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  Wisconsin.gov - Capitol Facts - Wisconsin State Capitol Virtual Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justices and the Fourth District Court of Appeals use the Supreme Court Room for oral arguments.
The fourth painting exemplifies Wisconsin Territorial Law by showing the trial of Chief Oshkosh of the Menominee tribe in 1830.
Although the jury found Chief Oshkosh guilty, Judge Doty ruled that the territorial law couldn't be applied because Chief Oshkosh had followed his people's legal system.
www.wisconsin.gov /state/capfacts/supreme_court_s.html   (588 words)

  
  Governors of Wisconsin page 1
Doty was appointed as the federal judge for the district by President James Monroe, and, because he was required to live within his the district, Doty moved from Detroit to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1823.
Doty had supported this idea as early as 1824, and argued that the growing number of residents in Wisconsin were not adequately provided for by the territorial government in Detroit, which was hundreds of miles away from any settlement in Wisconsin.
In 1838, Doty was elected as Wisconsin Territory's congressional delegate, defeating George W. Jones in a rematch of the 1835 election.
genealogytrails.com /wis/GovernorsWIpg1.html   (4996 words)

  
 wisconsin
Wisconsin's people have been molded by their diverse immigrant heritage, honest government born of midwestern progressivism, and glacial gifts of rich soils, scenic rivers, and about 9,000 freshwater lakes.
It encompassed present-day Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the eastern Dakotas.
Wisconsin's population grew from 305,391 in 1850 to 1,315,497 in 1880, of which 72 percent were foreign born or of foreign parentage.
wisconsin.50ustates.net   (2588 words)

  
 Capitals and Capitols in Early Wisconsin pg1
A few months later, Doty was present at the meeting of the truncated Territorial Council at Green Bay, where he was able to interest a group of a dozen or so men in purchasing more land in the region and forming a land company for large scale development.
Doty also took advantage of existing regional antipathies by supporting a plan to split the $20,000 appropriation between a temporary capital and a permanent one.
Doty is exerting himself to get the permanent seat of Government on his land at the Four Lakes, and the temporary seat located at Burlington for two or three years, making a bargain to unite the Des Moines and Iowa county members that give nineteen votes.
genealogytrails.com /wis/CapitalsCapitolsEarlyWisconsin1.html   (5482 words)

  
 The Creation of Wisconsin Territory - Wisconsin Historical Society
Doty lobbied aggressively for votes, however, even sending a wagon to Dubuque for buffalo robes, which he handed out to the freezing legislators, and apparently promising choice Madison lots to undecided voters at discount prices.
The population exploded from 11,683 in 1836 to 155,277 in 1846.
In 1848 Wisconsin became a state, and when the census was taken in 1850, its population had nearly tripled, to 304,456.
www.wisconsinhistory.org /turningpoints/tp-014/?action=more_essay   (863 words)

  
 Jim Nelsen's Virtual teaching Portfolio
Therefore, in 1832-33 Wisconsin was surveyed into townships and sections as authorized by the Northwest Ordinance of 1785, and in 1834 the Government Land Office began selling non-mineral and non-timer lands for $1.25 an acre.
One of the shrewdest of early Wisconsin politicians, Doty was the antitheses of Dodge.
Doty was not entirely happy with the choice, but he had some land in Madison as well as Fond du Lac so he stood to make at least some kind of profit (Schafer 72).
www.uwm.edu /People/jnelsen/port/geog214.html   (1832 words)

  
 Daily Pioneer
Doty served as the secretary in 2003-2004 for Associated General Contractors (AGC) when they built a handicap ramp for St. Mary's Church in Platteville.
Doty will be graduating as a civil engineering major with an emphasis in construction.
Doty is the daughter of Paul and Julie Doty of Rapids City, Ill.
www.uwplatt.edu /news/2004/12/doty-graduates-from-uwp.html   (527 words)

  
 Madison, Wisconsin  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Madison (city, Wisconsin), city in south central Wisconsin, capital of the state, and seat of Dane County.
Other points of interest in the city are the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, with displays of aircraft, model ships, and dioramas depicting military battles; a children's museum; a state historical museum; a zoological park; and many examples of the Prairie School architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, including the First Unitarian Society Meeting House.
Doty persuaded the legislature to move the capital of the newly formed Wisconsin Territory to Madison from its temporary location at Belmont, even though the site was still an empty tract of land.
www.galenfrysinger.com /madison_wisconsin.htm   (614 words)

  
 James Duane Doty - Wisconsin Historical Society
James Duane Doty first came to Wisconsin on an exploratory expedition with Governor Lewis Cass in 1820.
He soon settled in Green Bay and served as a delegate to Congress from Wisconsin Territory before becoming its second governor in 1841.
Doty was also instrumental in the selection of Madison as the capital of Wisconsin.
www.wisconsinhistory.org /turningpoints/search.asp?id=644   (97 words)

