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, Capital City Commercial College, Madison College, Madison Junior College, and Madison Junior Business College; it closed on September 22, 1998.
Steiger's Educational Directory for 1878 classified it as, "Institute of Penmanship and Telegraph; Classical, Scientific and Musical Academy". In the mid-1880s, it issued at least two copies of a magazine named The School Visitor.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni include: Liberian President and Nobel Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 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, and state Assemblymen D. D. Conway, Joanne M. Duren, Hugh Pierce Jamieson, Daniel O. Mahoney, Edward C. Meland, Herbert C. Schenk, and Thomas A. Stewart; as well as C. L. Brusletten, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Charles S. Eastman, a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, and Leo Kieffer, Maine State Senator.
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