People from Wisconsin related to President Abraham Lincoln 8C2R: Aldebert H. Allen • Racine Wi, Pioneer: Employee of J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company; Proprietor of Livery Business 11C4R: John A. Anderson • Racine, WI Pioneer; Farmer H11C: Samuel Appleton • Appleton, WI & Historic Ship, Samuel Appleton named after him 10C1R: Henry N. Bacon • Racine, WI Pioneer; Banker, Racine City Bank; Cashier, First National Bank, Campbellsport, WI H12C16R: John Rowe Baker • Racine, WI Pioneer; Banker, Racine City Bank; Cashier, First National Bank, Campbellsport, WI 20C2R: Charles F. Barndt • Racine, WI Pioneer: Vice President & Factory Manager, Racine Manufacturing Company 8C2R: Margaret Eloise Bartlett • Married, Arthur Bernard Modine, Racine, WI Pioneer, Founder, Modine Manufacturing Company 11C4R: John Henry Batten • CEO, Twin Disc, Racine, Wi 11C5R: Michael Batten • Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Twin Disc, Racine, WI 12C6R: Adelbert Beach • Racine, WI Pioneer: Farmer H13C: Chester C. Beach • Co-Founder, Hamilton-Beach, Racine, WI 10C2R: Aurelia Belcher; Married, Arthur MacArthur II • 4th Governor of Wisconsin; 5th Lieutenant Governor, Wisconsin 10C: Elsworth Burnett Belden • Racine, WI Pioneer; Circuit Court Judge, Racine, WI 8C2R: Philo Belden • Wisconsin State Senator; Judge, Racine, WI 12C1R: Edward A. Bishop • Racine County Pioner; President, Arc Printer Company 12C: Isaac T. Bishop • State Senator, Wisconsin (Born in Somers, Kenosha, WI) 12C1R: Adelmer Bishop • Racine, WI Pioneer; Secretary, Somers Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Justice of the Peace & Town Chairman, Somers, WI 11C2R: James D. Black • Racine Wisconsin Pioneer: Carpenter, Farmer 14C: Lucius S. Blake • Racine, WI Pioneer: Treasurer, Racine County 6C2R: Helen M. Bliss • Married: James O. (Ole) Davidson, 21st Governor, Wisconsin 9C1R: Etta Alice Bradley • Racine, WI Pioneer • Married, William Jacob Hansche, Racine, WI Pioneer 14C3R: George L. Buck • Racine, WI Pioneer; President, Racine Iron Works 7C1R: Frank Kellogg Bull • Racine WI Pioneer: Secretary Treasury & Chairman of Board, J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company 7C: Stephen F. Bull • Racine WI Pioneer: President, J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company; Stephen Bull School named after him. 7C: Charles H. Bull • Racine, WI Pioneer: Farmer 7C1R: Degrove Bull • Racine, WI Pioneer: Farmer; Shipping Department, Marshall Field & Company, Chicago, IL 7C: Lydia Ann Bull • Racine, WI Pioneer • Married, Jerome J, Case, Racine WI Pioneer, Founder, J.I. Case Company 8C1R: Ezra Roy Burgess • Racine, WI Pioneer: Gittings & Burgess 10C2R: Willis L. Cahoon • Racine, WI Pioneer; American Mangle & Roller Company 10C1R: Matthew Hale Carpenter • U.S. Senator, Wisconsin; District Attorney, Rock Co., WI 12C1R: Henry Clinton Case • Racine, WI Pioneer; Junction Flouring Mills 12C1R: Jerome Increase Case • Founder, J.I. Case Company 7C2R: Jerome Increase Case • Mayor of Racine, WI; J.I. Case Company, Tractors H11C1R: John Catlin • 5th Territorial Governor, Wisconsin; U.S. Senator, Wisconsin; Secretary of Wisconsin Territory; President, Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad 18C9R: Martin Christensen • Racine, WI Pioneer: Country Treasure, Racine, WI 17C10R: Nels M. Christensen • Racine, WI Pioneer: Farmer 12C: Caroline Brown Cowles • Married, Henry S. Durand, Racine, WI Pioneer: Agent, Aetna Fire Insurance Company; President Racine & Southwestern Railroad; Vice President, Racine County Bank; President Commercial Bank; Durand Avenue is named in his honor. H2C: Nelson Webster Dewey • 1st Governor of Wisconsin (1848-1842); Member, Wisconsin State Senate; Regent, University of Wisconsin; Board of Directors, Waupun State Prison 8C1R: Ruth Miriam DeYoung • Married Herbert Vollrath Kohler, President, Kohler Company 17C1R: Henry Dodge • 1st Territorial Governor, Wisconsin; U.S. Senator, Wisconsin 10C4R: James Rood Doolittle • U.S. Senator, Wisconsin from March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1869. He was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincolns administration during the American Civil War. 13C1R: James Duane Doty • 2nd Governor, Wisconsin Territory; 5th Governor, Utah Territory; U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin 14C3R: Phydele (Toni) Gourley • Philanthropist; Married, Kingston (King) Wareb Ehrlich, Realtor & Land Developer, Racine, WI 14C4R: Robyn Ehrlich • Married, William Kenneth Eastman II, CEO, Johnson Wax, Racine, WI 12C2R: Leonard James Farwell • 2nd Governor, Wisconsin; Principal Examiner, U.S. Patent Office. 10C1R: Margaret O. Goffe • Married, William A. Walker, Racine, WI Pioneer; President, Walker Manufacturing Company. Owner of Racine Refrigerator Company, Racine Shoe Manufacturing Company & Racine Economy Spring Company. 12C9R: Lowell Louis Hamilton • Co-Founder, Hamilton Beach, Racine, WI 8C1R: Elbert B. Hand • Racine, WI Pioneer; Judge, Racine, WI; Director, First National Bank 8C1R: Mary Elizabeth Hand • Married, John D. Rowland, Racine, WI Pioneer; Carpenter & Rowland Real Estate & Insurance 12C2R: Belle Harmon • Married, Frank Alshuler, Racine, WI Pioneer; Operated Men’s Furnishing Store. 8C2R: Harold H. Hart • Racine, WI Pioneer; President, Racine Woolen Mills 8C2R: Lucius S. Hart • Racine, WI Pioneer; Heir to Racine Woolen Mills 8C1R: Sands M. Hart • Racine, WI Pioneer; Racine Woolen Mills 8C2R: John S. Hart • Racine, WI Pioneer; Secretary Treasurer, Racine Woolen Manufacturing Company 9C: Louis Powell Harvey • 7th Governor, Wisconsin; Editor of the Southport American, a Whig Newspaper 8C: Super Piper Hawkins • Married, John S. Hart, Racine, WI Pioneer; A Founder, Racine Woolen Mills 13C4R: Frank Moth Hilpert • Physician; Married, Mildred Frances (Willie) Wilson known as Mrs. F.M. Hilpert, Realtor®. 12C4R: James Horlick • Co-Founder, Horlick Malted Milk Company, Racine, WI 121C4R: William Horlick • Co-Founder, Horlick Malted Milk Company, Racine, WI 10C4R: Catherine Hurd • Married, William Robert Taylor, 12th Governor, Wisconsin; President, Wisconsin State Agricultural Society; Served in Wisconsin State Senate & Wisconsin State Assembly H7C3R: David G. Janes • Vice President, First National Bank, Racine, WI; Mayor of Racine; Realtor® & Insurance H6C4R: Lorenzo Janes • Racine, WI Pioneer; Attorney, Co-Founder, Racine Argus Newspaper; Janes School named after him. Realtor@ & Insurance; Associated with Gilbert Knapp & Gordon S. Hubbard in the ownership of the original plat of Racine; Judge, Albany, NY 6C3R: Herbert Fisk Johnson I • President, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. 