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Byron Kilbourn (September 8, 1801 – December 16, 1870) was an American surveyor, railroad executive, and politician who was an important figure in the founding of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [1] He was the 3rd and 8th mayor of Milwaukee.
The early history of Milwaukee was marked by the rivalry between Juneautown and Kilbourntown, mostly due to the actions of Byron Kilbourn. Kilbourn had been trying to isolate Juneautown to make it more dependent on Kilbourntown. For example, when he laid out his street grid in 1835, he paid no attention to the existing street layout of Juneautown.
In 1834, George Walker established Walker's Point to the south and Byron Kilbourn founded Kilbourntown west of the river. Because his settlement was smaller and less resourced than the east-west ...
Soon after, Byron Kilbourn settled on the west side of the Milwaukee River. In competition with Juneau, Kilbourn established Kilbourntown there, making sure that the streets running toward the river did not match up with those on the east side. This accounts for the large number of angled bridges that still exist in Milwaukee today.
In 1835 when the land was surveyed and ready to sell, Byron Kilbourn bought the land west of the Milwaukee River that this district occupies and platted his Kilbourntown. Juneau platted a competing town across the river on the east - Juneautown. [ 1 ]
The scheme saw railroad promoters, led by Milwaukee mayor Byron Kilbourn, bribing legislators and other state officials with railroad company bonds and stock in exchange for securing land grants for the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad route. An 1858 investigation found $900,000 worth of bribes had been paid (nearly $33,000,000 adjusted for ...
Coverage of projects such as the Rock River Canal led to the paper becoming involved in politics and Byron Kilbourn, a promoter of Milwaukee. Kilbourn feuded with Solomon Juneau , who founded the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1837 to compete with the Advertiser .
Wed. March. 3 Byron Allen Acquires Civil Rights-Era Biography ‘From Selma to Sorrow’ For Film Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group feature film division, Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures ...