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Mount Olivet Cemetery was established in Janesville after the local cemetery located atop Courthouse Hill was moved to a new cemetery called Oak Hill at the northwest edge of the city. [1] Catholic residents of the city, organized as the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association, established a cemetery on 40 acres adjacent to Oak Hill Cemetery. [1]
Sportspeople from Janesville, Wisconsin (29 P) Pages in category "People from Janesville, Wisconsin" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
Pete Lee, comedian; Tim Davis, co-founder of The Steve Miller Band; Gloria Foster, actress; Karron Graves, actress; Carrie Jacobs-Bond, songwriter; Tad Kubler, guitarist for The Hold Steady [1]
No. 64, 63; Position: Offensive guard: Personal information; Born: December 29, 1933Altoona, Wisconsin, U.S.: Died: December 14, 2014 (aged 80) Green Bay, Wisconsin ...
The Jefferson Avenue Historic District in Janesville, Wisconsin is a historic neighborhood east of the downtown of mostly middle-class homes built from 1891 to the 1930s. [2] It was added to the State and the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [3]
Steven Emil Schneider (October 16, 1949 – April 19, 1993 [1]) was an American Branch Davidian commonly called a "lieutenant" to David Koresh, the leader of the new religious movement. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was formally married to Judy Schneider, but in the community Koresh impregnated Judy and she bore a child with him. [ 4 ]
Janesville: An American Story is a non-fiction book written by Amy Goldstein and published by Simon & Schuster in 2017. It covers the city of Janesville, Wisconsin , and follows the stories of several of its working-class inhabitants from 2008 to 2013, tracing what happens after the Janesville Assembly Plant shuts down.
The area that became Janesville was the site of a Ho-Chunk village named Įnį poroporo (Round Rock) up to the time of Euro-American settlement. [6] In the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien, the United States recognized the portion of the present city that lies west of the Rock River as Ho-Chunk territory, while the area east of the river was recognized as Potawatomi land.