 121, 134; on parks, 144, 183; on railroad tracks’ Liberty Bonds, 203, 208 first business in, 3; first white children born in, 13; location, 53, 102; salaries for, 171; on sewage plans, 272 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 273

99, 164; and Simeon Mills, 16; and streetcars, 135; on Madison Parks Commission, 184, 185, 210, 228, 240, 244 67, 88–89, 91, 111, 112, 141, 142–43, 177, 179, 211; of Sunday activities, 78, 79; and taverns, 97, 156, 198, Madison Parks Foundation, 91, 105, 184, 185, 243, 244 Madison as a village, 21, 31; of Madison in 1880s, 91; 199; and taxpayer revolt, 39, 41; on trees, 184 Madison Plan Commission, 184, 210, 214–15, 240 of Madison railroads, 25, 25; of Madison’s east side Madison Community Co-Op, 98 Madison Plow Company, 35, 100 in 1890, 133; of Mansion Hill residences, 123; of Madison Compromise, 100 Madison Public Library, 69. See also Madison Free Michigan and Ouisconsin Territories in 1830, 8; Madison Democrat (newspaper), 47, 114–15, 117, 124, Library of new athletic field at Camp Randall, 196; plat, 126, 136, 153, 157, 185, 189, 201, 205 Madison Railways Company, 193, 201, 210, 216, 228 of Brittingham Park, 148; plat, of Lake Forest Madison Dry League, 198 Madison Realty Company, 112, 190, 218, 244, 245, 249 development, 191; plat, of Madison, 8, 10–12, 25, 29, Madison Electric Light and Power Company, 91, 101, “Madison Regency,” 54 31, 112; plat, of Tenney Park area, 200; plat, of Win- 135, 137 Madison Saddlery, 169, 207 gra Park, 108, 112; of streetcar routes in Madison, Madison Electric Railway Company, 135 Madison school district and board, 17, 20, 24, 28, 29, 216–17; of Wiskonsan Territory in 1844, 9 Madison Express (newspaper), 14, 56 150. See also specific schools March, Frederic, 220 Madison Federation of Labor, 234 Madison Square subdivision, 133, 143, 143, 161, 176 Marquette, Jacques, 3, 12, 135 Madison Federation of Teachers, 230, 234 Madison Street Railway Company, 103, 117, 210 Marquette neighborhood, 5, 22, 100 Madison Female Academy, 21, 29, 43, 43, 58, 75, 84 Madison Sugar Company, 161. See also U.S. Sugar Marquette School, 135, 234, 241 Madison Free Library, 174, 197, 234; in City Hall, 67, 69, Company marsh(es), 14, 69, 249; on Bedford Street, 89, 104; 150; new building for, 140, 141, 150, 150 Madison Traction Company, 95 between Blount Street and the Yahara River, 11, 15, Madison Garage Company, 217 Madison Twentieth Century Theatres, 232 58, 89, 90, 116, 133, 143, 152, 179, 207; draining of, 21, Madison Gas and Electric Company (MG&E), 125, 137, Madison Waterworks, 199. See also water works 24, 27, 27, 71, 184, 191; in Greenbush Addition, 108, 159, 169, 205, 206 Madison Zouaves, 51 148, 187, 187; between Lake and Broom Streets, 55, Madison Gas Light and Coke Company, 16, 24, 25, 31, Maennerchor organization, 57, 106, 199 65, 77; near Lake Wingra, 11, 146; materials used for 56, 69, 94, 101, 125, 137 Magnus Swenson Drive, 101 filling in, 155; Nolen’s proposals for, 184; Tenney Madison General Hospital, 104, 117, 129, 166; additions Main, Willett S., 35, 119, 123, 127, 227 Park formerly, 144; western, 65 to, 153, 186; benefactors of, 148; building of, 140, 154, Main Building, 193 Marshall, James, 184 154, 155; dedication of, 141; site for, 131, 142 Main Hall. See Bascom Hall Marshall, Samuel, 52, 67, 86 Madison Guard militia, 47, 48 Main Street (formerly Morris Street), 13, 20, 25, 25, 57, Marshall and Ilsey Bank, 21 Madison High School, 29, 43, 43, 58, 67, 75, 75, 84, 150, 169, 176, 246; brothels on, 143, 156, 157; commercial Marston, J. T., 21, 27, 47 159, 168, 174, 192; 1874 building for, 89, 95, 150; 1887 buildings on, 16, 57, 79, 95, 104, 159; Dane County Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. See Monona Avenue addition to, 150; 1908 dedication of, 140, 141, 150, Courthouse near, 89; electric lights on, 101; as first Mason, O. G., 159 153; 1919 addition to, 197; renaming of, 150; Wright paved street, 35; hotels on, 27, 27, 80; La Follette’s Mason, Stevens, 8, 12–14 a student at, 92. See also Central High School funeral cortege on, 242; Levitan Building on, 227; Mason-Baker Block, 13, 41, 89, 168 Madison Hospital, 154 Mills Building on, 176; railroad depots on, 102, 102; Masonic Temple, 125, 211. See also Freemasons Madison Hotel, 13, 18, 19, 40; Wright’s design for, 168, student soldiers marching on, 203 Mason-Kipp Manufacturing Company, 141, 143, 157, 176, 185, 185, 219, 241, 252 Maisano, Angelo, 187 159. See also Madison-Kipp Company Madison House, 13, 14 Majestic Players, 164 Mason Lubricator Company, 159 Madison Improvement Association, 113, 118–19 Majestic Theatre, 19, 141, 164, 169, 178, 232 Mautz, Bernard, 78 Madison Institute, 69, 125 Manchester’s Department Store, 67, 70, 91, 211, 212, 247, Mayer, Elsa, 201 Madison-Kipp Company, 159, 204, 230. See also 252 Mayer, Harold, 201 Mason-Kipp Manufacturing Company Mann, Horace, 58 Mayer, Oscar G., 201 Madison Lakes Improvement Company, 134, 135 Mansion Hill, 15, 45, 109, 119, 122; development of, 22, mayors (of Madison), 38, 68, 226; Atwood, 56 ; Madison Land and Improvement Company, 108, 133, 78; mansions on, 22, 27, 41, 51, 123, 131, 201; people Bashford, 124 ; Bowen, 68 ; Bull, 152 ; Conklin, 95 ; 149 of, 124. See also Big Bug Hill; Langdon Street Corscot, 125 ; Curtis, 152 ; Doyon, 95 ; Fairchild, 37 ; Madison Land and Lumber Company, 94 manufacturing, 84, 89, 100, 102, 109; on east side, 100, Groves, 157 ; Heim, 199 ; Hoven, 126 ; Kayser, 199 ; Madison Literary Club, 149 158, 159, 200, 201, 204, 230; in Fair Oaks, 140; as Keyes, 54 ; Kittleson, 226 ; Leitch, 53 ; Moulton, 95 ; Madison Lyceum, 14, 79 having the potential to sully Madison, 107; Orton, 70 ; Pinney, 69 ; Proudfit, 69 ; Rogers, 125 ; Madison Manufacturing Company, 89 Madison mayors as seeking more, 56, 68, 95; Sanborn, 53 ; Sayle, 199 ; Schmedeman, 228 ; Madison Metropolitan Sewage District, 242, 247 numbers of workers involved in, 159; taverns Schubert, 153 ; Smith, 41 ; Spooner, 95 ; Stevens, 94 ; Madison Mills, 24, 25. See also Farwell mill banned near, 141; on west side, 108. See also Vilas, 51 ; Whelan, 125 . See also Madison: commis- Madison Ministerial Association, 204 organized labor; names and types of specific sion government proposed for; names of specific Madison Muslin Underwear Co., 159 industries mayors Madison Mutual Insurance Company, 25, 56 Maple Bluff (formerly McBride’s Point), 14, 50, 86, 116, Mazarro, John and Tony, 188 Madison Neighborhood Centers, 224 216; Executive Residence and fence in, 76; Farwell McBride’s Point. See Maple Bluff Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association Drive in, 24, 111, 116; Lakewood subdivision’s McCarthy, Charles, 197 (MPPDA), 11, 24, 86, 112, 117, 119, 147; city’s takeover merging of, 246; stone from, for first Capitol, 18 McChord, J. C., 208 of, 185; first pleasure drives, 114–16; and Henry Vilas Maple Bluff Golf Club, 199 McCormick, William, 223 Zoo, 182; and John Nolen, 173, 174, 178; John Olin’s Maple Street, 196 McCormick Farm Implement Company, 159 involvement with, 114–16, 119, 135, 140, 144–46, 148, maps: of changes to Madison’s landscape, 27; Doty’s McCormick-Harvesting Machine Company, 136, 136 149, 152, 153, 173, 178, 209, 226, 242; and Lake Forest plat, of Madison, 8, 10–11, 44, 161; fanciful, of McDonnell-Pierce House, 45, 123 development, 191; Schubert succeeds Olin as Madison, 25, 30, 32, 55; first, of Madison, 7; of first McElroy, Robert McNutt, 203 president of, 153; Spring Harbor donated to, 242; buildings in Madison, 13; of Indian locations in McFarland (Wisconsin), 148 and Triangle, 148, 149 Madison area, 4; of Madison as a city, 35, 47, 55, 65, McGovern, Francis E., 163 273 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 274

