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Index
Madison: The Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Volume 1
Stuart D. Levitan


Note: Bold words indicate a long list of references, which are indented in the original index.


    Adams, Charles Kendall, 94, 119, 121, 123, 128, 128, 129, 130, 132, 162, 197,


    Adams, Henry Cullen, 20, 103, 108, 112, 141, 146


    Adams, John, 103


    Adams, Mary Barnes (Mrs. Charles Kendall), 120, 128


    Adams Hall, 238


    ul> Adamson, John (“Big Jack”), 126, 126
    Advance Thresher Company, 136, 136

    African Americans: assertions about, 222; churches for, 140, 141, 171; first, in Madison, 54, 54; in Madison schools, 62; prejudice against, 105, 220, 238, 245; segregation of, in Madison, 122, 195; songs of, 62; suffrage for, 20, 54, 117; UW building named for,
    238; UW scholarships for, 147; whites performing as, 42, 79, 220


    African Methodist Episcopal Church, 171
    Agricultural Chemistry Building, 162
    Agricultural Hall, 60. See also South Hall
    Agudas Achim synagogue (Greenbush), 57, 141, 166
    Ahavath Achim congregation, 57
    Ainsworth, Henry Clay, 35
    airport: municipal, 211, 238

    alcohol regulation: in early Madison, 14–15; in 1870s Madison, 73; in 1880s Madison, 90, 96–98, 116; in 1890s Madison, 117, 126, 135, 140; in 1900s Madison, 156, 164, 206, 210; in 1920s Madison, 152, 198, 210, 211, 217, 220–23, 238; and Madison City Hall, 42, 44, 78; on Sundays, 23, 78, 79, 96–98, 116, 198, 199. See also breweries; taverns

    Alford, Jabe, 68, 113, 127, 209
    Algonquian people, 218
    Allen, Elizabeth, 12
    Allen, Margaret Loring Andrews (Mrs. William Francis), 61, 62, 120
    Allen, William Francis, 62
    Allen Street, 62
    Alliant Energy, 215
    Allis, FrankW., 124
    Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, 201
    American City Planning Institute, 214
    American Exchange Bank, 201, 205. See also German-American Bank
    American House, 13, 15, 18, 19, 23, 35, 40, 41
    Americanization classes, 186, 224, 225
    American Legion, 238
    American Plow Company, 143
    American Sanitary Engineering Company, 164
    American Shredder Company, 142
    American Tobacco Company, 167
    Amerika (newspaper), 100
    Amherst College, 238
    Anderson, Rasmus B., 83, 100, 123
    AngleWorm Station, 55, 81, 84, 85
    animals: city garbage eaten by, 229, 245; in Madison streets, 15, 20, 23, 51, 54, 61, 76, 84, 107; on UW campus, 60

    Anthony, Susan B., 97
    Antiquities of Wisconsin (Lapham), 26
    Anti-Saloon League, 198
    Appleton (Wisconsin), 134, 194
    Arboretum, 112, 179, 184, 190, 210, 211, 212, 215, 236, 244, 245, 249; dedication of, 249; tribute to Michael Olbrich at, 243, 243

    Argus (newspaper), 14, 16, 17, 36, 117
    Argus Building, 16, 21
    Armel, Oliver, 3
    Armory/Gymnasium, 72, 99, 111, 127, 128, 128, 129, 129, 142, 147, 156, 162, 203, 237
    Army of the Tennessee, 147
    Arndt, Charles, 15
    Arthur, Chester, 47
    Askew Brothers, 113
    Assembly Hall (later, Music Hall), 52, 72, 73, 89, 91, 97, 162
    Associated Charities, 186, 188, 224. See also Public Welfare Association
    Associated Press, 202, 205
    Association of Commerce, 180, 230, 240, 249. See also Board of Commerce; Chamber of Commerce

    Astor, John Jacob, 12
    Athenian Literary Society, 117
    Atkinson, Henry, 5
    Attic Angels Association, 129, 186, 188; history of, 104, 117; and hospital development, 154; nursing home run by, 98, 104; as a term, 47, 104