  
 Our state capitol
While the debate was still going on about where the territorial capital would be, James Doty, a lobbyist and promoter, was trying to find investors to buy up property in the isthmus area of the four lakes region between lakes Mendota and Monona.
Doty formed a union with a gentleman from Michigan, Steven Mason, who was interested in buying land in the new territory of Wisconsin.
Doty had not appeared interested in entering the "Capital Sweepstakes" until the fall of 1836.
www.legis.state.wi.us /senate/scc/kids/toppage2.htm   (1353 words)

  
 RacingWisconsin.com
Attempting a fourth straight Nationals victory Kevin Doty is eliminated in an opening lap multi-car accident.
The field received the checkered flag on lap 49, one short of the scheduled distance, and ran the final lap under caution as a tribute to Kevin Doty.
Doty whose car number was 50, had won the event a record five times, died of injuries from a Aug. 14th crash at the track.
www.racingwisconsin.com /bm060831.htm   (1158 words)

  
 James Duane Doty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Duane Doty (November 5, 1799 – June 13, 1865) was a land speculater and politician in the United States who played a large role in the development of Wisconsin and Utah Territory.
Following his career as a judge, Doty served as a member of the Michigan Territorial Council from 1834 to 1835, representing the western part of the territory.
Both Doty and Jones were running as Democrats, but Doty had little true loyalty to any political party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Duane_Doty   (1155 words)

  
 WSJ Features
But Marge Doty, a retired Veterans Administration Hospital employee who lives in a North Side apartment, says she has been helped by so many people she doesn't want to single out any individual.
Doty wrote individual letters nominating Rachel Caruso, Agnes Meddings, Judy Stolper, Jana Fey, the Rev. Roger Niles, Rosanne Hill and Rosie Fischer, each for different reasons.
River Ridge was recently honored as one of the top eight schools in Wisconsin, not a bad honor for a school in a town of just 700 people.
www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/features/69115.php   (1617 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Sprint-car veteran Doty dies after crash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Kevin Doty, a veteran driver from Iowa who was injured during the weekend in a midget sprint-car race at Angell Park Speedway in Wisconsin, has died.
Doty, of Burlington, Iowa, was hospitalized after his car flipped several times Sunday coming out of the 1/3-mile dirt track's fourth turn in the 12th lap of the 25-lap feature race.
Doty won numerous major races during his career and finished second to Tony Stewart in the 2002 Chili Bowl Midget Nationals in Tulsa.
www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/2005-08-17-obit-doty_x.htm   (287 words)

  
 WER: From Wilderness to State [3]
At first Wisconsin belonged to the "Northwest Territory," the name that was given to all the land shown on the map below.
Judge James Doty of Green Bay wanted a government for the country between Mackinac and the Mississippi River.
The eastern part of the territory had been growing under the leadership of such men as Judge Doty and his cousin, Morgan L. Martin.
www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER0431-3.html   (324 words)

  
 Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Local History Web
By the close of the 1830's, however, the central Wisconsin wilderness, the new Northwest, became a focal point for easterners hoping to create new lives for themselves.
Doty had an eye to the transportation possibilities of Lake Winnebago and the construction of a canal to the the Rock River at the Horicon marsh and another to Sheboygan on Lake Michigan.
Through Doty's lobbying efforts, the prospective city was made a candidate for the new Wisconsin territorial capital, although there were fewer than 140 white settlers in the entire county as late as the federal census of 1840.
www.wlhn.org /fond_du_lac/fdl_co.htm   (473 words)

  
 RacingWisconsin.com
Doty also complied an impressive sprint car driving career scoring seven career USAC National Car Series feature wins, including four at Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, Ohio).
Many of Doty's victories came driving for father Donald "Bud" Doty a long-time car owner and driver who has fielded cars for over 50 years.
Doty is survived by his father Donald, and son Kevin, Jr.
www.racingwisconsin.com /bm050816.htm   (313 words)

  
 Fox Cities
James Doty, an influential man to the town of Menasha, was the governor of Wisconsin.
Governor Doty gave the town Neenah its name because it has two channels that run through the town and it is surrounded by Lake Winnebago.
In the late 1840's, Governor James Doty, Charles Reed, Harvey Jones, and Harrison Reed were determined to improve the Fox River by building dams.
www.allfreeessays.com /student/Fox_Cities.html   (1954 words)

  
 James Madison in Madison, Wisconsin
Doty was a federal district judge and land speculator in the early days of the territory and state.
Doty named the paper city he created that autumn, on the isthmus between Third and Fourth Lakes, for the popular deceased president.
James Duane Doty used the popularity of this president, and the notoriety engendered by his death, as a tool for selling his idea to make his "paper" city into the new state capital a reality.
www.spj.org /madison/madinmad.htm   (2522 words)

  
 Doty, Wisconsin WI, town profile (Oconto County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Wisconsin > All counties > Oconto County > Doty
Doty is a town in Oconto County, in the Green Bay metro area.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Doty was $19,809, compared with $21,587 nationally.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=277775   (446 words)

