Byron Kilbourn

Byron Kilbourn (September 8th 1801 – December 6th 1870) was a American Geometrician-expert, director of Railroad, and politician who was an important figure of the foundation of Milwaukee.

Kilbourn was born with Granby (Connecticut), and moved with its family with Worthington (Ohio) in 1803, that his/her father helped to found this same year. the father of Kilbourn was James Kilbourne, a colonel during the Guerre of 1812 and a Représentant of Ohio of 1813 with 1817.

Byron Kilbourn worked in Ohio as geometrician and engineer of state. It came to the Wisconsin for the first time in 1834, and settled with Green Bay. In 1837 Byron Kilbourn founda Kilbourntown, which competed with Juneautown of Solomon Juneau and Walker' S Point of George Walker. In 1846, they combined their city and founded Milwaukee. Kilbourn was useful like city council man of Milwaukee and had two not-consecutive mandate of mayor in 1848 and 1854.

Close to the end of its life, he moved in Florida, or he died in 1870, 69 years old, and he was buried in Jacksonville.

In 1998 its remainders were brought back to Milwaukee to be buried in the Forest Home Cemetery.

Refer

"Another pioneer gone". (Dec. 19,1870). Milwaukee Sentinel .
Wisconsin Historical Society

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