McKay, William, 244 Mineral Point (Wisconsin), 14, 18 MPPDA. See Madison Park and Pleasure Drive McKenna, John T., 112 Mineral Point Road, 112 Association McKinley, William, 105 mining and miners, 3, 8 Muir, John, 28, 60 McVicar, Angus, 217, 231, 232, 241 Ministerial Union, 222 murders, 176, 177, 188, 221–23 Meanwell, Walter (“Doc”), 238 minstrel groups, 42, 79, 220 Murray Street, 187, 221, 222, 238 Meek, Charles S., 234 Mische, Emil T., 144, 172, 173 Music Hall. See Assembly Hall Meiklejohn, Alexander, 148, 238 Modern Woodmen of America, 125 Musson, Tony, 222 Memorial Stadium. See Breese Stevens Field Mollenhoff, David, 27, 171 Memorial Union, 128, 162, 165, 211, 220, 237, 237 “Monk’s Hall,” 17, 21 Nader, John, 84 , 101, 103, 127, 164 Memorial Union Theater, 91, 128 Monona Avenue (formerly South Wisconsin Avenue; Nakoma Addition, 241 Mendota State Hospital. See Wisconsin State Hospital now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard), 13, 110, 111, Nakoma Country Club, 211, 218, 218, 244, 245 for the Insane 176; Atwoods’ home on, 120, 121, 168; bandstand on, Nakoma Homeowners Association, 218 Meriter Hospital, 166. See also Madison General 77; centennial fountain on, 89; designation of, for Nakoma Homes Company, 245 Hospital Civic Center, 210, 212, 240, 241, 247; early Madison Nakoma neighborhood, 112, 190, 236, 244, 245; buses to, Merrill (Wisconsin), 206 business on, 3; in 1854, 25, 25; embankment on, 113; 190, 216, 216; on Ho-Chunk camp, 190, 218, 245; Merrill property, 112, 115 Fairchild’s house on, 17, 21, 27, 37, 111, 121, 142, 168, inaugural picnic of, 177, 190; Madison’s annexation Messina, Peter, 188 241, 243, 246; hotels on, 27, 27; lakeshore park on, of, 245; meaning of term, 190; and Wright’s country Messmer, Archbishop Sebastian, 188 156; layout of, 11; Mills’s house and office on, 16, 17; club, 218 Methodist Episcopal Church, 21, 23, 54, 67 Mills’s mansion on, 53, 107, 111, 134, 168, 176; naming Nakoma Road, 190, 249 Methodist Hospital, 152 of, 31, 67; 1929 opening of new post office on, 67, 70, National Guard, 228 Methodists, 20, 21, 23, 40, 41, 89, 141, 166, 186 179, 184, 210–12, 241, 246, 252; Nolen’s recommenda- National Hotel, 13 Mexican War, 54 tions for, 140, 141, 168, 174, 174, 179, 184, 185, 241, 243, National Housing Association, 186 MG&E. See Madison Gas and Electric Company 252; other prominent Madisonians’ homes on, 100, National Intrafraternity Conference, 220 Michigan Territory, 8, 12 123, 228; post office on, 67, 70, 179, 184, 210–12, 241, National Office of Vocational Education, 224 Middleton (Wisconsin), 3, 5, 26, 198, 216, 247 246, 252; Wright’s design for Madison Hotel on, 168, National Security League, 203 Middleton Road, 238 176, 185, 185, 212, 241, 252. See also Monona Terrace National Temperance Society, 96 Midvale Boulevard, 112, 115 Community and Convention Center National War Labor Board, 208 Midvale Heights neighborhood, 112, 252 Monona Bay, 77, 101; automobile causeway over, 179, Navarra, Anton, 222, 224 Mifflin Street, 13, 65, 89, 126, 215, 240; churches on, 23, 241; railroad causeway over, 23, 61, 65, 93, 104. See NBC radio, 246 40, 41, 89; Fuller Opera House, 122, 168; hotels on, also Brittingham Park; sewage Neighborhood House, 177, 224, 225, 234; creation of, 168, 239, 252; Madison City Hall on, 42, 42, 43, 122, Monona Dairy Farm, 199 104, 148, 186, 224; murder of volunteer at, 222 168 Monona Lake Assembly, 101, 105, 105, 177, 242. See also Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company, 147 Milanoff, Olgivanna, 219 Wisconsin Sunday School Assembly Nelson, Charles, 244, 245 military roads, 8, 12 Monona Lake Front Improvement (Nolen’s plans for), Nelson, John M., 179 Miller’s Park, 222, 223 172–73 Nelson, Robert, 198 mills. See grist mills; planing mills; sawmills; sorghum; Monona Lake Park, 144, 177, 241. See also B. B. Clarke Nelson Realty Company, 244, 245 woolen mills; names of specific mills Beach and Park New Glarus (Wisconsin), 227 Mills, Maria, 16 Monona Land Company, 94 New Orpheum Theatre, 180, 211, 229, 232 Mills, Simeon, 12–14, 16 , 16, 21, 27, 31, 101, 106, 107, 110; Monona Park, 105. See also Olin Park newspapers: in Madison, 14, 100. See also names of in Civil War, 16, 50; “Elmside” farm of, 16, 53; home Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, specific newspapers of, 16, 17, 53, 107, 111, 134, 168, 176; National Historic 85, 179, 240 “new urbanism,” 191 District named for, 16, 22, 44, 44, 55, 106, 110, 111, Monroe (Wisconsin), 249 New Washington Hotel, 152 169, 206, 207; and Park Hotel, 80; and railroad Monroe, James, 12 Nichols, Abner, 13, 14 tracks’ location, 53, 55; and second Capitol, 63; and Monroe Street, 49, 103, 108, 234, 249 Nichols Station apartments, 177 University Addition acquisition, 29. See also Mills Montgomery, Dudley, 216 Niebuhr, Henry, 135, 156 Street Montgomery, F. W., 188, 202, 216 Nine Springs tract, 226 Mills Building, 168, 176 Montgomery, Warren, 216 9XM radio station, 176, 203, 238 Mills Street, 16, 32, 68, 147, 155, 166, 166, 179, 224 Montgomery Ward Company, 153, 211, 247 Ninth Ward, 188 Milton Street, 166, 187, 188, 222 Moran, Thomas, 83 Noe, Jessie Bartlett, 244 Milton Street Gang, 222 Morrill Act, 163 Noe Woods, 245 Milwaukee (Wisconsin), 24, 159, 163; efforts to move Morrison, James, 13, 18, 19 Noland, A. M., 54 capital to, 14, 19, 33, 39, 42, 63, 80 Morris Street. See Main Street Noland, William, 54 , 54, 91 Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad, 21, 23, 25, 39 Morse, Samuel, 94 Nolden Hotel, 71, 229 Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien Railroad, 53, 55 Moseley, James, 92 Nolen, John, 73, 90, 172, 172–74 , 205, 214; on Milwaukee Road Railroad (Chicago, Milwaukee and Moseley Brothers, 49 Arboretum, 244; and Brittingham Park boathouse St. Paul Railroad), 35, 53, 102; depots of, 65, 66, 89, Moulton, Hiram, 75, 95 , 110, 117 and bathhouse, 148, 182; “Grand Mall” idea of, 11, 91, 102, 141, 152, 167, 169; freight yards of, 199, 246 mound-builders. See effigy mounds 140, 141, 168, 172–74, 174, 179, 184, 185, 241, 243, 252; roundhouse of, 77, 104, 214; tracks of, 133, 214, 214; Mound Street, 154, 166, 186, 224 “Great Esplanade” idea of, 11, 140, 141, 172–74, 174; view from trestle of, 149 movies, 232; at the Majestic Theatre, 164, 232; on State on Madison, 139, 142, 175, 176, 186, 189, 207, 209, 210, Milwaukee Street (formerly Fort Winnebago Road), Street, 210, 211, 227, 229, 232. See also specific movie 226, 239, 250, 252; Madison: A Model City by, 10, 140, 24, 161, 241 theaters 145, 161, 176, 178–79, 205, 243, 249; Madison during 274 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 275

