- Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984), was an American serial killer. Though only two murders on his part were proved, he gained great infamy due to necrophiliac behavior (which involved the skinning of his murder victims and exhumed corpses, the decoration of his home with parts of corpses, and the creation of articles of clothing and furniture from the skin of corpses). Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under mysterious circumstances, … - James Cameron
James Cameron (February 23, 1914 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - June 11, 2006 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a civil rights activist. He founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. James Cameron was founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum and America's only living survivor of a lynching until he died. In August, 1930 when Cameron was 16 years old, he was falsely accused of participating in the murder of a young white man in Marion, Indiana. - Joseph Walton Losey III
The dominant themes of Losey's eclectic work are emotional instability, emotional and physical violence and perverse sexual power plays. There is not one conventional love story in his films. He has a mania for settings that express states of mind, and his camera movements are always abnormally sensitive and skittish. He has been attacked as a case of style over substance, but this misses the point. - Damian Miller
Damian Donald Miller (born October 13, 1969 in La Crosse, Wisconsin) is a professional baseball catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. Miller attended Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin and as a senior, was named the NAIA District 14 Player of the Year and helped lead his team to the NAIA seminifinals. Miller is not a member of the Major League Baseball Players Association, as he was a replacement player during the 1994 Major League Baseball strike. - Andrew Rock
Andrew Rock (born January 23, 1982) is an American athlete who specializes in the 400 meter dash. He was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2004. He grew up in Stratford, Wisconsin, where he graduated from high school in 2000. He currently trains under former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse coach Mark Guthrie, who is currently an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin. - Patrick Joseph Lucey
Patrick Joseph Lucey (born March 21, 1918 in La Crosse, Wisconsin) is a member of the Democratic Party who served as governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1971 to 1977. In 1977, Lucey was appointed ambassador to Mexico by President Jimmy Carter, a post he held until 1979. Lucey was also an independent vice-presidential candidate in 1980 with John Anderson. Lucey graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1935. Lucey went to St. - Don Herbert
Donald Jeffry Herbert (born Donald Herbert Kemske; July 10 1917 - June 12 2007), better known as "Mr. Wizard", was the host of two popular television shows about science aimed at children. - Tom Gullikson
Tom Gullikson is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from the United States. During his career as a player, Tom won 16 top-level doubles titles – ten of them partnering his now-deceased identical twin brother, Tim Gullikson. The brothers were runners-up in the men's doubles competition at Wimbledon in 1983. Tom also won the mixed doubles title at the US Open in 1984, partnering Manuela Maleeva. Tom won one top-level singles title (at Newport in 1985). - Tim Gullikson
Tim Gullikson was a tennis player and coach from the United States. Tim was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 1977, he won three tour singles titles and was named the ATP's Newcomer of the Year. During his career as a tennis player, Tim won 15 top-level doubles titles – ten of them partnering his identical twin brother, Tom Gullikson. The brothers were runners-up in the men's doubles competition at Wimbledon in 1983. Tim also won a total of four top-level singles titles. - Gregg Underheim
Gregg Underheim, born August 22, 1950 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 54th District in and around Oshkosh. He served from 1987 until 2007 and was chair of the Assembly Health Committee for 12 of his 20 years in the State Assembly. He did not seek reelection in 2007. - Cadwallader C. Washburn
Cadwallader Colden Washburn (April 22, 1818-May 15, 1882) was an American businessman, politician, and soldier noted for founding what would later become General Mills and working in government for Wisconsin. He was born in Livermore, Maine one of seven brothers that included Israel Washburn, Jr., Elihu B. Washburne, and William D. Washburn. Shortly after his birth he was diagnosed with epilepsy. - Ron Kind
Ronald James Kind (born March 16 1963) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997, representing. Kind is a native of La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was first elected in the 3rd Congressional District of Wisconsin (map) in November 1996. He currently serves on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. His other (non-committee) titles are the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip, … - Reuben Trane
Reuben N. Trane (September 13, 1886 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - September 5, 1954 in La Crosse) founded Trane, the heating and air conditioning company, with his father James Trane. Reuben Trane graduated from La Crosse Central High School in 1906. In 1910, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in engineering. From 1916 until 1951, Reuben Trane was President of Trane; from 1951 until his death in 1954, … - Alexander Joseph McGavick
