Source Information
Ancestry.com. Wisconsin Handbook, 1856 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Original data: Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Chapman, S. Handbook of Wisconsin. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, 1856.
About Wisconsin Handbook, 1856
Given territorial status in 1836 and granted statehood in 1848, Wisconsin grew in population from 300,000 to 775,000 in just the first ten years as a state. This database is a reprint of a handbook for the state originally published in 1856. It provides descriptions of the public lands, educational opportunities, commercial statistics, and counties in that year. It also includes information regarding the 1855 state census and a comparison with it and the 1850 federal census. For researchers of Wisconsin ancestors, this database can illuminate historical and geographic aspects of the area not commonly known.