visit of, 168–69, 170–71; Madison fires, 153, 175, 176, Organic Act, 8 Peabody, Arthur, 34, 165, 196, 237, 238, 240 178; Madison hires, 172–74, 178–79, 242; plans of, for organized labor, 109, 126, 136–37, 230; and Ku Klux Peck, Eben, 12–14, 18 South Campus, 166, 179; on State Street, 127, 174, Klan, 234; National Guard used against, in Great Peck, Rosaline, 12–14, 14, 110 178, 181, 184, 193, 249; on Vilas Park, 146; visits Depression, 228; in 1918 Labor Day parade, 204; Peck, Victoriana Wisconsiana, 13 Madison in 1934, 249; on Yahara River Parkway, 145 1919 strikes called by, 176, 201, 208, 230; numbers of Peck’s Tavern Stand, 13, 14, 35 Non-Partisan Primary Act, 198 Madisonians involved in, 159; support for Capital Pelli, Cesar, 229 Noonan, Josiah, 14 Times from, 207; violence against non-union Pennsylvania Avenue, 133 Northern Chemical and Engineering Laboratory, 200 laborers by, 237 Pennsylvania Oil Company gas station, 217 Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company, 89, 111, Orpheum Theatre. See New Orpheum Theatre People’s University (University of Pennsylvania), 172 137, 137, 143, 147, 159, 200 Orthodox Judaism, 57 Pershing, John (“Black Jack”), 205 North Hall, 16, 21, 117, 238; in 1860–63, 45, 60; in 1871– Orton, Harlow S., 24, 25, 31, 70, 70 , 71, 93, 110, 114 Personal Liberty Society, 96 79, 71, 74; in 1880–84, 97; in 1895, 127; in 1908, 162 Orton Park, 152; attempts to establish a hospital in, 154; Peshtigo (Wisconsin), 15, 121 North Street, 133, 217 boulevard proposal for, 215, 215; as city’s only park Pheasant Branch Creek (Middleton), 3, 26 Northwest Ordinance of 1787, 8, 9 for a long time, 116, 144; naming of, 91; as originally Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, 27, 206, 211, 219, Northwest Ordnance Company, 204 a cemetery, 21, 23, 70, 75, 82, 114, 144 219, 220 Norway, 228. See also Norwegians Oscar F. Mayer and Brother (Chicago firm), 201 Philadelphia Centennial, 83, 99 Norwegian language, 100 Oscar Mayer and Company, 177, 201, 201, 216, 230 Philipp, Emanuel L., 163, 196, 198, 206 Norwegian Lutheran Theological Seminary and Oscar Mayer Theatre, 232 Philosophy of Prohibition (Bascom), 96 Academy, 35, 67 Oshkosh (Wisconsin), 122 Pickford, H. H., 234 Norwegians: churches of, 52; as Madison mayors, 152; Ott, John George, 82 Picnic Point, 43, 63, 84, 112, 114, 162, 194 as Madison settlers and immigrants, 23, 86, 100, 101, Overton, James, 123 Pinckney Street, 90, 246, 247; businesses on, 25, 25; 141, 198, 206; newspapers of, 100; as Union soldiers, Overture Center for the Arts, 180, 229, 232 churches on, 40, 41, 89; in 1860, 40; hotels on, 15, 18, 50. See also Bull, Ole Owen, Edward T., 20, 114, 115, 119 40, 41, 252; Indian encampments on, 3; mansions Owen, Ethel and Cornelia, 114 on, 41, 70, 123, 124; Mason-Baker Block on, 13, 41, Oakland Heights neighborhood, 32, 32, 108, 112, 141, 142 Owen Parkway, 111, 114, 115 89, 168; in 1905, 153; sandstone office buildings on, Oakley, F. W., 123 25, 76; schools on, 17; sledding on, 235; taverns on, occupations (early, in Madison), 15, 20 Palace Drugs, 227 14; theaters on, 41, 79 O’Connell, George, 223 Palmer, Isaac, 13, 17 Pinney, Bessie, 57, 69 Oconomowoc (Wisconsin), 134 Panama Canal, 162 Pinney, Clarence, 69 Odana Road, 112, 249 Panic of 1837, 14, 37 Pinney, Silas U., 68, 68, 69 , 93, 110, 119 Odd Fellows Club, 57, 226 Panic of 1857, 15, 24, 25, 33, 39, 41, 50, 53, 58, 66 Pioneer Block, 27, 110, 111, 168, 176. See also Vilas House O’Keefe, Mary, 234 Panic of 1873, 66, 81, 84 Piper, Benjamin, Charles, and David, 112, 185, 239, 252 Olbrich, Michael B., 91, 105, 112, 179, 209, 236, 238, 243 , Panic of 1893, 109, 134, 135, 137 planing mills, 22, 23, 65. See also sawmills 243, 249; and Arboretum land purchase, 211, 243, parades, 106, 203–5, 208, 221, 242 playgrounds: Jones’s donations of, 141, 149; John Nolen 244; donates Atwood Avenue land, 211; Madison Park Book Bindery, 101 on, 174, 185, 249 Parks Foundation created by, 91, 184, 185, 243. See Park Commissioners Board, 116 Pledge of Allegiance, 205 also Olbrich Park Parker, Cedric, 141 Police and Fire Commission, 126, 127, 199, 221–23, 228 Olbrich Park, 5, 179, 184, 210, 243, 245 Parker, E. E., 215, 217 police department, 126, 126, 157; buildings for, 241; Old Cemetery. See Orton Park Park Hotel, 16, 46, 65, 67, 69, 70, 76, 80, 80–81, 104, 113, Ku Klux Klan members in, 210, 221, 223, 226, 228; Old Law School building, 127, 162 168; renovations to, 185; streetcars leaving from, 135; murder of officers in, 176, 177, 188, 222, 223; 1915 Old Spring Tavern, 190, 249 and water tower, 153 criticism of, 192; traffic division in, 217; and union Olin, Helen Remington, 120, 128, 209 Park Hotel Company, 80 violence, 237; vehicles for, 199; women in, 199 Olin, John Myers, 11, 20, 61, 73, 73, 73 , 74, 105, 111, 132, Park Motor Inn, 81, 104 population: of Dane County in 1836, 9; foreign, in 1905 144 , 144, 146, 197, 209, 242, 242 , 243, 244, 249; as Park Place. See Sommers Avenue Madison, 141; of Madison in 1839, 15; of Madison in attorney against La Follette, 124, 147; and Chicago Park-Regent neighborhood, 227 1842, 15; of Madison in 1846–55, 20, 22, 27; of and North Western train station, 205; hires John parks: city’s purchasing of land for, 105, 147; Dodge’s Madison in 1856, 34; of Madison in 1870, 66, 67; of Nolen, 172–74, 178, 185, 242; and Madison Park and lack of planning for, 108; Doty’s lack of planning Madison in 1880, 91; of Madison in 1890, 110, 116; of Pleasure Drive Association, 114–16, 119, 135, 140, for, 11; Olin’s role in establishing, 140, 144–46, 148, Madison in 1900, 141, 157; of Madison in 1910, 178; 144–46, 148, 149, 152, 153, 173, 178, 209, 226, 242; on 149, 242; on lakefront, 144, 148, 156; land for, 51, 111, of Madison in 1920, 209; of Madison in 1930, 209; Madison’s city government, 174, 194; as 112, 114–17, 133, 141, 146, 147, 211, 243–45, 247, 249; Nolen on Madison’s, 181 prohibitionist, 96–98, 117, 126; residence of, 123, 128, mayoral support for, 153; Nolen on, 178, 179, 181, 185, Portage (Wisconsin), 3, 8, 9, 12, 85, 117, 232 242; on University Avenue extension, 215; and 249; Warner’s proposal for, 183. See also Madison Porter, Lew, 129, 131, 135, 136, 184 Yahara River Parkway, 145 Park and Pleasure Drive Association; specific parks Portland (Oregon), 172, 173 Olin Park (formerly Monona Park), 30, 55, 105, 177, 184, Park Savings Bank, 46, 68 Post, George B., 151, 184 242 Park Street, 65, 75, 95, 103, 122, 179, 186, 187, 217, 241 post office, 8, 13–14, 16, 43, 84; on Mifflin and Olin Park Pavilion, 105 Parkview, 143 Wisconsin, 46, 65–67, 70, 76, 84, 89, 168, 212, 246, Olin Terrace, 62, 81, 219. See also Monona Terrace Parkway Theatre, 111, 122, 211, 227, 232 252; 1929 opening of new, on Monona Avenue, 67, Community and Convention Center Paterson Street, 154 70, 179, 184, 210–12, 241, 246, 252 O’Neill, John F., 18, 24 Patriot (newspaper), 14, 36, 36, 37, 43 Potter, Jairus, 12 “On Wisconsin” (song), 62 Paunack, A. O., 227 , 233 Power Boat Association, 145 Oregon Road, 222, 223, 229 Pauquett, Peter, 5 Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin), 3, 8, 12 275 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 276

