Editing Slinger, Wisconsin (section)

==Toponymy==
The village was originally known as Schleisingerville, after [[Baruch Schleisinger Weil]], a merchant and politician who developed the community as a railroad stop in the 1840s and 1850s. Locals sometimes abbreviated the four-syllable name to "Slinger," and on May 3, 1921, the village residents overwhelmingly voted to make Slinger the official name.<ref>Mrs. Robt. Donath, Jerry Gundrum, and Eli. Gebhard. ''[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.SLH100Years Schleisingerville to Slinger 1869-1969: Historical Album and Centennial Program Book]''. Slinger, Wis.: Centennial Committee, 1969.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://project.wsjl.org/history.php |title=Wisconsin Small Jewish Communities History Project |access-date=October 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209080309/http://project.wsjl.org/history.php |archive-date=February 9, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=125|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=121}}</ref>