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La Crosse (/ l ə ˈ k r ɒ s / ⓘ lə-KROSS) [6] is a city in and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. [7] La Crosse's population was 52,680 as of the 2020 census. [2]
Nathan Myrick (July 7, 1822 in Westport, New York – June 4, 1903 in St. Paul, Minnesota) was a fur trader who founded La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1841. Myrick was in the fur trade in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin before traveling north to establish a fur trading post in what is now La Crosse.
He did not run for re-election in 1872, but ran for Wisconsin State Assembly in the Fall election that year, and was chosen to represent his county in the 26th Wisconsin Legislature. [5] He was also president of the La Crosse Temperance League. [1] In the midst of the Panic of 1873, he was selected as president of the First National Bank of La ...
In 1920, a local newspaper publisher turned politician donated his private library to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, containing numerous historical works that detailed the development of ...
St. Rose of Viterbo Convent is the motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, an American religious congregation, which is located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The convent is dedicated to Rose of Viterbo, a 13th-century Franciscan tertiary who was a noted mystic and street preacher in Italy who died while still a teenager. [1]
Taylor returned to La Crosse in 1879, and changed his middle name from Edward to Edwin. On October 15, 1885, he married Mary Hall of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. She is mentioned only once in located records. [8] There were no known children from this marriage. Taylor wrote articles for several of La Crosse's newspapers and for Chicago's Inter ...
The district is made up of a residential neighborhood, including many of the earliest elaborate homes in the city. [2] [3] These include the 1859 Italianate Laverty-Martindale house, [4] the 1871 Italian Villa-styled Webb-Withee house, the 1874 Italianate Governor George Peck house, [5] the 1884 Stick style Frank Burton house, the 1886 Queen Anne Crosby house, [6] and the 1914 Prairie style ...
James Joseph Hogan (July 6, 1837 – September 8, 1914) was a grocer, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer who was a native of British North America. He was the 17th mayor of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the 36th speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly.