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When a neighborhood community center opened in 1924 in a former firehouse on Saint Clair Street, it was considered a direct continuation of her home service and named for her. Brinton came from
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She popularized tennis in the 1880s, having a court laid out on her house’s side lot. A basket of rackets on the back porch was available for whoever wished to play. Beulah once led local children to claim an empty lot for a neighborhood park. That plot is now part of South Shore Park, through which
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in London and New York. Recalled as “perhaps the outstanding woman of Bay View’s history” and the “real literary leader of the early community,” Brinton pursued community-building efforts that transcended ordinary neighborliness, prompted by an expansive religious faith and sense of duty to “her
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Brinton started outgrew her parlor, moved to a room at the rolling mill, then a neighborhood school, and became the nucleus of Milwaukee’s first branch library. She helped organize the Bay View Literary Society, which frequently met in Puddlers Hall, a union hall on Saint Clair Street. The
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She was born in New York in 1836 as Bulah Tobey, at a time when spelling was more fluid than it would become. In 1854 Beulah married
Connecticut native Warren Brinton, a millwright whose work took the couple from New England to Missouri’s iron district and steel mills on the
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Missouri was recalled in 'Man is Love', Beulah’s somber Civil War novel, published by Lippincott in 1874. She later published a book of mystical poems, 'Behold the Woman', while editing a village newspaper, The Bay View Herald.
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executive whose manufacturing career had begun in the Bay View mill. Brinton returned to her old home in 1926 to live with the family of her granddaughter Mabel
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South Shore Drive – originally called Beulah Avenue – winds. Beulah also preached at her
Methodist church and served on its mission board and was an officer of a local Republican women’s committee.
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workers in the 1870s. Her teaching of reading, music, English, cooking, and sewing to the iron men’s children and wives and occasional service as midwife predated the celebrated work of
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October 1871 and sought in 1886 to reconcile all parties in the wake of May’s National Guard shootings of a group agitating for the 8-hour workday.
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