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Milwaukee Harbor entry N. pier, SE. corner of H.W. Maier Festival Park: 42-foot lighthouse built in 1906 on the end of a pier in Milwaukee's harbor. [186] 123: Milwaukee Protestant Home for the Aged: Milwaukee Protestant Home for the Aged: May 10, 2023
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]
A part of the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Association Medical Center, the cemetery was established in 1871 as Soldier Home Cemetery to inter the remains of soldiers who died while under care in the medical center. In 1937, it was renamed Wood Cemetery in honor of General George Wood, a long-time member of the Board of Managers for the center.
The case marks the second time in recent years that Milwaukee funeral home operators have been charged with fraud. Former funeral home owner Jimmy D. Davis Jr. was charged in September 2021 with ...
Memorial contributions can be made to Friendship Circle of Wisconsin, at 8649 N. Port Washington Road in Fox Point.
A local cabinet maker built the coffin. Close family and friends met for a small service in the home. Then the body was carried by a rented horse-drawn hearse to the church for a ceremony, and then on to the cemetery for the burial. By the 1890s, full-service funeral homes were beginning to appear in Milwaukee, with more space than the typical ...
There he met and married his much younger second wife, Grace Mason, and begat two sons: William H. Upham Jr., (who was a member of Milwaukee Yacht Club until his death), and Frederick M. Upham, who survived his older sibling. [12] [13] [14] On August 20, 2009, at age 93, William H. Upham Jr., died in his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, due to ...
Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel December 28, 2023 at 6:05 AM Bruce Street just west of the Interstate 94 overpass is part of a neighborhood with heavy industrial uses that a new city plan ...