    Atwood, David, 13, 25, 31, 36, 56, 56, 91, 117, 206; downtown holdings of, 31; home of, 110, 111, 120, 121, 168; and Schenk-Atwood neighborhood, 133; on school board, 58

    Atwood, Elizabeth (later, Mrs. E. P.Vilas), 56, 120
    Atwood, Julius P., 36, 37
    Atwood, Mary Louise, 56, 120, 120, 121, 124, 149
    Atwood Avenue, 25, 25, 56, 134, 143, 159, 160, 204, 211. See also Olbrich Park; Schenk’s Corners neighborhood
    Atwood-Buck House, 17
    auditorium: in Armory, 129; calls for city, 42, 66, 79, 210, 215, 226, 228, 239, 240, 240, 241; in Gisholt Machine Company, 100; land set aside for, 95; at Monona Lake Assembly, 105; in Woman’s Club building, 120. See also Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center

    Auditorium Committee, 240
    automobile traffic, 116, 179, 183, 184, 190, 199, 200, 210, 215, 217, 223, 226, 228, 246. See also gas stations

    Avenue Hotel, 110, 111, 168, 176
    Aylward, John, 126
    B. B. Clarke Beach and Park (formerly Monona Lake Park), 62, 144, 177, 241
    Babcock, Stephen, 13, 156
    Bacon Block, 40, 45, 46, 54
    Bacon Commercial College, 21, 40
    Badger Broadcasting Company, 246
    Badger Bus depot, 102
    Badger State Shoe Company, 158
    Badger yearbook, 220
    Baker, Henry, 156, 157
    Baker-Mason Block, 67
    Baldwin Street, 154
    Baltzell, John R., 69, 71, 110
    Baltzell, Virginia Robbins, 69
    Bank of Madison, 57, 199
    Bank of Wisconsin, 176, 180
    banks, 50, 57, 100. See also names of specific banks and bankers
    Baptist Church, 21, 156
    Baraboo (Wisconsin), 85, 94
    Barbano, Francesco, 187
    Bardeen, Charles, 162
    Bardwell, Richard, 234, 236
    Bareis, Alfred, 110
    Barnard Hall, 162
    Barnbrock, Henry, 186, 187
    Barnes, Frank, 35, 55, 84, 85
    Barnes,Volney, 236
    Barry, Patrick J., 225, 245
    Barrymore Theatre, 232
    Barry Park, 29, 167, 225, 241. See also Bog Hollow
    Barstow, William, 36, 37
    Bartholomew, Harland, 214–15
    Bartlett, Seth, 244
    Bascom, Florence, 72, 75
    Bascom, John, 54, 61, 69, 72, 72, 73, 74, 97, 98, 99, 178, 197; as prohibitionist, 96–97, 117, 156; residence of, 123; signature of, 94; on “Wisconsin Idea,” 73, 162

    Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall): additions to, 128; built on former Indian mound, 26; construction of, 35, 44; dome of, 60, 140, 194, 195, 197; in 1860–63, 45, 60; in 1871–79, 71, 74; in 1880–84, 97; in 1895, 127; in 1908, 140, 162; fire in, 60, 177, 195; Lincoln statue at, 148, 163; naming of, 72; in 1915, 194; views from, 47, 49, 61, 131, 132
    Bascom Hill, 12, 15, 22, 29, 66, 239; 1858 view from, 22, 34, 46; wooden gym on, 129

    Bascom Theatre, 238
    Bashford, Coles, 36
    Bashford, Florence Taylor, 124
    Bashford, Robert M., 13, 41, 63, 68, 103, 119, 124, 155, 178; and Camp Randall land, 94, 130; home of, 123, 124

