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International Institute of Wisconsin

Author: Katie Steffan
A group of children and a few adults stand in a semi-circle in Zeidler Park's white-colored gazebo. Two kids and an adult on the right side hold trophies. Some children wear headcovers in different colors.
For almost a century, the International Institute of Wisconsin has had the mission of helping immigrants establish themselves in the Milwaukee community. The International Institute of Milwaukee County was founded in 1923 in Milwaukee by Edna H. Merrell under the auspices of the YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YWCA). It was also later affiliated with American… Read More

Interurban Transit

Author: H. Roger Grant
Grayscale wide shot of an interurban car with "Oconomowoc" sign on the top front part of its body. Some passengers are seated by the front window. A conductor with eight buttons on his jacket stands at the front. The car passes a building and trees in the background. The bottom of this photograph reads "Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company, Car on 1200 Volt Direct Current System."
During the early years of the twentieth century, residents of greater Milwaukee were not immune from “interurban madness” that swept much of the United States, being especially intense in the Midwest. Once individuals, investors, and others grasped the potential of electric intercity railways, they recognized the advantages of this alternative to steam railroads for passenger… Read More

Ione Quinby Griggs

Author: Genevieve G. McBride
Grayscale-colored medium shot of Ione Quinby Griggs from the waist up sitting in a white collared shirt, dark cardigan, glasses, and a hat. She sits next to a desk with a typewriter on it. Her eyes glance down at a piece of paper in her right hand.
An advice columnist for more than half a century, Ione Quinby Griggs (1891-1991) became a beloved Milwaukee icon. Famed in 1920s Chicago’s “Jazz Age” as a front-page “girl reporter,” her reportorial reputation came from coverage of women of lesser repute, “murderesses,” and mobsters’ molls of Chicago’s most notorious decade. However, her reportorial range encompassed women… Read More

Irish

Author: Timothy McMahon
Three men in suits. John Doyne smiles in the middle and William O'Donnell on the right holds a ribbon that Doyne has just cut. Doyne glances down at scissors he holds with his right hand. They stand in front of a vehicle with a "Lincoln" sign on its upper front. Someone raises a microphone from below directionally at Doyne.
Irish and Irish-American residents have been an important part of southeastern Wisconsin since the 1830s, creating a distinctive subculture that combined engagement in civic and business affairs with attention to cultural and political concerns in Ireland. As early as 1839, Dublin-born lawyer, journalist and businessman Hans Crocker helped launch the Milwaukee Lyceum—the precursor to the… Read More

Irish Fest

Author: Karalee Surface
A poster entitled "Irish Fest" combines multiple colors in its unique design that features two mythological animal figures and a profusion of Celtic knots embedded in an articulated cross. The bottom part of the poster reads, "August 21-23, 1981, Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
Initially inspired by the success of Festa Italiana, Irish Fest blossomed into a world-renowned celebration of Irish culture and heritage. Local Irish musician and president of the Shamrock Club, Ed Ward, led the way in organizing the first Irish Fest in 1981, which met with strong community support. The festival grew to include not only… Read More

Iron Ring

Author: Christopher Mark Miller
A map of Milwaukee County shows the areas of the suburban municipalities that surround the city of Milwaukee. Each area is marked by the municipalities' names written in large fonts. The map also displays lines symbolizing various types of roadways, railroads, public facilities, and the state, county, and civil town boundaries, among others.
As used in Southeastern Wisconsin, the phrase “Iron Ring” refers to the suburban municipalities that surround the city of Milwaukee and prevent it from annexing new territory. Suburbs abutting Milwaukee emerged primarily in two waves: the first from 1879 to 1919 and the second during the 1950s and 1960s, a movement greatly advantaged by passage… Read More