  
 Dane County WI Real Estate, Madison Home for sale, Wisconsin Homes, Waunakee, Middleton, Properties, REMAX PREFERRED - ...
Madison, Wisconsin is a dynamic, cosmopolitan city and serves as the state capitol.
It is the second largest city in Wisconsin with an estimated population of 215,697 residents.
In 1829 James Doty, a territorial judge who later became governor of Wisconsin Territory, traveled through the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona.
mschuster.wisconsinlistings.com /madisonwisconsinrealestate.htm   (1060 words)

  
 Stephen Doty — Portal
Dr Doty received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University, and a B.S. in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin.
Dr Doty joined the Loyola faculty in 1987 after post-doctoral research/teaching positions at the University of Washington (Seattle) and the University of Notre Dame.
Dr Doty has previously worked in software development, has served as a consultant, and taught computer science at a number of institutions of higher learning in Indiana and Seattle before joining the Loyola faculty.
www.cs.luc.edu /people/ft_faculty/sdoty   (304 words)

  
 (Portraits) Governors of Wisconsin: N.P. Talmadge, James Duane Doty, et al. / Snyder, Van Vechten & Co. / 1878
Published In: Historical atlas of Wisconsin embracing complete state and county maps, city and village plats, together with separate state and county histories; also special articles on the geology, education, agriculture, and other important interests of the state.
Ristow describes the sad fate of this atlas - Walling and Tackabury published their Atlas of the State of Wisconsin in 1876 (P2633) which greatly reduced the market and thus fewer than 5000 copies of this 1878 atlas were sold, resulting in heavy financial loss and the exhaustion and ultimate demise of Mr.
Atlas is bound in half leather fl cloth covered boards with "Illustrated historical atlas of Wisconsin" stamped in gold on the front cover and blind stamped on the back; the spine reads "Historical atlas of Wisconsin.
www.davidrumsey.com /maps5073.html   (489 words)

  
 Madison, Wisconsin (WI) Bankruptcy Attorneys, Lawyers and Law Firms - Martindale.com
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www.martindale.com /Wisconsin/Madison/Bankruptcy/314-OOS/firm.html   (721 words)

  
 ArtsEntertain
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are a Class A farm team of the Seattle Mariners.
The Scheig Learning Center is a microcosm of native Wisconsin trees, plants and blooming florals.
Visit a by-gone era of river navigation when the Fox River was the main highway for commerce and travel.
www.scottroh.com /artsentertain.htm   (529 words)

  
 Wisconsin State Planning Grant, Research Activities and Grant Project, Conference - September 20, 2001
Wisconsin State Planning Grant, Research Activities and Grant Project, Conference - September 20, 2001
PowerPoint presentation: The Insured and Uninsured in Wisconsin
PowerPoint presentation: Health Insurance Pooled Purchasing: Prospects for Wisconsin — for "Who Are the Uninsured in Wisconsin?"
dhfs.wisconsin.gov /medicaid8/state-grant/presenters.htm   (155 words)

  
 UW - Green Bay - Wisconsin's French ConnectionsThe Founders of Green Bay:
At Doty's instigation, the muddled jurors indicted thirty-six of the town's principal male inhabitants for fornication and two for adultery.
A year before Doty's arrival within the newly created Brown County, the Green Bay trader had been settling his tangled accounts with the American Fur Company on Mackinac Island.
She has published a number of articles in the area of Métis history and is editor, along with Jennifer S.H. Brown, of the forthcoming The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America (University of Manitoba and University of Nebraska Presses, 1984).
www.uwgb.edu /wisfrench/library/articles/marriage.htm   (5341 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions - General Court - Dane County Clerk of Courts
A: The Courthouse is located at 215 S Hamilton St and is between the streets of Wilson and Doty running parallel.
A: The Wisconsin Judicial Commission investigates allegations of judicial misconduct.
A: Online, a substantial amount of Wisconsin legal information can be found by accessing the Wisconsin State Law Library's website and searching its contents.
www.co.dane.wi.us /clrkcort/faq_general.htm   (1316 words)

  
 Doty Family Genealogy Forum (Page 8)
Doty in area of St. Louis, MO in 1900 - Clare Pebworth 1/26/99
Doty's from Sullivan County IN - Barb Mayberry 1/15/99
Re: Doty, Samuel/Jeremiah/James/Steven in IL - Sherry Ward 12/14/01
genforum.genealogy.com /doty/page8.html   (2852 words)

  
 Appleton: Recreation - Sightseeing, Arts and Culture, Festivals and Holidays, Sports for the Spectator
Visitors learn about the life of what may be Appleton's most famous citizen, Harry Houdini, by taking the Houdini Walking Tour of the city, and observing the collection of his many magic feats.
From mid-May through mid-September tours are available to the grand log home of James Doty, Wisconsin's second territorial governor.
The Tayco Street Bridge Tower Museum, in nearby Menasha, has exhibits concerning the bygone era of river navigation during the time when the Fox River was the main highway for commerce and travel in the area.
www.city-data.com /us-cities/The-Midwest/Appleton-Recreation.html   (1353 words)

  
 Wisconsin Real Estate Doty Real Estate Wisconsin
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