    Bashford, Sarah Fuller. See Fuller, Sarah
    Bassett neighborhood, 22
    Bassett Street, 29, 179, 215
    Battle of Bad Axe, 5
    Battle of Wisconsin Heights, 5
    Bauer, A. E., 98
    Beaver Insurance building, 176, 185, 189, 212, 219, 241, 252
    Bedford Street, 29, 89, 102, 102, 104, 225
    Beecroft, W. G., 240
    beets. See U.S. Sugar Company
    Behrend, J. H., 229
    Bellamy, Ralph, 164
    Bellevue Apartments, 176
    Bell Telephone Exchange, 75, 136
    Belmont (Wisconsin), 8, 10–12, 19
    Belmont Hotel, 153, 185, 189, 211, 212, 239, 252. See also YWCA
    Beloit and Madison Railroad, 53
    Beloit Fairies baseball team, 239
    Bernhardt, Sarah, 122
    Bethel Lutheran Church, 100, 121, 171
    Bethel Parish Shoppe, 86, 100, 121
    Beye, Cudworth, 145
    Bickel, Fred, 220
    bicycle trails, 133, 148, 179
    Big Bug Hill, 22, 53. See also Mansion Hill
    Bird, Augustus A., 13, 14, 16–19, 24, 36, 39, 39
    Bird, Mr. and Mrs. George, 17
    Birdsall, Don, 197
    Birge, Edwin A., 61, 72, 73, 99, 122, 197, 238, 244; home of, 128; non-university service of, 150, 162

    Black Hawk, 3, 5, 26
    Black HawkWar (1832), 3, 5, 26
    blacks. See African Americans
    Blaine, John J., 222, 239, 243, 244
    Blair, Sally, 37
    Blair Street, 5, 65, 66, 102, 109, 169, 205
    Blied, Frank C., 216, 247
    Blooming Grove (Wisconsin), 143, 199, 216; resorts in, 67, 81, 81, 111, 134
    Blount Street, 65, 78, 96, 136, 152, 169
    Blue Goose brothel, 143, 156, 157
    Blue Mounds (Wisconsin), 3, 9
    Board of Commerce, 204, 207. See also Association of Commerce; Chamber of Commerce

    Board of Parks Commissioners, 116
    boathouses, 85, 89, 113, 114, 226, 240; in Brittingham Park, 148–49, 153, 175, 176, 177, 182; proposal for, on Yahara River, 145; Wright’s designs for, 109, 111, 113, 118, 118–19, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218

    Bog Hollow, 29, 89, 167, 241. See also Barry Park
    Bohemian immigrants, 161
    Bohrod, Aaron, 148
    Bolz, Adolph C., 201
    Bonanza Prairie Breaker, 100
    bond issues, 39, 144, 147, 150, 151, 178, 185, 193, 210, 215, 226, 229, 234, 236, 240, 241. See also Liberty Bonds

    Bowen, James Barton, 25, 68, 68, 75, 91, 154, 166, 200; “Elmside”mansion of, 68, 108, 166

    Bowen, Susan. See Ramsay, Susan Bowen
    Bowen Addition, 32, 142, 155, 171
    Bow Ties Club, 223
    Boyd, James, 154
    Bradley Memorial Hospital, 186
    Brady, Matthew, 50
    Braley, Berton, 196
    Brandenburg, Oscar D., 117, 124, 136
    Braxton, Gay, 186, 224, 224, 225
    Brayton, Aaron, 207
    Brayton, Louisa M., 13, 17
    Brayton, Maria, 17
    Brayton School, 13, 17, 125, 169
    Brearly Street, 24, 52, 63, 103, 200
    Breckheimer, Mathias, and brewery, 78, 106, 135, 138
    Breese, Sidney, 94
    Breese Stevens Field, 94, 179, 211, 226, 229, 239
    Breese Terrace, 49, 74, 94, 131, 211
    Breitenbach, Jakob, 112
    breweries, 25, 25, 49, 62, 78, 78, 96, 96–97, 101, 106, 135, 138, 143, 156, 159, 193, 199, 200, 207; closing of, during Prohibition, 198, 206, 217; German ownership of, 66

    Brigham, Ebenezer, 3, 34
    Brittingham,Mary Clark, 148
    Brittingham, Thomas E., Jr., 148, 220
    Brittingham, Thomas E., Sr., 34, 123, 148, 148, 148, 163, 188, 209; and Neighborhood House, 186, 224

    Brittingham and Hixon Lumber Company, 119, 148
    Brittingham Park: bathhouse for, 176, 177, 182; boathouses in, 148, 149, 153, 175, 176, 177, 182; development of, 141, 148, 153, 166, 171; Indian artifacts near, 26; Ku Klux Klan rallies in, 222; plat for, 148; turnaround for, 166, 212

