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Byron Kilbourn
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Parents
- James Kilbourne, Col. 1770-1850
- Lucy Fitch 1769-1807
Union(s) et enfant(s)
- Marié le 25 décembre 1827, St. John's Episcopal Church, Worthington, Franklin Co., OH, avec Mary Henrietta Cowles 1801-1837 (Parents : Whitfield Cowles, Rev. 1764-1840 & Glorianna Havens 1774-1802) dont
Glorianna Havens Kilbourn 1829-1845 relation avec ? ?- Lucy Fitch Kilbourn 1831-1844 relation avec ? ?
- Marié le 15 juin 1838, Washington, D.C., avec Henrietta Maria Karrick 1808-1887 (Parents : Joseph Karrick ca 1773-1829 & Rebecca Ord 1769-1850) dont
Byron Hector Kilbourn 1840-1897 marié en 1864 avec Lizzie Ann Shears 1844-1890- John Fitch Kilbourn ca 1845-1850 marié avec ? ?
Frères et sœurs
- Laura Kilbourne 1797-1867
Notes
Notes individuelles
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linked to: Timothy Michael Dowling, 5th cousin 6x removed
event: Elected Mayor of Milwaukee, WI [1848]
census: [1850] Page 298B, Ward 2, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., WI
event: Elected Mayor of Milwaukee, WI [1854]
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Byron Kilbourn was an American surveyor, railroad executive, and politician who was an important figure in the founding of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Kilbourn was born in Granby, Connecticut, and moved with his family to Worthington, Ohio in 1803, which his father helped found that year. Kilbourn's father was James Kilbourne, a colonel during the War of 1812 and a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1813 to 1817.
Byron Kilbourn worked in Ohio as a surveyor and as a state engineer. He first visited Wisconsin in 1834, landing at Green Bay, and worked as a government surveyor in the area. He later deemed the area near the Milwaukee River to be a promising location for commerce, and he purchased land there. In 1837 Byron Kilbourn founded Kilbourntown (present day Westown), which rivaled with Solomon Juneau's Juneautown (present day East Town) and George Walker's Walker's Point. In 1846, the three combined and formed the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kilbourn served as a Milwaukee alderman and was elected to two non-consecutive terms as mayor in 1848 and 1854.
When working as a highway commissioner for the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, he also founded what was to become the City of West Bend in 1845 and later Kilbourn City, now known as the Wisconsin Dells. Byron Kilbourn also became involved in the railroad industry, and served as president of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad for about three years until 1852. He was fired by his directors. Then, he started a new railroad from Milwaukee to La Crosse, on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Near the end of his life, he moved to Florida, where he died in 1870, aged 69, and was buried in Jacksonville.
In 1998 his remains were transported back to Milwaukee for interment at Forest Home Cemetery.
Sources
- Naissance, décès: Dowling Family Tree - Tim Dowling - rootsweb, 2001-2013 - - electronic - I178595
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