Alexander Joseph McGavick (August 22 1863 - August 25 1948) was the fourth Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse in Wisconsin. He was born in Fox Lake, Illinois, and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on June 11 1887, for the Archdiocese of Chicago. On December 2 1898, he was appointed auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Chicago and was ordained a Roman Catholic bishop on May 1 1899. - Ford Sterling
Ford Sterling was an American actor. Born George Ford Stich in La Crosse, Wisconsin, he began his career in silent films in 1911 with Biograph Studios. When director Mack Sennett left to set up Keystone Studios, Sterling followed him. There, he performed what is probably his most remembered role as 'Chief Teeheezel' in the Keystone Kops series of slapstick comedies in a successful career that spanned twenty-five years. - Charles Dierkop
Charles "Charlie" Dierkop (born September 11, 1936 in La Crosse, Wisconsin) is a film and television character actor. He attended Aquinas High School in La Crosse. His short, muscular stature and interesting nose give him the look of a classic Dick Tracy gangster. (In fact, he was cast in two George Roy Hill films, and played an outlaw both times -- as 'Flat Nose Curry' in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" he was a member of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, … - Chip Dunham
Robert John "Chip" Dunham (b. LaCrosse, Wisconsin) is a cartoonist best-known as the creator of the comic strip "Overboard", which debuted in 1990. The strip - which tells the comical tale of a group of pirates - is distributed through Universal Press Syndicate. In 1993, the National Cartoonist Society nominated "Overboard" for Best Comic Strip. In 1980, he received a journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin; he lives in Beverly Hills, Michigan. - Jarrod Washburn
Jarrod Michael Washburn (born August 13, 1974 in La Crosse, Wisconsin) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. Drafted by the California Angels in the 2nd round of the 1995 amateur draft out of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Washburn won the final game of the 1994 NCAA Division III World Series, giving up no hits to current Wesleyan University head baseball coach Mark Woodworth. Over his career, Washburn has been criticized for being inconsistent, … - James Schwebach
James Schwebach (August 15, 1847 - June 6, 1921) was the third Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse in Wisconsin. He was born in Platen, Luxembourg. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 16,1870. On December 11, 1891, he was appointed Roman Catholic Bishop and was ordained a Roman Catholic Bishop on February 25, 1892. Schwebach died in La Crosse, Wisconsin. - Michael Heiss
Michael Heiss (April 12, 1818 - March 26, 1890) was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse and the second Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born in Pfahldorf, Germany, he was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on October 18, 1840. Father Heiss was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse on March 3,1868, and was ordained a bishop on September 6,1868. - Frederick William Freking
Frederick William Freking (August 11,1911 - November 28,1998) was Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was born in Heron Lake, Minnesota, and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on July 31, 1938, for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona, Minnesota. Monsignor Freking was the spiritual director of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. On October 10, 1957, he was appointed bishop for the Diocese of Salina, Kansas. - James Trane
James Trane (1857 in Norway - January 24, 1936 in Los Angeles, California) was the co-founder of the company that bears his name, was an immigrant from Norway who settled in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1864, finding work as a steamfitter and plumber. In 1885, he opened his own store. Reuben Trane, James' son, earned a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, and joined his father's plumbing firm. - John Joseph Paul
John Joseph Paul (August 17, 1918 - March 5, 2006) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Bishop Paul was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He graduated from Aquinas High School in 1935. In 1939, he graduated from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. John Joseph Paul was ordained to the Roman Catholic Priesthood on January 24, 1943, by Auxiliary Bishop William Richard Griffin at St. - John Toland
John Willard Toland (June 29, 1912 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - January 4, 2004 in Danbury, Connecticut) was an American author and historian. He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for his book "The Rising Sun", which chronicled Imperial Japan from its Manchurian involvement following World War I to the end of World War II. Toland tried to write history as a straightforward narrative, without too much analysis or judgement. - John Patrick Treacy
John Patrick Treacy (July 23, 1891 - October 11, 1964) was an American Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on December 8 1918 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio. He was appointed Coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse on August 22 1945, and was ordained a Roman Catholic bishop on October 2 1945. - Nathan Myrick
