On September 14, 1848, Mrs. William L. Parsons, the wife of a Congregational minister, opened the Milwaukee Female Seminary at the corner of Milwaukee and East Wells. Three years later it was chartered by the Legislature, thus placing Wisconsin in . . . — — Map (db m32667) HM
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), poet, balladeer, biographer of Lincoln, soldier in the Spanish-American War, came from Illinois to Wisconsin in December 1907 as a state organizer for the Social-Democratic party in eastern Wisconsin. After marrying . . . — — Map (db m32619) HM
Milwaukees State Normal School, which was founded in 1885 on the citys west side to train teachers, relocated in 1909 to this building, Mitchell Hall, then located on 111/2 acres. Designed by Van Ryn and de Gelleke, expanded in 1912, and named . . . — — Map (db m32666) HM
