Madison Business College Explained

Madison Business College was the name of a business college in Madison, Wisconsin, founded in 1858.

History

The college was also known as Northwestern Business College and School of Shorthand,^[1] Capital City Commercial College, Madison College, Madison Junior College, and Madison Junior Business College; it closed on September 22, 1998.^[2] ^[3]

Steiger's Educational Directory for 1878 classified it as, "Institute of Penmanship and Telegraph; Classical, Scientific and Musical Academy".^[4] In the mid-1880s, it issued at least two copies of a magazine named The School Visitor.^[5]

Notable alumni

Notable alumni include:

Liberian President and Nobel Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf^[6]
Wisconsin governor Albert G. Schmedeman
Wisconsin Secretary of State and legislator John S. Donald
State Treasurer, and Assemblyman Andrew H. Dahl
State Senator Albert M. Stondall
State Assemblyman D. D. Conway
State Assemblyman Joanne M. Duren
State Assemblyman Hugh Pierce Jamieson
State Assemblyman Daniel O. Mahoney
State Assemblyman Edward C. Meland
State Assemblyman Herbert C. Schenk
State Assemblyman Thomas A. Stewart
C. L. Brusletten, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
George B. Curtiss, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York
Charles S. Eastman, a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives
Leo Kieffer, Maine State Senator

References

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Notes and References

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.MCD19001 Madison, Wisconsin, city directory 1900-1. Containing a complete business, street and general directory, (in the latter, wives' names appear in same line with husbands') Angell's patent numerical directory, and city, county, state and federal officers, churches, schools, secret and benevolent societies, and public buildings; and a directory of the faculty, societies and students of the University of Wisconsin Angell and Hastreiter, 1900-1901; p. 277
https://dsps.wi.gov/Documents/EAClosedSchoolsList.pdf ''LISTING OF CLOSED WISCONSIN POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS Wisconsin Educational Aids Board
Web site: (319) Madison Business College .
[Ernst Steiger|Steiger, Ernst]
"Editorial" Wisconsin Journal of Education Vol. 14, No. X (October 1884); p. 447
http://host.madison.com/news/local/nobel-peace-prize-winner-studied-at-madison-business-college/article_6602fa73-7db3-5e9b-b348-368d44291e25.html#ixzz2g9E5s8na Associated Press. "Nobel Peace Prize winner studied at Madison Business College" Wisconsin State Journal October 8, 2011