Nathan Myrick (July 7, 1822 in Westport, New York - June 4, 1903 in St. Paul, Minnesota) founded La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1841. Nathan Myrick was in the fur trade in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, but travel north and established a fur trading post in what is now La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 1849, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota to establish more fur trading posts. - Lalita Pandit
Lalita Pandit (born 1950) is a poet and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse at La Crosse. Her books include "Criticism and Lacan: Essays and Dialogue on Language, Structure, and the Unconscious" (1990), "Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture" (1995) and "Comparative Poetics: Non-Western Traditions of Literary Theory" (1996). - George Wilbur Peck
George Wilbur Peck (September 28, 1840 - April 16, 1916) was an American writer and politician who served as the 17th governor of Wisconsin. Peck was born in Henderson, New York, in 1840 and moved to Wisconsin as a toddler in 1843. In Wisconsin, he was a newspaper publisher who founded newspapers in Ripon and La Crosse. His La Crosse newspaper, "The Sun", was founded in 1874. In 1878 Peck moved the newspaper to Milwaukee and renamed it "Peck's Sun". - Mike O'Callaghan
Donal Neil "Mike" O'Callaghan (September 10, 1929 - March 5, 2004) was the governor of the U.S. state of Nevada from 1971 until 1979. He was a member of the Democratic Party. - Gardner R. Withrow
Gardner Robert Withrow (October 5, 1892-September 23, 1964) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1931-1939 and again from 1949-1961, when he did not seek reelection. Withrow was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and worked for the railroad and was involved in the labor union. He was a member of the Progressive Party. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. He died in La Crosse and was buried there. - Mark Kellogg
Mark Kellogg was a newspaper reporter killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Kellogg rode with George Armstrong Custer during the battle and was evidently one of the first men killed by the Sioux and Cheyenne. His dispatches were the only press coverage of Custer and his men in the days leading up to the battle. As a newspaper stringer whose reports were picked up around the country, … - Ed Konetchy
Edward Joseph Konetchy (September 3 1885 - May 27 1947), nicknamed "Big Ed" and "The Candy Kid", was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball for a number of teams, primarily in the National League, from 1907 to 1921. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1907-1913), Pittsburgh Pirates (1914), Pittsburgh Rebels of the Federal League (1915), Boston Braves (1916-1918), Brooklyn Robins (1919-1921), and Philadelphia Phillies (1921). He batted and threw right-handed. - Curt Michel
F. Curtis Michel was a NASA Astronaut and is a professor of astrophysics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. - William Richard Griffin
William Richard Griffin (September 1, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois - March 18, 1944 in La Crosse, Wisconsin) was a Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on May 25, 1907, for the Archdiocese of Chicago. On March 9, 1935, he was appointed Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and was ordained a Roman Catholic bishop on May 1, 1935. Bishop Griffin was buried in Chicago, Illinois in Calvary Cemetery. - Angus Cameron
Angus Cameron (July 4, 1826-March 30, 1897) was a Republican and a member of the United States Senate from Wisconsin from 1875-1881, when he did not seek reelection, and again from 1881-1885, when he was elected to succeed Matthew H. Carpenter, who died in office; he did not seek reelection in 1885. He was born in Caledonia, New York, and went to public schools and to Genesse-Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, New York, which is now Syracuse University. - Hugo Jan Huss
Hugo Jan Huss was an orchestra conductor and music director. He was born in Timişoara, Romania and died in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He studied at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music where he was the favorite student of Constantin Silvestri. After graduation he became conductor and music director of the Symphony Orchestra in Arad, a city in western Romania, close to his native town. In 1968, he went to Paris, France and did not return to Romania. - Gottlieb Heileman
Johann Gottlieb Heileman (January 6, 1824 in Kirchheim unter Teck, Wurttemberg, Germany- February 19, 1878 in La Crosse, Wisconsin) was the founder of the G. Heileman Brewing Company in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Gottlieb Heileman founded the brewery in 1858. - Timothy Burns
Timothy Burns (May 31, 1820-September 21, 1853) was Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 until his death while in office in 1853, serving as a Democrat. Timothy Burns was born in Dublin, Ireland. As a young man, he settled in Iowa County, Wisconsin. He was a lead miner, businessman, and was elected sheriff of Iowa County. Later, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1850, he moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he help developed the city. - Tom Newberry
Tom Newberry (born April 19, 1939 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is a former American football guard who played ten seasons in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. He was a starter for the Steelers in Super Bowl XXX - Arthur Kreutz
Arthur Kreutz (July 25, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - March 12, 1991 in Oxford, Mississippi) was an American composer. He was famous for the "Paul Bunyan Suite" and the "Dixie Concerto".
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