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The Gazette was established on August 14, 1845, by Levi Alden and E. A. Stoddard. It was initially a Whig partisan newspaper and published only a weekly edition. Alden owned it for the first decade in partnership with a number of different prominent Rock County Whigs until selling his remaining ownership to his last partner, Charles Holt, in 1855.
The first mayor of Janesville was A. Hyatt Smith, a pioneer lawyer who was Wisconsin's second U.S. attorney. The first city manager was Henry Traxler, a civil engineer who had previously served as the city manager of Clarinda, Iowa ; [ 1 ] Traxler was also the longest-serving city manager, serving nearly 28 years. [ 2 ]
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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 ]
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.
Jeffrey Epstein's 'black book' and client list could be closer to public release thanks to new leadership in Washington, D.C., under President Trump.
The bill would exempt Wisconsin from any listing of lake sturgeon under the federal Endangered Species Act. The group, including Republican Congressmen Glenn Grothman and Mike Gallagher filed what ...
Hendricks, born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, was a high school dropout who joined his father in the roofing business, reshingling houses on weekends.He eventually started his own firm, which grew into a 500-man multi-state operation by 1971, a time when most roofers were still local.