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,Madison, Wisconsin, city directory 1900-1. Containing a complete business, street and general directory, (in the latter, wives' names appear in same line with husbands') Angell's patent numerical directory, and city, county, state and federal officers, churches, schools, secret and benevolent societies, and public buildings; and a directory of the faculty, societies and students of the University of Wisconsin Angell and Hastreiter, 1900-1901; p. 277 Capital City Commercial College, Madison College, Madison Junior College, and Madison Junior Business College; it closed on September 22, 1998.https://dsps.wi.gov/Documents/EAClosedSchoolsList.pdf LISTING OF CLOSED WISCONSIN POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS Wisconsin Educational Aids Board
Steiger's Educational Directory for 1878 classified it as, "Institute of Penmanship and Telegraph; Classical, Scientific and Musical Academy".Steiger, Ernst. Steiger's Educational Directory for 1878 New York: E. Steiger, 1878; p. 85] In the mid-1880s, it issued at least two copies of a magazine named The School Visitor."Editorial" Wisconsin Journal of Education Vol. 14, No. X (October 1884); p. 447
Notable alumni Notable alumni include: Liberian President and Nobel Prize winner Ellen Johnson SirleafAssociated Press. "Nobel Peace Prize winner studied at Madison Business College" Wisconsin State Journal October 8, 2011 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 State Assemblyman D. D. Conway State Assemblyman Joanne M. Duren State Assemblyman Hugh Pierce Jamieson State Assemblyman Daniel O. Mahoney State Assemblyman Edward C. Meland State Assemblyman Herbert C. Schenk State Assemblyman Thomas A. Stewart C. L. Brusletten, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives George B. Curtiss, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York Charles S. Eastman, a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives Leo Kieffer, Maine State Senator
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