    Brittingham Pumping Station, 177
    Brooks Addition, 32, 32
    Brooks Street, 186
    Broom Street, 55, 109, 121, 199; schools on, 58, 89, 124, 168
    Brown, Charles E., 4, 26, 155, 190, 218, 244
    Brown, Charles N., 117, 119, 123
    Brown,Mrs. Frank, 119
    Brown, John, 37
    Brown, Timothy, 119, 123
    Brown’s Block. See Bruen’s Block
    Bruen’s (Brown’s) Block, 21, 25, 40, 41, 45, 46, 90, 168, 209, 212, 252
    Bryan, William Jennings, 129, 147
    Bryant, Edwin E., 47, 104, 117, 136
    Bryant, Elva, 104
    Bryant, George E., 47, 48, 98
    Bryant, Mary, 104
    Buchanan, James, 163
    Buell, Charles and Martha, 131 buildings: first, built by whites in Madison area, 3, 13,
    13–17, 43, 43; number of, in 1850s, 22, 23. See also names of specific buildings and blocks

    Bull, Ole, 42, 83, 123, 152
    Bull, Sarah Thorp, 83
    Bull, Storm, 34, 119, 141, 152, 157
    Bullard, Clarence, 223
    Bunn, Ernest, 234
    Burdick, Elisha, 30, 81, 108
    Burgess, C. F., 200
    Burgess Battery Company, 177, 200, 204, 208, 230, 230
    Burke township, 211, 238
    Burns Agency (Detroit), 192
    Burr Jones Field, 149, 149
    Burrows, George B., 79, 119, 123, 141, 146
    Burrows Park, 146
    buses, 190, 190, 216. See also streetcars
    Butler, Noble, 30
    Butler Street, 13, 17, 58, 90, 169
    Butterfield, Consul, 37, 104
    Butts, Porter, 220, 237
    Cady, Jeremiah, 120
    Calhoun, John, 25
    Campbell Street, 236, 243
    Camp Douglass, 231
    campgrounds, 105, 105
    Camp Madison (CCC), 249
    Camp Randall, 168; bleacher collapse at, 196; in Civil War, 33, 35, 45, 48, 48–50, 49, 78; land for, 12, 87, 94, 111, 124, 128; Lindbergh at, 211, 238; on Madison map, 47; new, 177, 196, 196; proposals to move, 130; as UW athletic field, 87, 130, 130, 131, 142, 165. See
    also
    fairgrounds: state

    Canadian immigrants, 141
    canals, 10, 11, 25, 25
    Canal Street. See Franklin Street; Hancock Street
    Cantor, Eddie, 122
    Capital Brewery, 78
    Capital City Bank, 95
    Capital House, 13, 21, 27, 36, 46, 106, 138
    Capital State Bank, 57
    The Capital Times: city auditorium design in, 240; on Ku Klux Klan, 222, 223; on Nakoma’s annexation, 245; on Neighborhood House, 224; radio stations associated with, 220, 246; on Wright’s city boathouse’s razing, 218; and WWI, 202, 203, 205, 206–7. See also Evjue, William T.

