Silent City

Silent City
Title Silent City PDF eBook
Author John Gurda
Publisher
Pages 77
Release 2000
Genre Cemeteries
ISBN 9780970361301

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Milwaukee's Forest Home Cemetery

Milwaukee's Forest Home Cemetery
Title Milwaukee's Forest Home Cemetery PDF eBook
Author Forest Home Historians and the Forest Home Historic Preservation Association
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 128
Release 2020-07-27
Genre History
ISBN 1467104892

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In his book Cream City Chronicles, Milwaukee historian John Gurda wrote, "What lies buried beneath the trees of Forest Home is the foundation of Milwaukee." In 1849, St. Paul's Episcopal Church purchased 72 acres in Milwaukee to create Forest Home Cemetery, a cemetery for the city and an eternal resting place for all. Increase Lapham was hired to design Forest Home based on the "garden cemetery" model. More than a thousand trees speak to its name. The first burial occurred in August 1850, and the story continues today with 189 acres of a graceful landscape and Victorian-era monuments that are measured in tons. Beneath its majestic trees are buried the city's historic founders and developers, mayors, beer barons, industrialists, pioneering women, and Civil War casualties, whose fascinating stories are brought to life through never-before-seen photographs.

Where They're Buried

Where They're Buried
Title Where They're Buried PDF eBook
Author Thomas E. Spencer
Publisher Genealogical Publishing Com
Pages 635
Release 1998
Genre Cemeteries
ISBN 0806348232

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This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.

Thirty Years a Slave

Thirty Years a Slave
Title Thirty Years a Slave PDF eBook
Author Louis Hughes
Publisher 1st World Publishing
Pages 142
Release 2006-05-22
Genre
ISBN 1421818981

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I was born in Virginia, in 1832, near Charlottesville, in the beautiful valley of the Rivanna river. My father was a white man and my mother a negress, the slave of one John Martin. I was a mere child, probably not more than six years of age, as I remember, when my mother, two brothers and myself were sold to Dr. Louis, a practicing physician in the village of Scottsville. We remained with him about five years, when he died, and, in the settlement of his estate, I was sold to one Washington Fitzpatrick, a merchant of the village. He kept me a short time when he took me to Richmond, by way of canal-boat, expecting to sell me; but as the market was dull, he brought me back and kept me some three months longer, when he told me he had hired me out to work on a canal-boat running to Richmond, and to go to my mother and get my clothes ready to start on the trip. I went to her as directed, and, when she had made ready my bundle, she bade me good-by with tears in her eyes, saying: "My son, be a good boy; be polite to every one, and always behave yourself properly."

The Antiquities of Wisconsin

The Antiquities of Wisconsin
Title The Antiquities of Wisconsin PDF eBook
Author Increase Allen Lapham
Publisher
Pages 220
Release 1855
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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Milwaukee Streets

Milwaukee Streets
Title Milwaukee Streets PDF eBook
Author Carl Baehr
Publisher
Pages 350
Release 1995
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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"Milwaukee's eight hundred street names offer fascinating glimpses into the city's rich heritage; from French fur traders to Yankee speculators, from wealthy German tycoons of the Gay Nineties to African American leaders of the 20th century. In this unique book you can read about Tom Mason, who started a war that gave the Upper Peninsula to Michigan; the bitter six-year religious controversy sparked by the naming of Santa Monica Boulevard; "Uncle Jerry" Rusk, the man who gave the order that caused the "Bay View Massacre;" Willaim Merrill's ill-fated diamond mind in Waukesha County!

Biography of Broken Fortunes

Biography of Broken Fortunes
Title Biography of Broken Fortunes PDF eBook
Author Jane Maher
Publisher Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Pages 256
Release 1986
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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