Pregler, George, 108, 188 Ray-O-Vac (later, Rayovac), 166, 167, 177, 200, 230, 231. Russell, Harry, 164 Pregler Addition, 142 See also French Battery and Carbon Company Russian immigrants, 141, 166 Presbyterian churches, 21, 46, 188, 192 Read, Daniel and Theodore, 49 Russian Jews, 166 President’s House (UW), 91 Ream, Robert, 13, 14 Ryan, Edward G., 123 Printers’ Protective Fraternity, 136 Ream, Vinnie, 14 Ryan, William, 216 Pro Arte Quartet, 148 Red Gym. See Armory/Gymnasium Ryecraft, John, 63 profit-sharing plans, 100 Reed Design, 120 Progressive era, 162–63, 172–74, 176, 194, 197–99, 206–7, referenda (city): 1910–20, 193, 194, 206; 1920–30, 210, S. S. Kresge Company, 21 224, 225, 228 211, 215, 216 Sachtjen, Herman W., 223 Prohibition, 152, 198, 217, 223; violence related to, 198, Referendum Act (1911), 194 Sacred Heart Academy, 111, 121 210, 211, 220–23. See also alcohol regulation Reform Judaism, 57 St. Bernard’s Church, 211 Prohibition Party, 96, 97, 197 Regent Street (formerly Washington Street), 147, 166, St. Cyr, Michel, 7, 13 prostitutes, 134, 143, 152, 156, 157, 192, 223 167, 187; bootleggers on, 222; and Camp Randall St. James Catholic Church, 108, 141, 166, 188, 211, 221 Proudfit, A. E., 69, 124, 193, 202 stadium, 130; factories on, 200; Field House on, 211, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 130, 152, 169 Proudfit, Andrew, 31, 68, 69 , 80, 91; home of, 77, 85, 104, 238; Italian immigrants on, 188, 221; Nolen’s pro- St. Joseph’s Church, 177, 186, 188 212, 239, 252 posals regarding, 179; odors on, 187; roundhouse Saint Julien Billiard Rooms, 44 Proudfit, Mrs. A. E., 124 on, 77; schools on, 236; streets related to, 114, 214. St. Louis (Missouri), 81, 126 Proudfit Street, 69, 77, 188, 214 See also Randall School; West High School St. Mary’s Hospital, 32, 32, 155, 177, 186, 188, 210 public health, 71, 89; associations for, 109; children’s, religion: Daniel Tenney on, 117, 129; John Bascom’s, 73; St. Patrick’s Church, 84, 91, 169 101, 104, 120; city board for, 126, 154; and clean and Madison schools, 62; Protestants vs. Catholics, St. Patrick’s Day, 50, 96 water, 101; consolidation of school and city agencies 23. See also Catholicism; Jews; specific St. Paul and Milwaukee Railroad, 49 for, 226; in early Madison, 23; and influenza pan- denominations St. Raphael’s Cathedral, 21, 22, 30, 34, 35, 55, 65, 80, 89, demic, 176, 183, 203, 227; Madison‘s, in 1915, 186 Renk, Wilbur, 130 91, 104, 113, 130, 168, 209 Public Welfare Association, 186, 188, 224, 231. See also Rennebohm, Oscar, 91, 245 St. Regina Academy, 86, 90, 91, 95, 111, 121 Associated Charities Rentschler Building, 180, 229 saloons. See taverns Purcell, Henry E., 183 Reorganization Act of 1866, 61 Sanborn, Alden S., 53 , 91, 119, 149 Republican Party of Wisconsin, 100; conventions of, sanitation, 23. See also garbage; sewage quarries, 112, 124 held in Red Gym, 129, 147; founding of, 24, 56; Sauk County (Wisconsin), 153 Quarrytown, 112 members of, 36, 50, 54, 57, 86, 117, 127, 159; Stalwart Sauk (Sac) people, 3, 5, 26 branch of, 163 Savings, Loan and Trust Company, 86, 226 Racine (Wisconsin), 48, 222 Resurrection Cemetery, 199 Sawin, Louisa Brayton. See Brayton, Louisa M. racism (in Madison), 105, 122, 219, 220 Reynolds, Henry, 141 sawmills, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 37, 50. See also planing radio stations, 176, 203, 220, 238, 246 Rice, William Gorham, 234 mills Railroad Commission, 191, 216 Richards, Arthur, 185 Saxton, Mary, 104 railroads, 20, 21, 36; Breese Stevens as representing, 94; Richmond, Thomas C., 182 Sayle, George, 153, 192, 199 , 205, 208, 216 causeways for, over Monona Bay, 23, 61, 65, 93, 104; Richter, Pat, 201 scarlet fever, 101 first, in Madison, 23, 25; John Nolen on, 174, 178, Riley, Edward, 108, 188 Schenk, Fred and Wilhelmine, 111, 133, 160, 231 184, 249; Madison depots for, 23, 35, 65, 66, 66, 67, Riley, Frank, 67, 108, 112, 123, 182, 229, 231, 236 Schenk, Herbert C., 234 89, 90, 91, 102, 102, 103, 106, 136, 141, 152, 159, 167, 169, Risser, Frederick A., 242 Schenk, Matilda, 160, 161 177, 205; Madison investors in, 16, 24, 39, 53, 55, 58, Risser, Frederick E., 242 Schenk General Store, 160 147; maps of, 25, 25, 32; to Monona Lake Assembly, Risser Justice Center, 227 Schenk’s-Atwood Revitalization Association, 232 105; number of, in 1871 and 1880s Madison, 81, 89, Robert W. Kastenmeier Courthouse, 241 Schenk’s Corners neighborhood, 25, 25, 133, 160, 217, 231 91, 102; passenger schedules of, 157; roundhouses Rockford (Illinois), 135 Schiller Court, 133 for, 77, 104, 167; state commission for, 100; tracks Rock Island Treaty, 5 Schiller Street, 5 for, 53, 55, 66, 85, 102, 119, 133, 178, 199, 201, 214, 247; Rock River, 8 Schmedeman, Albert G., 34, 153, 207, 215–17, 222, 223, Yahara River bridges of, 145; yards for, 199, 246. See Roden, August, 67, 157, 206 228 , 231, 232, 234, 239–41, 243, 246 also “Forty Thieves”; names of specific railroads Rodermund, John, 78, 135 Schmedeman, R. L., 207 Railroad Street, 137, 156 Rogers, Alfred, 190, 243 School for Workers (UW), 238 Ramsay, James Bowen, 166, 200 Rogers, William, 20, 103, 125 , 135 School No. 3, 112 Ramsay, Mary Bowen, 108 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 206 schools, 79, 133, 234; architect for, 46; Bashford on, 124; Ramsay, Susan Bowen, 13, 141, 147, 154, 166 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 228 child health centers in, 104; conditions in, 125; Randall, Alexander, 47, 48, 63 Roosevelt, Theodore, 54, 98, 162, 197 corporal punishment in, 62; in factories, 100; Randall Avenue (formerly Warren Street), 49, 103, 130, Rosenberry, Marvin, 244 Fairchild on, 38; first, 13, 17, 23, 29–31, 58–59, 59; in 142, 146, 165, 236 Ross, Thomas J., 240 Great Depression, 231; for handicapped, 24; Randall School, 141, 149, 165, 166, 197, 199 Rotary Club, 189, 224, 244 Johnson’s support for, 100; Kilgore on, 59, 62; Randle, Foster, 236 Rowan, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, 3 kindergarten, 100, 169; in Nakoma, 190, 196; new, Rapp and Rapp theater architects, 229, 233 Rowlee, Leslie, 156 1910–20, 196, 199; new, 1920–30, 210, 211; opening of Rasdall House, 80 Rowley, R. B., 171 ward, 35, 58, 75; parochial, 59; Pledge of Allegiance Rathskeller (Memorial Union), 237 Rublee, Horace, 50, 110, 123 in, 205; Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home as, 52; Woman’s Raymer, George, 112, 114, 117, 128, 136 Rusdall, William, 13 Club’s support for, 120. See also names of specific Raymer farm, 177 Rusk, Jeremiah, 83, 92 schools and universities 276 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 277

