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1860 Muskego Census

Civil War Soldiers from Muskego

WWI Muskego Veterans

WWI Muskego Casualties

WWII Muskego Veterans

Korean Conflict Muskego Casualties

Vietnam Muskego Casualties

Muskego Mayors

1873 Muskego Register of Electors

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The name Muskego is derived from the Potawatomi Indian name for the area who named it "Mus-kee-Guaac," meaning sunfish.

The Potawatomi were the original inhabitants of Muskego and they enjoyed an abundance of wild rice, water fowl, fish and muskrats. They lived in villages of birch covered houses and dome shaped wigwams.

In 1833, the Potawatomi ceded their lands in Wisconsin to the U.S. government. Despite being relocated by the federal government in 1850, the Potawatomi continued to return to hunt and fish in and around Muskego's lakes until the 1870s.

In 1916, human remains representing one individual were removed from the Camp Thomas Cemetery Site on the Ralph Holtz Farm in Muskego by Rudolph Boettger. Mr. Boettger sold the human remains and two associated funerary objects to the Milwaukee Public Museum in 1922. He donated an additional associated funerary object to the museum in 1947. No known individual was identified. The three associated funerary objects are a small copper alloy bucket, a small wooden bowl with projecting animal effigy tab, and an iron knife blade. The associated funerary objects date this burial to circa 1800. The date is consistent with historical evidence for Potawatomi occupation of the area.

The Camp Thomas Cemetery Site is a known Potawatomi cemetery and camp utilized until the 1870s. In 1892 a buried Potawatomi dugout canoe was found buried on the Caesar farm on Muskego Dam Road. It was given to the Milwaukee Public Museum and is now in the care of the Muskego Historical Society.

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Amable Vieau

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Muskego biographies from History of Waukesha County by Western Historical Company, Chicago 1880

Corn husking bee on John Ludwig farm. North of old Hwy 24.

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Bertram, Clyde Russell
U.S. Marine Corps
Age 23, Muskego
Served: Paris Island
Date of Death: Apr 20, 1918
Cause of death: Pneumonia

Holzer, Gerald Thomas
U. S. Army
Age 22, Muskego
Private 47th Engineer Regiment
Served: overseas
Date of Death: Oct 18, 1918
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Buried at: Plot A Row 07 Grave 19
St. Mihiel American Cemetery
France

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MARTIN, Dennis Robert
LCPL - E3 - Marine Corps - Regular
19 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on May 22, 1946
From MUSKEGO, WISCONSIN
His tour of duty began on Sep 10, 1963
Casualty was on Aug 24, 1965
SOUTH VIETNAM
NON-HOSTILE, FIXED WING - NONCREW
AIR LOSS, CRASH AT SEA
Body was recovered
Religion: ROMAN CATHOLIC

ROSS, Ronald Alan
CAPT - O3 - Army - Reserve
1st Field Force
23 year old Married, Caucasian, Male
Born on Jul 25, 1946
From MUSKEGO, WISCONSIN
Length of service 3 years.
His tour of duty began on Dec 29, 1968
Casualty was on Oct 31, 1969 in QUANG DUC, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
Religion: LUTHERAN & MISSOURI SYNOD

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Kathy Chiaverotti - Elected 2011 - present
John Johnson - Elected 2006 - Served until 4/2011
Charles Damaske - Elected 2005. Served until 11/2006.
Mark Slocomb - Elected 2002-2005
David DeAngelis - Elected 1993. Re-elected to additional three year terms in 1996 and 1999.
Wayne Salentine - Elected 1982-1993
Donald Wieselmann - Elected 1968-1970
Jerome Gottfried - First Mayor of City. Elected 1964-1968. Re-Elected 1970-1982

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