Kelly & the Flock wrote: > Okay.... I give up. I just ordered "Wisconsin Men of Achievement" in > addition to the MOP and "Notable Men of Wisconsin" I already had... and > although absolutely fascinating, none of them have Mr. SCHLEIF (see below) > in them. Is anyone aware of any other biographical books or can point me in > the right direction? I've pretty much scraped everywhere I could at this > point (well, obviously not EVERYWHERE). Granted... I wouldn't normally spend > this much time on one query, but I'm enjoying the learning process and find > the information valuable myself. > > Thanks, > Kelly > > ...I'm writing you because there is a book about men of Milwaukee in > the early days, and I saw an index of it that included a relative of mine, > Edward J. SCHLEIF, a dentist ... I'm totally stopped in my research on his > line, and of course have tried to find out what the book said about him, > without success. I really think the name of the book was different from "Men > of Progress", although it was similar. My understanding of it is that it > included biographies of early Milwaukee men... > Hi Kelly, There were a bunch of indexes uploaded to the archives for a majority of the counties. This was about a year ago but not all of them made it to the TOC's. I took a look and found this in the book "MEMOIRS OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY, VOL. II", by Jerome Anthony Watrous, 1909 Schleif, Edward J., page 567 Hope this helps! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net