Wisconsin Dairyman's Association is founded in Watertown. The Ringling Brothers give their first circus performance in Baraboo. The Bennett Law, requiring classroom instruction in English, passes.
Many immigrant families are upset.
Following intense disagreement by German Protestants and Catholics, the Bennett Law is overturned. The lumber boom peaks in northern Wisconsin, with 3.4 billion board feet harvested in one year. Sawmill in Emerson, Wisconsin. A famous logjam on the Chippewa River is fifteen miles long, with logs piled thirty feet high. Interstate Park in Polk County becomes the first state park in Wisconsin.