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[1] Patrick D. Jones, The Selma of the North (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 32.

[2] Diane Schwerm, “Ex-officer’s Plea Closes Slaying Case,” Milwaukee Journal, August 30, 1979.

[3] Schwerm, “Ex-officer’s Plea Closes Slaying Case.”

[1] Floyd J. Stachowski, “The Political Career of Daniel Webster Hoan,” Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1966, chapter 1; Michael E. Stevens, “‘Give ’em Hell, Dan!’: How Daniel Webster Hoan Changed Wisconsin Politics,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 98, no. 1 (Autumn 2014): 18-19.

[2] Stachowski, chapter 3; Melvin G. Holli, The American Mayor: The Best & the

[1] Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography (Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1960), 306.

[2] Bayrd Still, Milwaukee: History of a City (Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948), 306; John Buenker, “Cream City Electoral Politics: A play in Four Acts” in Margo Anderson and Victor Greene, eds., Perspectives on

[1] Max Anderson Associates, A Plan for Delafield, Wisconsin (Madison, WI.: Max Anderson Associates, 1970), 4.

[2] American Fact Finder, “Delafield Population 2010 Demographic Profile Summary File,” accessed February 18 2012, http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table; 2014 Wisconsin Blue Book, chapter 8, “Statistics: Local and

[1] J. R. Okin, The Internet Revolution: The Not-for-Dummies Guide to the History, Technology, and Use of the Internet (Winter Harbor, ME: Ironbound Press, 2005).

[2] Lee Bergquist, “DSL/Ameritech to Offer High-speed Internet Access by End of Year,” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 24, 2000, 8A.

[3] Lee Bergquist, “Ameritech Joins

[1] Don Walker, “Discovery World to Honor Center’s Founder,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 14, 2011. The article did not provide a date for Lovell’s visit, but did suggest that Harland began dreaming up such a science center in the 1960s.

[2] Mike Ward, “New Place to Discover: Hands-on Exhibits Shaping up in

[1] Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius, Swiss in Greater Milwaukee (Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, 2010), 53.

[2] “Enderis, Dorothy, 1850-1952,” Dictionary of Wisconsin History, Wisconsin Historical Society website, accessed December 22, 2013, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1285&; Elizabeth A. Jozwiak, “Politics in Play: Socialism, Free Speech, and Social

[1] U.S. Bureau of the Census, Birthplace—The Netherlands, 1860, tabulated at http://www.ipums.org.

[2] Henry S. Lucas, “The First Dutch Settlers in Milwaukee,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 30 (December 1946): 178, last accessed July 17, 2017.

[3] Arend Jan Brusse, “Reminiscences of Arend Jan Brusse on Early Dutch Settlement in Milwaukee,”

[1] Justin Heim, “If Not You, Then Who?” (M.P.A. Field Project, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2011), 3.

[2] “History of Eagle,” Eagle Historical Society website, accessed November 30, 2013.

[3] “Bovee, Marvin Henry 1827-1888,” Dictionary of Wisconsin History, Wisconsin Historical Society, accessed December 12, 2013, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_

[1] Anthony M. Orum, City-Building in America (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), chapter 3.

[2] Barbara Whalen, “The Lawyer and the Fur Trader: Morgan Martin and Solomon Juneau,” Milwaukee History: Magazine of the Milwaukee County Historical Society 11, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 1988): 17-32.

[3] Herbert William Rice, Early History of the Chicago, Milwaukee

[1] John M. McCarthy, Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the Politics of Growth, 1910-1960 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009), 194-197, 207-212; Barbara J. Miner, Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City (New York, NY, and London: The New Press, 2013), 12-13, 111-112;

[1] For history of the national eight-hour movement and eight-hour laws in some states, see Philip S. Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. II, From the Founding of the American Federation of Labor to the Emergence of American Imperialism (New York: International Publishers, 1975), 98; Joseph G. Rayback, <

[1] “Eldon Murray Biography,” Wisconsin LGBT History Project, accessed August 28, 2014.

[2] Amy Rabideau Silvers, “Murray Led Early Efforts for Gay Rights,” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, March 25, 2007, accessed August 28, 2014, http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29450534.html.

[3] “Eldon Murray,” WI Light, May 19-25, 1999, p. 9.

[4] Bill Meunier, “Eldon Murray: A Senior

[1] Membership and attendance figures from interview with Elmbrook head pastor Jason Webb, July 18, 2016.

[2] “Early Years” scrapbook entry, box 1, folder 2, Elmbrook Church Archives.

[3] Although officially incorporated in 1958, the true beginning of Elmbrook Church is traced back to the regular gatherings of the Harris, Baldwin, Davidson, Hoover, and Lutz families at their

[1] John Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: The Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1999), 210-215, quote p. 210.

[2] John D. Buenker, The History of Wisconsin, volume IV, The Progressive Era, 1893-1914 (Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1998), 170-172; “Seidel, 62, Still Dreams; Spirit Retains Bristle,” Milwaukee Journal

[1] The word “Milwaukee” may come from the Potawatomi language minwaking, or Ojibwe language ominowakiing, “Gathering place [by the water].” Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and surrounding lands various names: Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, and Milwaucki. For many years, printed records gave the name as “Milwaukie,” “Milwaukee,” Wikipedia, last accessed

[1] Harold Ezra Wagner, The Episcopal Church in Wisconsin, 1847-1947: A History of the Diocese of Milwaukee (Milwaukee: The [Episcopal] Diocese of Milwaukee, 1947), 29-41.

[2] Wagner, The Episcopal Church in Wisconsin, 41, 46, 249.

[3] Imri Murden Blackburn, “Nashotah House: A History of Seventy-Five Years,” (Nashotah, WI: Nashotah House Theological Seminary, 1966), 18-21.