Good morning.
A partly cloudy day, with a high of sixty-two, awaits Whitewater.
There’s a meeting of the Tech Park Board today at 8 a.m.
On this day in 1875, one of Wisconsin’s greatest residents, with a fine record of accomplishment, passed away:
1875 – Increase Lapham Dies While Fishing
On this date Increase Lapham died of a heart attack while fishing in Oconomowoc. Lapham served Wisconsin as a geologist, meteorologist, historian, archivist, anthropologist, and scientist.He helped found the State Historical Society and served on its board for 22 years. He helped establish the National Weather Service and worked to preserve Native American burial mounds, as well as the forests and prairies of Wisconsin. He also helped establish hospitals for the blind, deaf, and mentally ill in Milwaukee and to start two women’s colleges, Carroll College and Milwaukee-Downer College. [Source: Badger Saints and Sinners; by Fred L. Holmes, p.330-344]
Via Wisconsin Historical Society .