    Capitol: approaches to, 138, 168, 174, 184; 1883 collapse of, 89, 91, 92, 92, 105; efforts to move, to Milwaukee,14, 19, 33, 39, 42, 63, 80; federal funds for building,12; fire in second, 140–42, 151, 151, 195; first, 13, 14, 15, 18, 18–19, 19, 22, 34, 46, 63; height limitations to preserve view of, 175, 184, 185, 189, 199, 210, 239; landscape plan for third, 173; protests at, 15; second, 35, 42, 45, 46, 55, 58, 63, 63–64, 64, 65, 70, 92, 113, 130, 140, 142; State Historical Society collections in, 132; third, 94, 141, 151, 168, 170, 175, 176, 177, 180, 194, 197, 209, 212–13, 246, 247; underground coal vault in, 76; views from, 104, 127, 176. See also Capitol Annex;
    Capitol Park;Wisconsin (Capitol statue)
    Capitol Annex, 210, 211, 241, 245, 247; site of, 17, 21,
    26, 27
    Capitol Boulevard, 191, 210, 249
    Capitol Improvement Commission, 151, 184
    Capitol Park (Capitol Square), 8; Carnival District around, 157, 157; development around, 66, 79; first structures on, 14; Forward statue on, 138, 138; John Nolen on, 10; landscaping of, 65–67, 76, 77, 89; lights on, 21, 31, 94, 159; one-way traffic around, 217, 226; as only park land in Doty’s plat map, 11; outhouse and fence at, 15, 18, 19, 35, 76, 89, 90, 125; redevelopment of, in the 1920s, 210, 212–13; schools on, 17; Shipman-designed structures on, 46, 76; streetcars’ convergence at, 134, 135, 153, 216; UW president’s inauguration festivities at, 28. See also Capitol; parades
    Capitol Park Commission, 77
    Capitol Square. See Capitol Park
    Capitol Theatre, 180, 211, 227, 229, 232, 233
    Cardinal Hotel, 169
    Carnegie, Andrew, 150
    Carnival District, 157, 157
    Carpenter, S. D. (“Pump”), 36, 82
    Carpenter, S. H. (professor), 73
    carpenters, 136–37, 159, 208, 230, 231
    carpenter unions, 208, 230, 231
    Carroll Street (North), 61, 197; boathouses on, 109, 111, 113, 118, 118–19, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218; lumberyards on, 148; Madison Free Library on, 150, 150; mansions on, 41, 43, 43, 86, 94, 100, 117, 121, 121, 123; schools on, 150, 197; skyscraper on, 189; Wisconsin State Journal plant on, 117

    Carroll Street (South): AngleWorm Station on, 55, 84, 85; churches on, 55, 74, 104, 239; hotels on, 80, 168; student soldiers on, 203
    Carson Gulley Commons, 238
    Casa di Bambini (Neighborhood House), 224
    Cass, Lewis, 12
    Cassoday, J. B., 94
    Castle and Doyle coal company, 227
    Catfish River. See Yahara River
    Catholicism, 74, 126, 199, 220. See also cemeteries:
    Catholic; Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters; specific
    Catholic churches
    Catlin, John, 13–14, 21, 24, 43, 43, 67
    cemeteries: Catholic, 32, 32, 199; Orton Park formerly,
    21, 23, 70, 75, 82, 91, 114, 144. See also Forest Hill Cemetery
    census (Wisconsin Territory), 8
    Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia), 83, 99
    Central High School (formerly Madison High School), 150, 226, 234, 236
    Central Park (proposed, for Madison), 179
    Century magazine, 238
    Chadbourne, Paul A., 28, 61, 72, 100, 197
    Chadbourne Hall. See Ladies Hall
    Chamberlin, Thomas, 97, 98, 128, 132, 209
    Chamber of Commerce, 199. See also Association of Commerce; Board of Commerce
    Chandler Street, 108, 155, 196
    Chapman, Chandler B., 78, 119, 191, 249
    Charter Street, 166
    chautauquas. See Monona Lake Assembly
    Chemistry Hall, 162, 237
    Chicago (Illinois), 12, 16, 24, 45, 229, 233; in Civil War, 49, 50; Columbian Exposition in, 100, 138; fire in, 15, 24, 46, 117, 121; railroads to, 53
    Chicago, Madison and Northern Railroad, 102, 102. See also Illinois Central Railroad
    Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, 65. See also Milwaukee Road Railroad
    Chicago and NorthWestern Railroad, 35, 50, 53, 55, 62, 65–67, 69, 91, 93; depots of, 65, 66, 89, 90, 103, 106, 152, 169, 177, 205; filling in marshes near, 207; and Gisholt factory, 201; as Madison’s first railroad line, 102; WWI draftees at depot of, 205

