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The community that built St. Anne's was chiefly German and German-Bohemian, mainly people who immigrated from around the border between Bohemia and Bavaria from 1881 to 1883. [2] Clergy first came to St. Anne's community by horseback or rail for services in homes. [3] In 1884 the Wisconsin Central Railroad donated a
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
By 1881, St. Anna consisted of a wooden shoe factory, several general stores, and two hotels. [3] The Chilton Times-Journal said that St. Anna was "once the center of the wooden shoe industry in Wisconsin." [5] The cornerstone for the community's new brick block church was laid on November 4, 1895, and the structure was still used as of 2014 ...
Elizabeth Ann Richardson (8 June 1918 – 25 July 1945) was a volunteer for the American Red Cross during World War II known for being one of the four women buried at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.
St. Bernard Catholic Church, in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, is a parish church in the Diocese of Madison. The parish was founded in 1907 and the church building was completed in 1927. In 2023, Bishop Donald J. Hying petitioned the Holy See to designate the church building as the diocesan cathedral. Pope Francis erected St. Bernard's as ...
The Williams house is a Queen Anne style Victorian home that has been on the Wisconsin State and National Register of Historic Places since 2005. [citation needed] The home is known officially on the historical register as the Williams, William G. and Anne, House. [1] It was built by W. G. Williams, a banker in the small town. [2]
George Orson Welles was born May 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a son of Richard Head Welles [13]: 26 [14] [a] and Beatrice Ives Welles (née Beatrice Lucy Ives). [14] [15]: 9 [b] He was named after one of his great-grandfathers, Kenosha attorney Orson S. Head, and his brother George Head.
The St. Mary of the Angels Church and Monastery is a Roman Catholic parish located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Green Bay. [1] Description