Schram, Peter, 188 Slaughter, William B., 8 mounds once on, 26; John Nolen on, 127, 174, 178, Schroeder, Walter, 185, 239 slavery, 24 181, 184, 193, 249; layout of, 11; lighting for, 180, 248; Schubert, Joseph, 67, 150, 153 , 156, 175, 188, 194 Slichter, Charles Sumner, 122, 123, 132 , 162, 164 in mid-nineteenth century, 61; movie theaters on, Schuetzen Park (later, Lake Park), 67, 78, 79, 133, 143 Slichter Hall, 132 210, 211, 227, 229, 232; naming of, 22; in 1913, 180; in Schulte, Walter, 230 Smith, George B., 31, 39, 41, 42, 67, 74 1915, 193; in 1917, 204; in 1929, 227, 229, 239; in 1930, Schumacher Building, 229 Smith, John Y., 19 248; residences on, 122, 123; stores on, 153, 211, 227, Science Hall: first, 60, 67, 72, 83, 89, 91, 97, 98, 99, 238; Smith and Lamb Block, 104 229; streetcars on, 135; taverns banned around, 156; second, 91, 93, 99, 99, 127, 128, 147, 237 Smithsonian Institution, 61 traffic on, 217, 226; trees on, 217 Science in a Tavern (Slichter), 132 soap factories, 108 State Street Realty Company, 226 Scofield, Edward, 76 Social Security, 197 Steenbock, Harry, 91, 218, 238 Scutanawbequon, 35, 55, 85 Soglin, Paul, 184, 226, 241 Steensland, Halle, 86 , 100, 116, 119, 121, 123, 144, 145, 145, Seastone, Charles, 247 Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, 35, 52, 154 171; family of, 86 Second Lake. See Lake Waubesa Solomon, Edward, 40 Steensland Bridge, 145 Second Ward, 89, 101 Sommers Avenue (formerly Park Place), 16, 134 Steffens, Lincoln, 162, 163 Second Ward School, 35, 58, 59, 89, 143, 169. See also “Sommers’ Woods,” 79 Steinle, George, 204, 236 Lincoln School Sorenson, Mae, 222 Steinle, Joseph, 143 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 74 sorghum, 50, 55, 101, 161 Stelting, Albert, 159 Security State Bank, 211, 231 Sousa, John Philip, 122, 196 Sterling, John W., 21, 28 , 29, 60 Segoe Road, 104 South Africa, 158 Sterling Hall, 28, 162, 203 Sekles, Simon, 57 South Africans, 105 Stevens, Amelia, 94 “Seminary Square,” 12, 28 South Campus neighborhood, 166, 167, 179 Stevens, Breese, 94 , 94, 122, 133, 141; business interests Seminole Highway, 243, 244, 250 South Hall, 21, 45, 60, 71, 74, 97, 127, 162, 238 of, 102, 108, 112, 130, 137; and City Boathouse, 119; settlement houses. See Neighborhood House South Madison, 226. See also Town of Madison farm of, 71, 87, 94, 94, 115, 130, 131; home of, 43, 117, 17th Wisconsin Regiment, 50 Spaight Street, 24, 52, 63, 152, 226; early cemetery on, 23, 123; as mayor, 96–97, 101. See also Breese Stevens Severson, Bruce, 218 75, 82, 114, 144. See also Orton Park Field; University Heights neighborhood sewage, 59, 84, 99, 101, 103, 109, 113, 116, 117, 125, 126, 132, Spanish-American War, 134 Stevens, E. Ray, 149, 156, 188 147, 186, 245; corruption involving, 153; crisis of Spanish flu, 176, 183, 203, 227 Stevens, Elizabeth, 122 1900, 164; septic disposal of, in city, 161, 164; Sparling, Samuel E., 120, 153 Stevens, Emma Curtiss Fuller, 94 treatment plant for, 177, 226. See also Madison Sparta (Wisconsin), 69 Stevens, Mary Farmer (Mrs. Breese), 94, 120 Metropolitan Sewage District; toilets (flush) Specie Circular, 14 Stock Pavilion, 162, 203 Sexton, Mary, 186 Spectrum Brands, 200. See also Ray-O-Vac Stolen, Ole, 222, 222 , 223 Shaare Shomaim. See Gates of Heaven Synagogue Spooner, John Coit, 13, 60, 95, 121, 123, 147, 178 Stoner, James Madison, 13, 209 Shaughnessy, Thomas, 126, 126, 161, 198, 199, 222 Spooner, Philip L., 20, 68, 95 , 119, 120, 136, 178 Stoner, John, 67 Shaw, Aldythe and Emma, 103 Sprecher, Adam, 62, 78, 96 Stout, James, 174 Shaw, George, 103 Spring Harbor, 242 Strand Theatre, 227, 232 Shaw, Samuel, 75 Spring Tavern, 190, 249 streetcars, 160; to cemetery, 94; electric, 103, 108, 109, Shaw Prize, 75 The Square. See Capitol Park 111, 114, 125, 131, 134, 134–35, 142, 208; end of, in Sheldon, Shepard L., 89 Staats-Zeitung (newspaper), 14 Madison, 216; to factories, 201; for Lake Forest Sherman Avenue, 116 Stacy, George, 148 development, 191; mule-drawn, 86, 96, 103, 103, 125, Sherman School, 211 “stall saloons,” 156 134, 135; municipalized, 216; 1920 map, 216–17; and Shipman, Stephen Vaughan, 46 , 63, 64, 70, 76, 80, 89, Stalwart Republicans, 163 suburban development, 108, 109, 111, 131, 134, 190, 141, 227 Standard Oil Company, 144 216; tracks for, 138, 153, 231 Shipway, Tom, 103 Stark, Paul R., 91, 112, 190, 190, 244, 245, 249 streets (Madison): clearing snow from, 71, 95; “Shooting Park,” 133. See also Schuetzen Park Starkweather Creek, 161, 243. See also Olbrich Park conditions of early, 15, 17, 20, 22, 31, 40, 41, 53, 54, 89, Shorewood Hills Village, 112 State Bank, 90, 119 125, 138; creosoted, 153; first paved, 35; grids for, 24, sidewalks, 17, 23, 61, 71, 76, 138, 246 State Historical Society of Wisconsin (later, Wisconsin 29, 89, 108; improvement of, 32, 125, 217; materials Siebecker, Lee, 245 Historical Society), 45, 248; benefactors of, 146; used for, 20, 23, 26, 155; naming of, 9, 16; planking Siebecker, Robert, 127, 188, 245 collections of, 107, 128, 132; under construction, 132; of, 25, 55, 143; repair system for, 199, 231; 1920s Simeon Mills National Historic District, 16, 22, 44, 44, curators of, 57, 117, 146, 148, 149, 190, 218, 244; proposals for, 215, 216; steam roller for, 124; traffic 55, 106, 110, 111, 169, 206, 207 dedication of, 132, 141, 142, 157; expansion of, 238; signals for, 217. See also automobile traffic; garbage: Simonds, O. C., 116, 144–46, 148, 182, 242 Forward statue in, 138; funds for, 128; in 1908, 162; in collection of; sidewalks; names of specific streets Sinclair, Upton, 129 1929, 238; officers of, 56, 117, 132; site of, 60, 127; as strikes, 176, 201, 208, 230 Singer Sewing Machine Company, 229 UW’s library, 72 Strong, Moses M., 13, 18, 19 Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, 86, 95, 146 State Office Building, 184 Student Army Training Corps, 129, 203 Sioux people, 12 State Park Board, 148 suburbanization, 134, 140, 184, 228; streetcars as Sisters of St. Mary, 186 Statesman (newspaper), 14 promoting, 108, 109, 111, 131, 134, 190, 199, 216. See Sisters of the Franciscan Order, 154 State Street (formerly West King Street): breweries on, also specific suburbs Sixth Ward, 89, 154 78, 101, 156, 156; buildings on, on National Register “subway” (for railroad tracks), 214, 214 Sixth Ward School, 135, 155 of Historic Places, 227; development of, 22; in 1852, Sucher, Mary La Follette, 110 skyscrapers, 116, 185, 189, 189, 191, 197, 199, 239 22; in 1854, 25; in 1856, 29; in 1858, 34; in 1860, 46–47; suffrage: for African Americans, 20, 54, 117; for women, Slaughter, Moses, 162 in 1871–76, 71; in 1895, 127; in 1898, 132; Indian 97, 100, 121, 124, 150, 206 277 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 278

Sugar Avenue, 161 Tenney Building, 211, 247 U-Haul complex, 102 sugar beets. See U.S. Sugar Company Tenney-Lapham neighborhood, 22, 100, 101, 176 Union Canal, 25, 25 Suhr, Bertha, 122 Tenney Park, 116, 117, 133, 143, 144, 147, 169, 179, 183, 200 Union Corners, 161 Suhr, Frederick W., 201 Tenth Ward, 197 Union House Tavern, 161 Suhr, John J., 91, 119, 122, 123 Terry, Earle M., 203 Union Party, 51 Suhr, Laura (Mrs. Frederick W.), 201 Thayer, DeLancy, 31 unions. See organized labor Suhr Building, 84 theaters: in 1858, 79; first, in Madison, 41, 42; smoking Union Transfer and Storage, 169, 207, 212 Sundays, 23, 78, 79, 96–98, 116, 198, 199 in, 232. See also names of specific theaters Unitarian services, 57, 91, 192 Sun Prairie (Wisconsin), 53 Third Lake. See Lake Monona United Food and Commercial Union, 201 Sunset Point, 114, 115. See also Hoyt Park Third Ward, 82 United Press, 205 Superior (Wisconsin), 194 Third Ward School, 13, 17, 35, 58 U.S. Bank, 41 surveyors, 7–11, 13, 18, 19, 26 Thom, H. C., 108 U.S. Bank Plaza, 25, 41 Suydam, J. V., 9, 11 Thompson, Palmer, 223 U.S. Capitol, 12, 63, 64, 242 Swarsensky, Manfred, 141 Thompson-Houston Company, 135 U.S. Congress, 72, 96–98, 103, 146, 149 Swedish immigrants, 141 Thoreau, Henry David, 244 U.S. Court House, 35, 46, 84, 241 Swenson, Anna, 101 Thoreau School, 112, 190 U.S. Hotel, 13 Swenson, Magnus, 101, 101 , 123, 156, 161, 174, 186, 202 Thornton Avenue, 137 U.S. House of Representatives, 12 Swenson Sugar Evaporator, 101 Thornton property, 133, 143. See also Tenney Park U.S. Senate, 12 swimming suits, 181 Thorp, Amelia Chapman, 83 U.S. Sugar Company, 101, 141, 143, 157, 161, 161, 226 Swiss immigrants, 141 Thorp, Anna Longfellow, 83 United Way, 120 synagogues, 35, 57, 57, 74, 141, 166 Thorp, J. G., 83, 123 University Addition (1850), 11, 25, 29, 29, 32, 32, 167, 215, Syttende Mai, 83 Thorp, John, 83 225 Thorp-Bull House, 83 University Avenue, 58, 61, 103, 115, 217; 1864 depiction of Taliesin, 185, 219 “Thought for Today” (Belle Case La Follette’s column), location of, 49; 1895 depiction of location of, 127; Talmadge, Nathaniel P., 13 206 1898 depiction of, 131; extension of, 179, 210, 211, 215, Talmadge, Norma, 238 Thumb, Tom, 35, 41 215, 226, 228; as part of new grid for Madison taverns, 13, 14, 14, 42, 50, 111, 119, 153, 161; banning of, in Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 20, 37, 58, 117, 119, 132, 178 streets, 29, 89; university plans for, 238 industrial zones, 141; banning of, near campus, 141, Tiger gambling den and saloon, 13, 14–15 University Club, 198, 239 197; in Blooming Grove, 81, 143; closing times for, Tillou, Francis, 8 University Heights Company, 111, 131, 133 97, 135; liquor licenses for, 156, 193, 198, 199; in tobacco industry, 167, 200 University Heights neighborhood, 62, 131; Camp Madison City Hall, 42, 44, 78; Niebuhr’s, 135, 156; Togstad, Morris O., 205 Randall near, 196; destruction of trees in, 50; prostitutes in, 152, 156; suburbs designed without, toilets (flush), 59, 72, 80. See also sewage development of, as suburb, 94, 108, 111, 112; and 133; in theaters, 79; in Washington Hotel, 152. See Tokay Boulevard, 112 Field House location, 238; lack of parkland in, 108; also alcohol regulation; breweries; Prohibition; Tommy G. Thompson Commerce Building, 189 land for, 12, 71, 87, 167; Madison’s annexation of, 131, Sundays; names of specific taverns Tonyawatha Resort, 67, 81, 81, 111, 134 141, 142; platting of, 86, 99, 108; schools for, 236; Tavern Stand, 13, 14, 35 Tonyawatha Trail, 156 streetcars to, 135, 190 taxation: in city of Madison, 227, 230; corporate, 158, tourism, 61, 66, 80, 81–82, 100, 105, 107, 109, 117, 122 University Hill, 26 207; for library service, 69; for parks, 144, 147; revolt Town of Madison, 190, 249 University Land Company, 190 over, in city of Madison, 39–41, 51, 58; for second Treaty of Paris, 3 University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 220 Capitol, 151; on theaters, 122; for UW, 72; in village trees, 89, 90; in Civil War, 48, 50; Farwell’s planting University of Pennsylvania, 172, 238 of Madison, 15, 20, 31 of, 21, 24, 55; Keyes’s planting of, 54; livestock’s University of Wisconsin, 238; Agriculture College at, taxis, 223 destruction of, 84; Nolen’s recommendations on, 101, 126, 136; alcohol concerns of, 96, 135, 141, 156; Taylor, Florence, 124 184; planting of, in Brittingham Park, 148; on State Applied Mathematics Department at, 132; athletic Taylor, Horace, 117 Street, 217; Steensland’s planting of, 86 programs at, 126, 128, 130; benefactors of, 147, 148; Taylor, William, 124, 147 Triangle, 148, 149 charter for, 16; Civilian Conservation Corps at, 249; Taylor, Zachary, 8 Triangle Redevelopment, 224 College of Letters and Science in, 197; depictions of, teachers’ unions, 230, 234 Tripp, Stephen, 238, 244 28, 30, 60, 72, 97, 128, 129, 162–63, 165, 167, 237; telegraph, 20 Tripp Hall, 238 dormitories at, 162, 163, 197, 238; Economic School telephone service, 75, 104, 136 trolleys. See streetcars of, 132; on 1861 map, 47; Experimental College of, temperance. See alcohol regulation Turneaure, Frederick E., 153, 161, 164 148, 238; faculty size of, in 1917, 162; Female College Tenney, Daniel K., 21, 60, 95, 101, 117, 117 , 119, 124, 145, Turner, Frederick Jackson, 34, 122, 123, 162 at, 61; Field House at, 211, 238; fiftieth 159, 164, 178, 188, 201; and alcohol regulation, 96, Turner Hall (Turnerhalle), 35, 79, 90, 169 commencement at, 162; first classes held at, 29, 43; 156; and factory taxation, 158; home of, 43, 94, 117, Turnverein Society, 57, 78, 199. See also Turner Hall first graduating class at, 44; free tuition at, 75; 123; parkland donated by, 111, 116, 133, 158, 183; and Turtle Lake, 176, 218, 245 history department of, 62, 132; and influence streetcars, 103, 134. See also Tenney Blocks; Tenney Turville, Henry, 105 pandemic, 227; Ku Klux Klan at, 219, 220, 224; on Park Twain, Mark, 122, 147 La Follette’s opposition to WW I, 202, 207; Law Tenney, Henry, 117 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 47 School of, 47, 70, 73, 93, 98, 124, 147, 159, 243; Tenney, Horace A., 20, 21, 26, 48–50, 63, 117, 141, 155 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 50 Legislature’s relationship with, 28, 61, 72, 99, 128–30, Tenney, John M., 117, 159 Twombly, John, 73 132, 162, 163; libraries at, 72, 75, 83, 128, 132, 237, 238; Tenney, Mrs. Daniel K., 117 Tyler, John, 12, 37 limnology study at, 197; medicine taught at, 154, Tenney Blocks, 13, 158 typhus, 101 162, 186; Memorial Union at, 91, 128, 162, 165, 211, 278 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 279

