Source Information
Ancestry.com. Wisconsin Men of Progress [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.Original data: Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Aiken, Andrew J. Men of Progress, Wisconsin. Milwaukee, WI: Evening Wisconsin Co., 1897.
About Wisconsin Men of Progress
Home to over 2 million people in 1900, Wisconsin was an important part of the rapidly industrialized Midwest. This database is a collection of brief portraits and biographies of important men of the state. A large compendium, it provides information on civic, political and business leaders of the state at the end of the nineteenth century. It also includes some members of the clergy, and a small number of musical and artistic figures. Additionally, a brief historical introduction precedes the biographies. For researchers of Wisconsin ancestors, this can be an illuminating source of information.