Good morning.
Today’s forecast calls for a day of rain, snow, and sleet, with a high temperature of thirty-seven.
In Whitewater today, there will be a meeting of the Urban Foresty Commission at 4.15pm. The meeting agenda is available online. Later, at 6:30 p.m., there will be a meeting of the Common Council. That agenda is also available online.
In Wisconsin History, a sad and unusual story about a former governor, as the Wisconsin Historical Society tells it:
1862 – Governor Harvey Drowns in the Tennessee River
On this date Governor Louis Harvey died while leading an expedition to relieve Wisconsin troops after the battle of Shiloh. The expedition was bringing doctors, nurses, and much-needed medical supplies to soldiers when Harvey, crossing from one steamboat to another, slipped, fell into the swift currents of the Tennessee River, and never re-surfaced. His body was recovered ten days later, nearly sixty miles downstream. When news reached Madison, Lieutenant Governor Edward Salomon was sworn in as Wisconsin’s first German-American governor. [Source: Wisconsin in the Civil War, by Frank L. Klement]