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Hendricks, born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, was a high school dropout who joined his father in the roofing business, reshingling houses on weekends.He eventually started his own firm, which grew into a 500-man multi-state operation by 1971, a time when most roofers were still local.
November 21, 1978 (10 S. High St. Janesville: 1930 armory designed by Lt. Colonel Henry C. Hengles in Spanish Revival style, with walls of colored brick and tile roof. . Originally housed the 32nd Tank Company of the Wisconsin National Guard, which helped defend Bataan in 1941-42 and endured the Bataan De
Julia founded Janesville's first kindergarten and helped start the first hospital. [1] After Allen's death in 1904, she resided in the house until she died in 1953. After Mrs. Lovejoy's death, Joseph A. Craig bought the Lovejoy mansion in order to present it to the YWCA, whose offices remained there for the rest of the twentieth century. [3]
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Mount Olivet Cemetery was established in Janesville after the local cemetery located atop Courthouse Hill was moved to a new cemetery called Oak Hill at the northwest edge of the city. [1] Catholic residents of the city, organized as the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association, established a cemetery on 40 acres adjacent to Oak Hill Cemetery. [ 1 ]
The Gazette was established on August 14, 1845, by Levi Alden and E. A. Stoddard. It was initially a Whig partisan newspaper and published only a weekly edition. Alden owned it for the first decade in partnership with a number of different prominent Rock County Whigs until selling his remaining ownership to his last partner, Charles Holt, in 1855.
The Janesville Sack Co. #1 was another occupant. [ 3 ] The Lappin-Hayes Block block at 2 S. Main St is a 4-story business block built in 1855 in Italianate style, with stores at ground level, a saloon in the basement, and above offices and an 800-seat auditorium called Lappin Hall.
The Old Fourth Ward Historic District in Janesville, Wisconsin is a large old working-class neighborhood southwest of the downtown, comprising about 1100 contributing structures built from the 1840s to 1930. [2] In 1990 the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]