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Arthur MacArthur Sr, judge; father of Arthur MacArthur Jr and grandfather of General Douglas MacArthur; Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Army General; U.S. Army Chief of Staff; Medal of Honor recipient [194] Raymond Majerus, labor leader; father of Rick Majerus; Dan Marion, MLB player [195] Henry H. Markham, U.S. Representative from California [196]
Brainard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Asa Brainard (1841–1888), American baseball pitcher; Bertha Brainard (1890–1946), American broadcast executive; Byron B. Brainard (1894–1940), Los Angeles City Council member; Cam Brainard (born 1962), American voice actor and radio personality
Kirk Douglas: The actor had a draft obituary of his leaked on People magazine's website on November 30, 2014, with the header "DO NOT PUB" still attached. Douglas, aged 97, was in good health at the time of the false report. [125] Douglas died on February 5, 2020, at the age of 103, nearly 6 years after the report. [126]
Stan Ross (portrayed by Bernie Mac), a Milwaukee baseball star from the film Mr. 3000; President Andrew Shepherd (portrayed by Michael Douglas), a character from the film The American President; Samantha Spade (portrayed by Poppy Montgomery), from the television series Without a Trace; Norbert Sykes, the alter ego of the comic book superhero ...
Calvary Cemetery contains a monument dedicated to the approximately 430 people who died with the sinking of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860. Most of those lost in the tragedy were from Milwaukee's Third Ward Irish community and is the second greatest loss of life seen on the Great Lakes.
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]
Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives) Camp Pardee, California – George Pardee (governor of California) Camp Richardson, California – Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster) Campbell, California – Benjamin Campbell (founder)
Douglas was born in 1823 in Scotland, emigrated to Canada in 1840, and came to Milwaukee in 1843. [2] In Milwaukee he worked as a "carpenter and master workman," working on the old city hall, St. Gall's Church, St. John's Cathedral , and Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) .