220, 237; music instruction at, 234; new engineering Vilas, Moses, 51 Washington Avenue (West): businesses on, 90, 152, 188, building at, 128; Nolen’s proposals for, 184; plans for Vilas, William Freeman, 13, 44, 47, 51, 74, 94, 100, 101, 222, 246; Congregational church on, 13, 20, 21, 29, buildings at, 165; radicalism at, 122, 128, 131, 132; 124, 141, 146, 147 , 149; buildings of, 27, 43; business 57, 67, 74, 77, 85, 89, 113, 130; in early 1900s, 154; in religion and, 129; Scandinavian Studies Depart- interests of, 137; donations by, 120, 146, 147; as 1880s, 104; Grace Episcopal Church on, 21, 22, 35, ment at, 83, 100; “sifting and winnowing” at, 128, postmaster general, 106; residence of, 106, 123, 145, 46, 55, 70, 77, 85, 89, 113, 130, 168, 209, 239; hotels on, 132, 195; site acquired for, 12; state constitution on, 147, 148, 168; and UW, 51, 51, 60, 147, 162 167, 212, 252; naming of, 9; Neighborhood House 20, 28; student infirmary at, 186; students of, voting Vilas Avenue, 32, 166 on, 224; Nolen’s proposal for, 179; opening of, 21; in city elections, 199; train tracks through, 178, 199; Vilas Communications Hall, 147 other religious institutions on, 55, 57, 74, 166, 169; violence at, 231; during WW I, 203. See also Arbore- Vilas County, 147 railroad depots on, 23, 89, 102, 102, 167; railroad tum; Daily Cardinal; “Dunmovin” estate; Eagle Vilas Heights, 244, 245 tracks crossing, 85, 214, 214; residences on, 20, 25, Heights; University of Wisconsin Board of Regents; Vilas House, 27, 27, 76, 110, 111. See also Capital House; 69; roundhouse on, 77; schools on, 13, 17, 125, 169, University of Wisconsin System; “Wisconsin Idea”; Pioneer Block 236; University Avenue’s extension to, 211, 215, 228; specific buildings, professors, and students of Vilas neighborhood (formerly Wingra Park): develop- YMCA on, 189 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents: on alcohol ment of, 146, 149; idea for, 103; land for, 12, 108; as Washington Hotel, 152 regulation, 97; and Camp Randall, 130, 196; and Madison’s first suburb, 108, 131; maps of, 32, 32; in Washington School, 29, 167, 168, 225 Charles Kendall Adams, 128; and Charles Van Hise, 1908, 166; platting of, 91, 99, 112; streetcars to, 135, Washington Square office complex, 158 162; on cost of Bascom Hall, 60; and John Bascom, 190, 216; street grid for, 29, 108. See also Lake Washington Street. See Regent Street 73; members of, 16, 26, 51, 54, 69, 91, 94, 98, 101, 147, Wingra; Vilas Park water: public, to Nakoma, 190; quality of, 101, 161; wells 148, 232, 238, 243, 244; purchase of Arboretum land Vilas Park, 51, 108, 108, 166, 183, 191, 236; development for, in Lake Forest development, 191 by, 211; purchase of Raymer Farm by, 177; purchase of, 141, 142, 146, 146; lagoon at, 212; materials used to Water Cure resort, 21, 30, 30, 35, 55, 61, 81 of University Addition by, 29; and the Soldiers’ construct, 26, 155. See also Henry Vilas Zoo Water Tower Horse Market, 111, 125, 125, 130, 153, 169, Orphans’ Home, 52; and Wisconsin Alumni Vilas Theatre, 238 189, 209, 212; razing of, 209, 211, 252 Research Foundation, 238 Vinyard, J. R., 15 Watertown (Wisconsin), 5 University of Wisconsin System, 148 Visiting Nurse Service, 104 Watertown and Madison Railroad, 24, 36, 39, 53 Urban Open Space Foundation, 69, 179, 185 Vitale, Frank, 222 waterworks, 91, 95, 101, 116, 124, 171, 177, 199, 216 Utah Territory, 12 Vocational and Adult Education School, 211, 224, 226, Weber Building, 229 234 Webster Street, 16, 25, 25, 29, 90, 207, 231, 241 Valparaiso University (Indiana), 226 Voigt, William, 35, 78 Welch, William, 62, 69 Van Bergen, Peter, 67, 79 Voigt’s Brewery, 49 Welch Avenue, 134 Van Bergen, Seth, 32, 68 Volney, William, 205 Welles, Orson, 168 Van Bergen Block, 21, 79 Volstead Act, 198 Wells, Oliver, 132 Van Bergen’s Theatre, 35, 41, 146 Volunteers of America, 188 Wengler, Johann, 19, 138 Van Buren, Martin, 8 West, Adeline Jane and Myron C., 205 Vanderpoel, Aaron, 29 Wakefield, John A., 7 Western Addition, 12, 12 Van Doeple, Charles, 94, 101 Wakeley, Charles T., 133 Western Street, 234 Van Doeple Electric Light Company, 101 Wakeley parcel, 143 West High School, 211, 228, 236, 241 Van Dusen dairy, 108 Walker, R. A., 234 West Lawn subdivision, 103, 112, 141, 142, 146 Van Hise, Charles, 73, 74, 94, 99, 122, 123, 162, 162–63 , Ward, James, 58 Westmoreland neighborhood, 227 164, 174, 176, 178, 196, 197; on La Follette, 202; and Ward-Brodt Music Company, 227 Weston, Frank (“Red”), 220 Memorial Union, 237; newspaper subsidization by, Waring, George, 164 West’s hog farm, 245 206, 207; at “sifting and winnowing” plaque, 195; Warner, Clement Edson, 242 West Shore Drive, 148 temperance tactics of, 156; “Wisconsin Idea” of, 162, Warner, Ernest N., 34, 209, 222, 242 , 247 west side (of Madison): college attendance from, 235; 203 Warner, W. W., 183 manufacturing in, 108; 1908 view of, 166–67; plat- Van Hise dormitories, 163, 238 Warner Park, 242 ting of, 99, 112, 112; railroads through, 102; suburban Van Slyke, Napoleon Bonaparte, 41, 41 , 141, 171; and War of 1812, 3 development in, 90, 140, 142, 176. See also Nakoma City Boathouse, 119; and electricity, 101, 135, 137; and Warren Street, 103, 165. See also Randall Avenue neighborhood; University Heights neighborhood; extensions to second Capitol, 92; mansion of, 40, Washburn, Cadwallader C., 67, 72, 76, 86, 95, 146 Vilas neighborhood 123; and Park Hotel, 80; as UW regent, 73 Washburn Observatory, 72, 89, 91 WHA radio station, 238 vaudeville, 164, 178, 232 Washburn Place, 199 Wheeler, William, 14 Veiller, Lawrence, 186–88 Washington, Booker T., 171 Whelan, Charles, 34, 125 , 126, 209, 239 Vibrolithic Paving Company, 217 Washington, D.C., 10, 24, 184 Whig Party, 56 Vilas, Anna Matilda Fox (Mrs. William F.), 146, 147 Washington, George, 9, 42 white settlers (in Dane County), 3 Vilas, Cornelia, 147 Washington Avenue (East): boulevard for, 144; Breese Whitney, N. O., 164 Vilas, Edward P., 56, 120 Stadium on, 94, 239; bridges over Yahara River on, Whiton, Edward, 36 Vilas, Elizabeth Atwood. See Atwood, Elizabeth 86; Burr Jones Field along, 149, 149; businesses on, WIBA radio station, 220, 227, 246 Vilas, Esther (Mrs. Levi), 27, 27, 124 25, 25, 76; city market on, 76; factories on, 100, 158, Wilder, Amos P., 123, 157, 206 Vilas, Henry, 51, 69, 124, 146, 147. See also Vilas Park 161, 200, 204; hotels on, 15, 18, 23, 40, 41; improving Wilder, Thornton, 157 Vilas, Levi (father of William F.), 31, 36, 49, 51, 51 , 53, 57; of, 24; marshes along, 11, 15, 58, 89, 90, 116, 133, 143, Wilhelm I (German kaiser), 202, 202 home of, 27, 46, 123, 147, 206, 219 152, 179, 207; naming of, 9; schools on, 17, 58, 143; Williams College (Massachusetts), 61, 73, 197 Vilas, Levi (son of William F.), 147 taverns on, 156, 161; Water Tower Horse Market on, Williamson Street, 66, 156; as Black Hawk War site, 5, Vilas, Mary, 104 111, 125, 125, 130, 153, 169, 189, 209, 212, 252 26; breweries on, 78, 96; bridges on, 124, 152; fac- 279 Levitan9-2e 7/25/07 11:14 AM Page 280