Italians

Author: Justin Smith
Grayscale portrait of William Calvano smiling in a suit and tie. He stands beside Joseph Bruno and Dorothy Matranga, who sit next to a long desk full of documents. Hanging behind them is a circular UNICO logo.
Italian immigrants began to come to Milwaukee, especially from Sicily, in significant numbers in the 1890s. They settled primarily in the Third Ward after the 1892 fire that devastated the ward. The community grew over the next generation, building a close-knit neighborhood and vibrant cultural presence in the city. By 1920, a few years before… Read More

Jackson

Author: Krista Grensavitch
A plat map entitled "Plat of Jackson" shows property ownership in the Town of Jackson, Washington County. Both the size and owners of farmsteads are noted, along with the acreage of the property. In the left center of the square-shaped map is the Village of Jackson area outlined by black dash-dotted lines and red dash-dotted lines.
Located in southeastern Washington County, and originally 36 square miles, the Town of Jackson incorporated on January 21, 1846. Early settlers of the Town made land entries as early as 1843. The Town experienced rapid settlement; just two years later 149 land entries were made. A majority of the early settlers of the Town of… Read More

Jacob F. Friedrick

Author: Joseph B. Walzer
Sepia-colored photograph of five men smiling in suits and ties, standing next to each other behind a wide desk. Jacob Friedrick stands second from the left in glasses looking to the right.
Jacob “Jake” Frank Friedrick (1892-1978) was a prominent labor leader and first president of the Milwaukee County Labor Council, significant public servant, and president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents. Born in Perjamos, Hungary (now Periam, Romania), Friedrick migrated to Milwaukee with his family in 1904. Friedrick began working as a teenager,… Read More

Jacques Marquette

Author: Bethany Harding
Statue of Jacques Marquette in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. The sculpture stands on a base that is inscribed "Wisconsin's Tribute--James Marquette S.J., who, with Louis Jolliet, discovered the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wis., June 17, 1673." On the left is a statue with a base that reads "New Jersey." A sturdy pillar stands behind Marquette's statue, another one is on the right.
Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) was a Jesuit missionary best known for exploring the upper Mississippi River with Louis Jolliet. Born in Laon, France, Marquette became a member of the Society of Jesus at the age of seventeen. He was assigned to the missionary outpost of Quebec in 1666. Having envisioned being a missionary since boyhood, Marquette… Read More

James Groppi

Author: Steven M. Avella
Grayscale full shot of Father James Groppi sitting with a group of young people in his glasses and clergy shirt. He sits in the middle while putting on his left shoe. Some of the marchers wear sweatshirts that read "Milwaukee N.A.A.C.P Youth Council."
James Groppi (1930-1985) was the most famous cleric in the history of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He was born November 16, 1930, raised in a home attached to his family’s grocery store in Bay View, and attended nearby Immaculate Conception Church as well as Boys Tech and Bay View high schools. Feeling a… Read More

Jane Bradley Pettit

Author: Brian Mueller
Medium shot of Jane Bradley Pettit in a bright red sweater and blazer and black on the lower half of her body. She sits on a purple bench next to a flaming fireplace. Pettit wears glasses and a necklace. She smiles while making direct eye contact with the camera lens. Her clasped hands are placed on her lap. A stone wall surrounds the fireplace in the background. Some fireplace pokers ornamented with brass are placed vertically on the right background.
Called “Milwaukee’s No. 1 philanthropist,” Jane Bradley Pettit (1918-2001) earned the respect of an entire city as a result of her selfless giving to educational, cultural, and entertainment causes. Jane Bradley Pettit was born Margaret Jane Sullivan to Dwight Sullivan and Margaret “Peg” Blakney Sullivan. After they divorced, Harry Lynde Bradley, a co-founder with his… Read More

Japanese

Author: Bill Reck
A mother on the left and her two sons on the right touch their heads with both hands while singing. They stand in kimonos on a platform decorated with traditional Japanese ornaments.
The presence of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in the Milwaukee area has been a function of America’s complex political history with Japan. From the late nineteenth to the early 20th century, a small migration of Japanese settled on the West Coast and Hawaii. Racial restrictions to the naturalization of non-white immigrants made the immigrant… Read More

