Wisconsin's non-native population has swollen from thirty-one…
1850 CE
Over a third of residents (one hundred and ten thousand five hundred) are foreign born, including thirty-eight thousand Germans, twenty-eight thousand British immigrants from England, Scotland, and Wales, and twenty-one thousand Irish.
Another third (one hundred and three thousand) are Yankees from New England and western New York state.
Only about sixty-three thousand residents in 1850 had been born in Wisconsin.
Nelson Dewey, the first governor of Wisconsin, a Democrat, had overseen the transition from the territorial to the new state government.
He encourages the development of the state's infrastructure, particularly the construction of new roads, railroads, canals, and harbors, as well as the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.
During his administration, the State Board of Public Works is organized.
Dewey, an abolitionist, is the first of many Wisconsin governors to advocate against the spread of slavery into new states and territories.
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