    Chippewa people, 12, 24
    Chi Psi fraternity, 123, 195
    cholera, 23
    Christian Dick Block, 138, 169
    Christ Presbyterian Church, 188, 192
    Christy Minstrels, 42, 79
    churches: for African Americans, 140, 141, 171; early, in
    Madison, 12, 13, 15, 20–22, 23, 29, 35, 42, 74, 74. See also names of specific churches
    Churchill Building. See Gay Building
    Church of Christ, 57
    Cinema Theatre, 232
    City Beautiful movement, 172, 178
    City Boathouse, 109, 111, 113, 118, 119, 138, 185, 191, 218
    City Car Company, 102
    city council. See Madison Common Council
    City-County Building, 16, 121, 184, 226
    City Functional school, 172, 178
    City High School. See Madison High School
    City Horse Barn, 177
    City Hotel, 13
    City Isolation Hospital, 211
    City Market, 38, 76, 153, 169, 177, 189, 199. See also Water Tower Horse Market
    City Market neighborhood, 189
    “City of the Four Lakes,” 8–9
    Civic Center: 1980 building of, 232; Monona Avenue
    designated for, 210, 212, 241, 247, 252
    Civic Club, 62, 186
    Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 249
    civil service, 198, 242
    Civil War, 48–53, 63, 125, 127, 147; both General Bryants’ service in, 47; Lucius Fairchild in, 37, 48, 50, 50; memorabilia of, 151; Orton and, 70; Shipman’s involvement in, 46; Simeon Mills as paymaster during, 16, 50; Van Slyke’s involvement in, 41. See
    also
    Camp Randall; Confederate Rest

    Clark, Darwin, 14, 16, 107, 110
    Clark, Julius, 43, 43
    Clarke, Bascom B. (“B. B.”), 62, 119, 136, 144, 215, 218
    Clarke,Mrs. B. B., 157
    Clark’s Clothing Store, 227
    Claude and Starck architects, 154, 164, 182, 227
    Clay, Henry, 25
    Cleveland, Frances, 147
    Cleveland, Grover, 106, 147
    Cleveland, Horace W. S., 77
    Clymer Street, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 25, 25, 41, 106. See also Doty Street
    coal, 76, 95, 193, 226, 227
    Coburn, Jean Pond Miner, 138
    Cohn General Store, 188
    Cole, Orasmus, 123
    Coleman, Thomas, 159
    College Hills subdivision, 112. See also Shorewood Hills Village
    Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), 100, 138
    Commercial Avenue, 133, 217
    Commercial Club, 157
    Commercial National Bank, 117, 227
    Commercial Trust Company, 226
    Commission of Immigration, 24
    Commission of Public Buildings, 19
    Committee of Fifty, 174, 178
    Commons, John R., 186, 188, 204
    communism, 207
    Community House. See Neighborhood House
    Community Union, 120
    Company G, FirstWisconsin Volunteers, 134
    Confederate Rest (Forest Hill Cemetery), 49, 50
    Congregational Church: first, on West Washington, 13, 20, 21, 29, 42, 57, 67, 74, 77, 85, 89, 113, 130; Madison

    High School first located in, 58; next, on Breese Terrace, 211
    Congress (U.S.), 8, 12, 19. See also specific Wisconsin congressmen
    Conklin, James, 68, 95, 127, 135
    Conklin, John, 60, 95
    Conklin Block, 180
    Conklin Ice House (later, Conklin Park), 95, 119, 169, 171, 183, 226, 247. See also James Madison Park

    Conover, Allan Darst, 20, 90, 92, 93, 99, 209; buildings built by, 129, 131, 135, 138; residence of, 123

    Conover, Obadiah M., 58, 60, 99
    Conradson, Conrad A., 89, 137, 159
    Conscription Act, 202
    The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States (Van Hise), 162
    Consumers Gas Company, 94
    Cooke, Chauncey H., 50
    Coon, S. Park, 48
    Cooper, Henry, 242
    Corscot, John, 13, 19, 54, 109, 116, 125, 137, 153, 209
    Corscot, Julia, 125
    Council of Defense, 189, 202, 205, 207
    Cramton, Nat, 151
    croquet, 83
    Crowley, Leo, 214
    Currier, Charles, 30
    Curry, John Stuart, 148
    Curtis,William Dexter, 34, 152, 156, 188, 205

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