Urbanization & Industrialization 1873-1893 by Robert C. Nesbit

Author:Robert C. Nesbit [Robert C. Nesbit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780870206306
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: 2013-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. by Henry Reeve as revised by Francis Bowen (2 vols., Vintage Books edition, New York, 1954), 2:118; Wisconsin Constitution, Article III. See Chapter 9 for a discussion of the legal and other disabilities which were the lot of Wisconsin’s Negro and Indian minorities, and of her women.

2 Boleslaus E. Goral, “The Poles in Milwaukee,” in Jerome A. Watrous, ed., Memoirs of Milwaukee County: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present, Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families in Milwaukee County (2 vols., Madison, 1909), 1:616; Ninth Census of the United States, 1870: Population, Volume I, p. 299; Eleventh Census of the United States, 1890: Abstract, 44-46, and Population, Volume I, Part 1, p. clv.

3 Wisconsin Blue Book, 1887, pp. 109-112; ibid; 1899, p. 125. Richard N. Current, The History of Wisconsin. Volume II: The Civil War Era, 1848-1873 (Madison, 1976), 140-141, 219-221, 270-271, and the book’s index entries “Lynchings” and “Mobs and Riots”, which clarify that this sort of thing was not strictly a Milwaukee activity and frequently had overtones of ethnic and religious strife.

4 Current, Civil War Era, 226-230, 243-250. The Milwaukee Sentinel of March 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, and 23, 1892, details a gory lynching near Darlington of a neighboring hired hand who had murdered a respected farmer. Of the mob, estimated at 100, seven men were tried and acquitted on the grounds of what the Milwaukee Sentinel called “epidemic insanity.” The Sentinel, May 3, 1892, also noted the tarring and feathering of an Oshkosh barber “by about a dozen of the most prominent business men of Oshkosh.”

5 Alfons J. Beitzinger, Edward G. Ryan: Lion of the Law (Madison, 1960), 52-53, paraphrases Ryan’s speech.

6 Ibid., 104-105; Robert M. La Follette, La Follette’s Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences (Madison, 1911; reprinted, 1960), 11-12.

7 Gerd Korman, Industrialization, Immigrants and Americanizers: The View from Milwaukee, 1866-1921 (Madison, 1967), 15-16, 20-22, 35-38, 42-46, 55-57.

8 Daily Commercial Times, March 9, 1876; Milwaukee Sentinel, August 7, 1873.

9 Milton M. Gordon, Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins (New York, 1964), chap. 3. See also: D. Aidan McQuillan, “Territory and Ethnic Identity: Some New Measures of an Old Theme in the Cultural Geography of the United States,” in James R. Gibson, ed., European Settlement and Development in North America: Essays on Geographical Change in Honour and Memory of Andrew Hill Clark (Toronto, 1978), 136-169; Kathleen N. Conzen, “Immigrants, Immigrant Neighborhoods, and Ethnic Identity: Historical Issues,” in the Journal of American History, 66 (December, 1979), 603-615; and Richard M. Bernard, The Melting Pot and the Altar: Marital Assimilation in Early Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (Minneapolis, 1980). Richard D. Cross in John A. Garraty’s book Interpreting American History: Conversations with Historians (2 vols., New York, 1970), 2:21-42, concludes (p. 36): “If this country lasts a thousand years and we don’t have any more massive immigration, probably it will become structurally assimilated too.”

10 Bernard, Melting Pot and the Altar, 5-9.

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