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Byron Kilbourn (
September 8,
1801 –
December 16,
1870) was an
American surveyor,
railroad executive, and politician who was an important figure in the founding of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Kilbourn was born in
Granby, Connecticut, and moved with his family to
Worthington, Ohio in
1803, which his father helped found that year. Kilbourn's father was
James Kilbourne, a colonel during the
War of 1812 and a
U.S. Representative from Ohio from
1813 to
1817.
Byron Kilbourn worked in Ohio as a surveyor and as a state engineer. He first visited
Wisconsin in
1834, landing at
Green Bay, and worked as a government surveyor in the area. He later deemed the area near the
Milwaukee River to be a promising location for commerce, and he purchased land there. In
1837 Byron Kilbourn founded Kilbourntown, which rivaled with
Solomon Juneau's Juneautown and
George Walker's Walker's Point. In
1846, the three combined and formed the city of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kilbourn served as a Milwaukee alderman and was elected to two non-consecutive terms as mayor in
1848 and
1854.
While working as a highway commissioner for the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, he also founded what was to become the City of
West Bend in
1845 and later Kilbourn City, now known as the
Wisconsin Dells. Byron Kilbourn also became involved in the railroad industry, and served as president of the
Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad Company for about three years until
1852. He was fired by his directors. Then, he started a new railroad from Milwaukee to
La Crosse, on the border of
Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
Near the end of his life, he moved to
Florida, where he died in
1870, aged 69, and was buried in Jacksonville.
In
1998 his remains were transported back to Milwaukee for interment at
Forest Home Cemetery.
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