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Author: Jenna Jacobs
A high-angle long shot displays a speaker on stage in front of a large audience sitting in a big hall. People sit in stadium seats and on the floor of the arena. The speaker stands on a stage surrounded by flowers, behind a podium, in a suit.
In 2015, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society—the publishing arm of the Jehovah’s Witnesses—counted a monthly average of 1,195,081 actively preaching Jehovah’s Witnesses in the United States. While the Society does not keep numbers for individual communities, a 2014 Pew Research Center survey estimated that roughly one percent of adult Wisconsinites self-identified as Witnesses. In… Read More

Jewish Museum Milwaukee

Author: Jane Avner
Outdoor monument sign of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee on the left. The sign stands on a green lawn under the shade of trees. A few feet to the right is a tall wall inscribed "Jewish Museum Milwaukee."
The Jewish Museum Milwaukee (JMM), a program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation (MJF), has its roots in 1986, when Clarice Resnick and Kathleen Bernstein established the Milwaukee Jewish Archives (later Historical Society), which collected personal documents, institutional records, photographs, and artifacts. When the MJF undertook a capital campaign to modernize its buildings, plans included a… Read More

Jews

Author: Jane Avner
Facade of the home of Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun against the blue sky. The building features the Star of David symbol at the top front of the exterior wall.
Who is a Jew? The difficulties of definition were apparent in two recent publications. In 2011, the Milwaukee Jewish Federation commissioned a study which concluded that there were approximately 25,600 Jews in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. A 2013 Milwaukee Magazine article, using a measure of synagogue membership, said there were fewer than 9,000. Defining Jews… Read More

John Mitchell

Author: Bethany Harding
A painted portrait of John Mitchell from the chest up in a glasses and notched lapel suit. His face gazes to the right.
Only son of financier Alexander Mitchell and father of aviator William “Billy” Mitchell, John Lendrum Mitchell (1842-1904) was a prominent banker, Civil War veteran, philanthropist, and legislator. A self-described farmer, Mitchell’s interests included scientific agriculture, horse breeding, social reform, literature, and art, all of which he pursued at his Milwaukee-area estate Meadowmere. Mitchell was a… Read More

John W. Schmitt

Author: Kenneth Germanson
Grayscale photograph of John W. Schmitt in a suit and tie on the left and Jesus Salas in a collared shirt on the right. Both look at documents on the table in front of them.
John W. Schmitt (b. February 3, 1920, in Milwaukee), as president of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO (1966-86), is credited with strengthening the labor federation and its impact on state policy by building grassroots political action programs. He grew up in the Depression; after army service during World War II, he worked in Milwaukee breweries, becoming… Read More

Johnson Controls

Author: Jenna Jacobs
Page 4 of a book displaying the facade of the Johnson Service Company building. Dozens of vintage cars are parked near the building. The image caption reads "Main Office and Factory of Johnson Service Company Milwaukee, Wis." Written beneath is the building's location and design description.
With operational headquarters in Glendale, Johnson Controls employs 150,000 people worldwide. As of 2015, Johnson Controls remains the largest public company in Wisconsin, with $42.83 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2013-2014. In three divisions, the company manufactures automotive batteries, automobile seats, and building climate and security control systems. A 2016 merger with Tyco moved… Read More

Johnson’s Woods

Author: James K. Nelsen
Facade of a one-and-a-half-story house in grayscale tone. Leafless plants and a tree stand in the yard that is covered with snow. The house is set between two residential buildings in the area.
Johnson’s Woods is a residential neighborhood in the City of Milwaukee between Interstate 94, the Hank Aaron State Trail, Seventieth Street, and the Wood National Cemetery. It is named for James Johnson, who purchased 141 acres of wooded land in the area in 1876. The land was part of the Town of Wauwatosa at that… Read More
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