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Wisconsin's First Election

Today's Odd Wisconsin describes Wisconsin's first election in 1836.

I thought that this was interesting:

That first census taken in August 1836 was performed in order to identify voters. It found only 11,683 non-Indian residents within the bounds of today's Wisconsin: Brown County - 2,706 Crawford County - 850 Iowa County - 5,234 Milwaukee County - 2,893. So when it was born, Wisconsin contained only about as many people as Cedarburg, Fort Atkinson, Hudson, or Plover do today.

Posted by Bonnie Shucha on October 23, 2006 9:57 AM| Categories: Miscellaneous & Odd-ball |

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