Memoirs of Milwaukee County, Volume 3 E-Book

Josiah Seymour Currey

• Herausgeber: Jazzybee Verlag
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Jerome A. Watrous, the author of the first volume, and Josiah Seymour Currey, the compiler of the biographical volumes two through five, present a thrilling narrative and in-depth-biographies of an eventful past of a county, the rapid growing of a fantastic city on the lakeshore, and the lives of hundreds of people that were so important for the history of Milwaukee town and country. The whole five books contain thousands of pages of valuable information and are essential for everyone interested in the history the most populous and densely populated county in Wisconsin. This is volume three out of five, containing a wealth of biographies of important people.

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Memoirs of Milwaukee County

Volume 3: Biographical

JOSIAH S. CURREY

Memoirs of Milwaukee County 3, J. S. Currey

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CONTENTS:

AARONS, ELIAS.1

ABE, AUGUST J.1

ABRAMS, HARRY.1

ALBENBERG, LESTER I.1

ALEXANDER, JOHN FINNEY.1

ANGER, ARTHUR H.1

BACHER, JULIUS.1

BACHINSKI, LEONARD J., M. D.1

BACON, FRANK R.1

BAIRD, ROBERT W.1

BARKOW, FRED C.1

BARKOW, WILLIAM F.1

BARTLETT, GEORGE D.1

BARTLETT, WALTER SCOTT.1

BASSLER, EDWIN M.1

BEAN, EDWARD HOWARD.1

BELL, RAE F.1

BELL, RAYMOND ELLSWORTH.1

BENDER, WALTER HENRY.1

BERGER, WILLIAM.1

BERRESFORD, ARTHUR W.1

BETTINGER, JOHN CARL.1

BETTINGER, JOHN.1

BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM.1

BIRD, ROBE.1

BLANCHARD, ARTHUR N.1

BLATZ, GUSTAVE GROVER.1

BOEHM, FRANK J.1

BOORSE, ISAIAH.1

BORNSTEIN, MAX, M. D.1

BOUER, EDMOND A.1

BREITBACH, GEORGE F.1

BRODESSER, PETER HUBERT.1

BUCKNER, SAMUEL OWEN.1

BUCKNER, WALKER.1

BULFIN, EDWARD.1

BUNDE, FRANK CHARLES.1

BURBACH, REV. JULIUS H.1

BURGETT, WILLIAM WELLINGTON.1

BURKE, WILLIAM E.1

BURKHARDT, JOHN W.1

CALLAHAN, WILLIAM R.1

CARGILL, JOSEPH V.1

CARPENTER, MICHAEL.1

CARSON, ELMER LLEWELLYN.1

CARY, JOHN J.1

CASPER, ALOYS GEORGE.1

CLANCY, WILLIAM JAMES E., M. D.1

CLEVELAND, FRANK.1

COHN, ARTHUR H., M. D.1

COLEMAN, WILLIAM WHEELER.1

COOLEY, ROBERT L.1

CRONYN, WILLIAM JEROME, M. D. LL. B.1

CUSTER, GEORGE G.1

DAHLE, ISAK J.1

DAVIES, DAVID H.1

DAWSON, WILLIAM ALFRED.1

DICK, ADOLPH CHRISTIAN.1

DICKENS, CHARLES F.1

DIETZ, CARL P.1

DIGMAN, H. A.1

DOMOGALLA, ROBERT B.1

DREXEL, ARNOLD, M. D.1

EASTERLY, CHARLES MIEL.1

EELLS, DAN P.1

ELLIS, FRED C.1

ELSAS, LUDWIG.1

ELSER, ALBERT C.1

ERNSTER, PETER WILLIAM.1

FALK, CLARENCE RUDOLPH.1

FELLENZ, PRANK W.1

FERGUSON, FRANK N.1

FIEBING, J. H.1

FIEBRANTZ, CHARLES H.1

FINNEGAN, THOMAS P.1

FISCHER, JOSEPH T.1

FLEMING, WILLIAM JAMES, M. D.1

