Michael Olbrich (September 29, 1881 – October 10, 1929) was a Madison, Wisconsin, lawyer, politician, and conservationist, who founded Olbrich Botanical Gardens and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. The Olbrich Gateway at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum is also named for him. Olbrich was involved in a court case over a Montana sheep ranch in which he had invested much of his money, which led to his suicide in 1929.
Daniel Webster Hoan (March 12, 1881 – June 11, 1961) was an American politician who served as the
32nd Mayor of Milwaukee,Wisconsin from 1916 to 1940. A lawyer who had served as Milwaukee City Attorney from 1910 to 1916, Hoan was a prominent figure in Socialist politics and Milwaukee's second Socialist mayor. His 24-year administration remains the longest continuous Socialist administration in United States history. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him among the ten best mayors in American history.