6C4R: Herbert Fisk Johnson II • President, S.C. Johnson, Inc. 6C6R: Herbert Fisk Johnson III • Current President, S.C. Johnson, Inc. 6C2R: Samuel Curtis Johnson I • Founder, Johnson Wax, Racine, WI 6C5R: Samuel Curtis Johnson II • Chairman, S.C. Johnson, Inc. 6C6R: Samuel Curtis Johnson III • Former Chairman, Johnson Diversey, Racine, WI 6C6R: Helen Power Johnson-Leipold • CEO, Johnson Outdoors; Chairman, Diversey, Inc., Racine, WI • Married, Craig Louis Leipold, Owner, Nashville Predators National Hockey League; Former Owner Rainfair, Racine, WI 6C6R: Winifred Conrad Johnson • CEO, Johnson Family Foundation 12C4R: Nettie Marion Joslyn • Married, Edward H. Wadewitz, Racine, WI Pioneer; General Manager, Secretary-Treasurer, Western Printing & Lithographing Company, Racine, WI 19C2R: Gilbert Knapp I • Racine, WI Pioneer; Captain, Gilbert Knapp School named after him. Established 1st settlement in Racine County called “Port Gilbert”. 9C1R: Warren Perley Knowles III • 27th Governor, Wisconsin; 32nd Lieutenant Governor, Wisconsin; Served In Wisconsin State Senate; Chairman, Heritage Wisconsin Foundation 8C2R: Herbert Vollrath Kohler II • Chairman & President, Kohler Company 12C1R: Robert Marion LaFolette I • 20th Governor, Wisconsin; U.S. Senator, Wisconsin; U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin 13C: Philip Fox Lafayette • 27th & 29th Governor, Wisconsin 13C: Robert Marion LaFollette II • U.S. Senator, Wisconsin 9C1R: William Mitchell Lewis • Racine, WI Pioneer; Founder, Mitchell Motor Car Company, Racine, WI 13C2R: James Taylor Lewis • 9th Governor, Wisconsin 9C2R: Orlando Steen (Spike) Loomis • Governor-Elect of Wisconsin; Director, Rural Electrification Administration; Wisconsin, Attorney General & Wisconsin State Senate 7C: Harrison Ludington • 13th Governor, Wisconsin; 20th Mayor of Milwaukee 8C3R: Harrie M. Maltby • Married, Frederick J. Kidd, Racine, WI Pioneer: Secretary Treasurer, Racine Manufacturing Company; Secretary Treasurer, Wisconsin Engine Company 12C4R: Austin D. Miller • Owner & Operator W.H. Miller Company 12C2R: William Henry Miller • Racine, WI Pioneer; Owner, Large Insurance Agency H13C1R: William (Billy) Mitchell • Regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force; Brigadier General; General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, WI named in his honor. H13C: John Lendrum Mitchell • U.S. Senator, Wisconsin; U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin 7C6R: Walter Curtis Palmer • Racine, WI Pioneer; Attorney, Palmer & Gittings; President, Racine Building & Loan Association; White Buck Hardware Company 6C2R: Henry A. Parmenter • President & Treasurer, Racine Paper Goods Company 6C1R: Orville L. Parmenter • Racine, WI Pioneer; Secretary Treasurer, Racine Paper Goods 10C1R: George Wilbur Peck • 17th Governor, Wisconsin; Founder of newspapers in Ripon, WI & The Sun, in La Crosse, WI; Mayor of Milwaukee. 9C2R: John Pugh • Racine, WI Pioneer; State Conservation & Game Warden; Sailor; Pugh Marina 12C1R: Joseph Very Quarles II • U.S. Senator, Wisconsin; Appointed, U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District of Wisconsin; Served in Wisconsin State Assembly & Wisconsin State Senate H8C2R: Alexander Williams Randall • 6th Governor, Wisconsin, 22nd U.S. Postmaster General H12C1R; Harrison Jackson Reed • 9th Governor, Florida; Co-Founder, Madison State Journal, Madison, WI; Owner & Editor, Milwaukee Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI 5C1R: Elsie Stillman Rockefeller • Married, William Proxmire, U.S. Senator, Wisconsin 9C2R: Jeremiah McLain Rusk • 14th Governor, Wisconsin; 2nd U.S. State Secretary of Agriculture; U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin 14C: Richard Warren Sears • Founder, Sears, Roebuck & Company, died in Waukesha, WI 7C2R: Stella M. Sears • Married, John T. Gittings, Racine, WI Pioneer: Vice President, John Meter & Company; Attorney, Waller & Gittings 13C1R: Minerva Augusta Secor • Married, Robert Mosley (R.M.) Walker, Racine, WI Pioneer: Farmer. 