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The Grant County Herald Independent is a newspaper printed in Lancaster, Wisconsin. Owned by Morris Multimedia , it is the state's oldest weekly newspaper. The newspaper was first published in 1843 under the name of the Grant County Herald .
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Lancaster, Wisconsin. Pages in category "People from Lancaster, Wisconsin" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Holloway was a member of the Assembly during the 1871 session and of the Senate from the 16th District during the 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875 session. In 1874, he was chosen to be President Pro Tem.
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George Barnett (1859–1930), commandant of the United States Marine Corps (Lancaster, Boscobel) Stuart E. Barstad (1929–2009), Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force ( Colfax ) William A. Barstow (1813–1865), Union Army general (Waukesha, Janesville)
Reuben Benoni Showalter (June 3, 1842 – January 27, 1912) was an American mason, banker, and Republican politician from Grant County, Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly during the 1887 and 1889 sessions, and served as the 8th mayor of Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Lancaster is located in the unglaciated "Driftless Area" of southwest Wisconsin whose topography is strikingly different from that of the rest of the state. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 3.01 square miles (7.80 km 2 ), all of it land.
Grant County is the most southwestern county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,938. [2] Its county seat is Lancaster and its largest city is Platteville. [3] The county is named after the Grant River, in turn named after a fur trader who lived in the area when Wisconsin was a territory. [4]