Williamson Street (cont.) Wisconsin Industrial Hall of Fame, 100 as teachers, 234; UW’s restrictions on, 129, 237; as tories on, 136, 136, 159; opening of, 21, 24; schools Wisconsin Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, 24 WW I labor force, 204. See also Woman’s Club on, 58, 135; streetcars and streetcar depot on, 103, Wisconsin League of Progressive Women, 129 Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 222 135 Wisconsin Legislature: anti-La Follette views in, 202; Women’s Self-Government Association, 129 Williamson Street Grocery Co-Op, 135 anti-Madison views in, 174; and Camp Randall Woodland people, 3, 26 Willow Drive, 115 Stadium, 196; and eight-hour day, 208; Farwell in, Woods, Jesse S., 171 Wilson, Woodrow, 198, 202, 205, 206, 208, 228 24; on height limits around the Capitol, 239; woolen mills, 50 Wilson Street, 169, 176; agricultural implements sold libraries for, 197; and Madison hotels, 80; UW’s Woolworth’s store, 27, 42, 122, 232 on, 89, 137; effigy mounds on, 24, 26; mansions on, relations with, 28, 61, 72, 99, 128–30, 132, 162, 163; World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), 100, 16, 17, 53, 107, 141, 142; railroad depot at, 65, 66, 169; in WW I, 205 138 schools on, 58, 89, 124 Wisconsin National Guard, 119 World’s Fair (Paris, 1900), 100, 158 windmills, 89 Wisconsin Pavilion (Philadelphia Centennial), 83 World War I, 176, 189, 196, 201; battery production in, Wingra Creek, 146 Wisconsin Power and Light, 212, 246, 252 200; grain for, 198; heroes, 205; La Follette’s Wingra Drive, 245 Wisconsin River, 8, 26 opposition to, 101, 202, 206–7, 243; and Lake Forest Wingra Park. See Vilas neighborhood Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota development, 191; Madison factories in, 159; and Wingra Park Advancement Association, 108 State Hospital), 46, 56, 69, 84 Neighborhood House, 186; Schmedeman’s Winnebago people, 3, 5, 12, 218. See also Ho-Chunk Wisconsin State Journal, 14, 57, 245; on Breese Stevens, contributions to, 228; and UW, 203; and Van Hise, people 94; building for, 40, 56; and The Capital Times, 206; 162 Winnebago Street, 25, 25, 133, 160, 167, 200, 231 on Capitol’s collapse, 92; change of ownership of, World War II, 159 Winnequah, 84 117; in the Civil War, 50; editors of, 124, 125, 157, 185, Worser gambling den and saloon, 13, 14–15 Winslow, John, 123, 157 188, 198, 205, 206; election coverage by, 36, 137; on Wright, Frank Lloyd, 20, 42, 57, 90, 93, 99, 138, 145, 172, Wisconsin: becomes a state, 20, 22, 23, 29; Constitution factories, 159; founder of, 25, 56, 91; on Frank Lloyd 205, 206; and Arboretum, 244; City Boathouse of, 20, 28; 1846 Constitutional Convention in, 12, 37, Wright plans, 218; on Hooley’s Opera House, 79; on designed by, 109, 111, 113, 118, 118–19, 119, 138, 185, 191, 41; 1846 Constitution’s defeat in, 20; 1855 election John Nolen, 173, 174, 178; on John Olin, 114; Ku Klux 218; hotel designed by, 168, 176, 185, 185, 212, 219, 241, in, 33, 36; French exploration of, 3; Indians’ cession Klan ads in, 222; on Lake Mendota Drive, 115; on 252; leaves Madison for Chicago, 90; on Memorial of land in, 3; Indians in, 3–5; as part of Michigan livestock on Madison streets, 84; on Madison City Union, 237; Monona Terrace plans of, 240; moves Territory, 8; as part of Wisconsin Territory, 8. See Hall’s inauguration, 42; Madison humor in, 161; on to Madison as a child, 75; 1920s Madison plans of, also Capitol; Wisconsin Legislature; specific cities Madison’s lack of hotels, 80; on Majestic Theatre’s 210, 211, 218, 218–19, 219; and Nolen’s esplanade, 172; and counties in opening, 164; on 1919 strike, 208; on Ole Bull, 83; on observes Capitol collapse, 92; schools attended by, Wisconsin (Capitol statue), 176, 177, 184, 198 Orton Park, 82; prohibition views of, 78, 96, 156, in Madison, 58, 59, 75, 89, 92; Science Hall work of, Wisconsin Agricultural Society, 48, 56 198, 206; radio stations associated with, 246; on 99 Wisconsin Alumni Association, 117 railroad controversies, 102; on Robert M. La Wright, Iovanna, 219 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, 91, 148, 238 Follette, 74, 157; on school referenda, 150; on Wright, Robert, 189, 227 Wisconsin Argus (newspaper). See Argus (newspaper) University Heights, 131; on water tower, 153; on Wright, William C., 75 Wisconsin Avenue (North): churches on, 89; early WW I issues, 205 Madison business on, 3; in 1868, 43; in 1872, 84; Wisconsin Sunday School Assembly, 91, 105 Yahara River (formerly Catfish River), 179; banning of layout of, 11; Madison City Hall on, 42, 42, 43; Wisconsin Supreme Court, 13, 36, 216, 222; justices of, taverns along, 156; in Black Hawk War, 5, 26; boat- Madison High School on, 150, 150, 168; maternity 69, 70, 94, 98, 124, 149; on Madison height house proposed for, 145; breweries near, 135; bridges hospital on, 186; in 1915, 192; post office on, 65–67, restrictions, 185, 239 across, 15, 21, 33, 34, 86, 124, 145, 145; dams on, 126; 70, 76, 84, 168, 212, 246, 252; schools on, 29, 75, 89; Wisconsin Telephone Company, 104, 136, 215 dredging of, 145; naming of, 24; Olin on, 144; parks Woman’s Club on, 56 Wisconsin Territory, 8, 8–9, 9, 10, 12, 15 near, 245; proposals to develop, 117, 145; sewage in, Wisconsin Avenue (South). See Monona Avenue WISJ radio station, 246 164; straightening of, 24, 55. See also Farwell mill; Wisconsin Building, 227 Wiskonsin Enquirer (newspaper), 13, 14 Olbrich Park; Yahara River Parkway Wisconsin Democrat (newspaper), 14 Witte, Edwin Emil, 197 Yahara River Parkway, 141, 143, 145, 145, 146, 147, 169 Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration, 249 Woman’s Club: building of, 120, 141, 174; founding of, Yankees, 22–23 Wisconsin Express (newspaper), 16 111, 120; on Greenbush raids, 222; members of, 149 Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Company, 165 “Wisconsin Forward Forever” (Sousa and Braley), 196 women: admission of, to UW, 28, 61; as battery factory YMCA, 22, 129, 141, 150, 162, 177, 189, 220, 224, 237 Wisconsin General Hospital, 131, 162, 211, 238 workers, 200; clubs of, as supplying food for YWCA, 120, 129, 227, 239. See also Belmont Hotel Wisconsin High School, 162, 204 schoolchildren, 197; first white, in Madison area, 3; Wisconsin Historical Society. See State Historical and Madison High School, 150; ordinances against, Zimmerman, A. G., 116 Society of Wisconsin “of evil name and fame,” 134; prohibition views of, Zimmerman, Fred R., 222, 223, 232, 238 Wisconsin Historical Society Museum, 148 15, 222, 238; property rights for, 20; prostitutes zoning codes, 185, 210, 214, 245 “Wisconsin Idea,” 73, 75, 132, 162, 164, 197, 203 among, 134, 143, 152, 156, 192, 223; reputation of zoos. See Henry Vilas Zoo The Wisconsin Idea (McCarthy), 197 Madison, 104; suffrage for, 97, 100, 121, 124, 150, 206;

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