12C2R: Martin O. Senseny • Racine, WI Pioneer; President & Treasurer, Racine Malleable & Wrought Iron Company 10C4R: Edna Earl Slaughter • Married, Fred M. Young I Founder, Young Radiator, Racine, WI in 1927 11C3R: Roy Ambrose Spencer • President, Western Printing & Lithographing Company, Racine, WI; Journeyman Printer, Journal Times Printing Company 6C3R: Carol Starbuck • Heir, Racine Journal Times Newspaper, Racine, WI; Married: J. Donald (Mac) McMurray, Publisher, Racine Journal Times 6C2R: Frank R. Starbuck • Telegraph Editor, Secretary, Journal Times Printing Co., Racine, WI H7C: Ella Eugenia Stearns • Married Edward J. (E.J.) Bottling, Racine WI Pioneer; Farmer 12C2R: Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge • 3rd Territorial Governor, Wisconsin; U.S. Senator, New York 11C1R: Fulton Thompson • Racine, WI Pioneer; Attorney, Thompson & Harvey; District Attorney, Racine, WI 12C1R: Vernon Wallace Thompson • 34th Governor, Wisconsin; U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin 9C1R: Alonzo Silas Titus • Racine, WI Pioneer, Waterford Milling Company 11C1R: John William Trumbull • Racine, WI Pioneer; Secretary Treasurer, Christensen Silo Company; Farmer; Clerk of the Court, Racine County 10C: William Henry Upham • 18th Governor, Wisconsin; Hometown, Racine, WI; Businessman in Lumbar Industry; Major, Grand Army of the Republic (Fraternal Organization of Veterans of the Union Army) 12C5R: Robert Malcolm Wadewitz • Director & Vice President, Western Printing & Lithographic Company 10C3R: Gordon Walker • Founder, Walker Forge, Racine, WI 13C1R: Mortimer Eugene Walker • Racine, WI Pioneer: Attorney, Simmons & Walker 13C2R: Nelson A. Walker • Racine, WI Pioneer, Farmer 10C2R: Warren Hugh Walker • Co-Owner, Walker Mfg. Co., Racine, WI 12C: Willard Eugene Walker • CEO, Walker Mfg. Co., Racine, WI 10C2R: Willard T. Walker • Co-Owner, Walker Mfg. Co., Racine, WI 10C4R: Willard T. Walker I • President & CEO, Walker Forge, Racine, WI 19C5R: Willard T. Walker II • President & CEO, Walker Forge, Racine, WI 11C1R: Cadwallader Colden Washburn • 11th Governor, Wisconsin; U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin; Co-Founder, Washburn-Crosby Company; Developer, Wisconsin Mining Company; Owner, La Crosse Lumber Company; Co-founder, General Mills H14C3R: Orson Welles • American Actor; Director & Producer. Born in Kenosha, WI H11C2R: Robert Benjamin West • Racine, WI Pioneer: Farmer 12C: Elihue C. (E.C.) Wilson • Racine, WI Pioneer; General Superintendent, J.I. Case 6C1R: Lyman Wood • Racine, WI Pioneer: Founder, Lyman Wood Manufacturing Co.; Inventor of Hardware Specialties 14C: Frank Lloyd Wright • Wisconsin born, American Architect 19C5R: Fred M. Young II • Heir, Young Radiator, Racine, WI 12C4R: Edward James Zahn • Co-Owner, Zahn Department Store, Racine, WI 12C4R: Russell Victor Zahn • Co-Owner, Zahn Department Store, Racine, WI 7C5R: Mary Joann (Williams) Sovelenko • Forensic Genealogist
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