Busseyville, Wisconsin

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Busseyville, Wisconsin
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Coordinates: 42°53′55″N088°59′16″W / 42.89861°N 88.98778°W / 42.89861; -88.98778
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Wisconsin.svg  Wisconsin
County Jefferson
Town Sumner
Elevation
241 m (791 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 920
GNIS feature ID1561899 [1]

Busseyville is an unincorporated community in the town of Sumner, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States. [2] It is located on Wisconsin Highway 106 near Luna Road, about ten miles west of Fort Atkinson. The Sumner town hall is located there as well as Busseyville Community Church. [3]

Notable people

The Swedish-American ornithologist Thure Kumlien lived on a farm near Busseyville, [4] as did other Swedes who had come in the same group with Kumlien, such as Charles Hammarquist, farmer, merchant, state legislator and postmaster of the Busseyville post office. Kumlien's son, Ludwig Kumlien, born at the family farm in Busseyville, rose to fame as an ornithologist and professor at Milton College.

Notes

  1. "Busseyville". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. "Busseyville Populated Place Profile / Jefferson County, Wisconsin Data". Wisconsin.hometownlocator.com. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  3. K. Gene Carroll. "Western District of the Primitive Methodist Church". Primitivemethodistchurch.org. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  4. H. J. Taylor (1936). "Thure Ludwig Theodor Kumlien". Wilson Bulletin. 48 (2): 86–93.


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