FOSTER, ALBERT WILLIAM.1

FREIHUBE, ROBERT C.1

FRIEND, RALPH M.1

FRIEND, SAMUEL R.1

GATES, PERRY D.1

GIEBISH, JOHN A.1

GLAUS, CHRISTIAN.1

GRAEBNER, W. H.1

GRANGER, CHARLES A.1

GRASSLER, EDMUND.1

GRIFFIN, EDWARD THOMAS.1

GROSSENBACH, GUSTAV W.1

GRUTZA, FRANK J.1

HANDLEY, JOHN J.1

HANNAN, WILLIAM FRAWLEY.1

HARMS, HENRY C.1

HARNISCHFEGER, HENRY.1

HARPER, WILLIAM D.1

HARVEY, ALBERT J.1

HASTEN, CHARLES J.1

HATHAWAY, CHARLES H.1

HAUKOHL, ROBERT GUSTAV.1

HEATH, FREDERIC.1

HEINL, JOHN G.1

HENDERSON, E. O.1

HENDERSON, MAURICE L., M. D.1

HERRMANN, WILLIAM J.1

HERZ, HARRY.1

HIBBARD, BURTON LUCIUS.1

HOKANSON, RUDOLF.1

HUGHES, EDGAR JONES.1

HUNTER, MORTON R.1

JACOBUS, CHARLES CURTIS.1

JOHN, WALTER A.1

JOHNSON, CALEB E.1

JUERGENS, CARL H.1

KALWEIT, GEORGE W.1

KANEY, JOHN S.1

KASSNER, GUSTAVE A.1

KEENAN, WALTER HUBERT.1

KELLY, JOHN T.1

KENNEY, CLARENCE JOHN, M. D.1

KENNEY, REGINALD I.1

KENNEY, THOMAS SHERIDAN.1

KIEFER, ALOIS LEO.1

KIEFER, HENRY A.1

KLUG, EDWIN.1

KLUMB, WILLIAM J.1

KOCH, GEORGE.1

KOEHRING COMPANY.1

KOENIG, ULRICH P.1

KOLLOGE, WILLIAM.1

KOPMEIER, JOHN HENRY.1

KOSS, RUDOLPH M.1

KOSS, THEODORE.1

KOSZEWSKI, SYLVESTER W.1

KRAFT, FREDERICK A., M. D.1

KRINGEL, AUGUST F. W.1

KRONSHAGE, ERNST HILDEBRAND.1

KULZICK, JOHN.1

LA BUDDE, OTTO A.1

LAFLIN, HERBERT N.1

LANGE, ALBERT CHARLES.1

LANGE, ELMER OTTO.1

LANGE, FREDERICK AUGUST.1

LANGE, WALTER WILLIAM.1

LANGLOIS, ARCHER GILLETT.1

LE BRECK, MARCELLIN JOSEPH.1

LEISK, DANIEL T.1

LUEDKE, EDWARD A.1

LUHMAN, GEORGE BURTON.1

LUKASZEWSKI, ANTHONY J.1

MACDOWELL, DOUGLAS LORNE.1

MACHLEITH, ALBERT H., M. D.1

MACRAE, MURDOCH FARQUHAR, M. D.1

MAECHTLE, EVERETT WOODS, M. D.1

MALONE, THOMAS C., M. D.1

MATT, PIUS JOHN.1

McCORKLE, SAMUEL C., M. D.1

McCOY, JOHN JAMES.1

McELROY, HON. WILLIAM J.1

McMAHON, WILLIAM CHARLES.1

McMILLAN, THOMAS CAMPBELL.1

MEISENHEIMER, RUDOLPH H.1

MERTEN, ALFRED NICHOLAS EDWARD, M. D.1

MEYER, LEONARD E.1

MILLARD, LEE WELLS.1

MOEBIUS, CARL WILLIAM.1

MOLITOR, JOHN PETER.1

MOMSEN, WILLIAM H.1

MORISON, GEORGE ABBOT.1

MORRIS, CHARLES M.1

MORRIS, HON. OSCAR HASKELL.1

MORRIS, WILLIAM H.1

MOSS, GEORGE FRENCH.1

MUENZBERG, PAUL F.1

MULHANEY, HON. JOHN J.1

MULLETT, H. A.1

MURPHY, WILLIAM J., M. D.1

MURTAUGH, JAMBS CASS.1

NACKIE, WILLIAM P.1

NEILSON, GEORGE WHITTIER, M. D.1

NIVEN, JOHN M.1

NOURSE, RUPERT A.1

NOWAK, EDWARD A.1

O'DONNELL, EDWARD J.1

OHM, HERMAN A.1

OTJEN, HON. THEOBALD.1

PAETOW, WILLIAM J.1

PATEK, GEORGE W.1

PATEK, MARK L.1

PFLEGER, WILLIAM.1

PIEPLOW, WILLIAM L.1

PIERCE, FREDERICK L.. 1

POHL, WILLIAM M.1

PORTER, EDGAR JUDD, D. C.1

PRENGEL, ALEXANDER THEODORE.1

PRINGLE, JAMES.1

QUICK, EDWARD WILLIAM, M. D.1

RADKE, JOHN W.1

RAY, WALTER WILLIAM.1

REDDEMAN, EDWIN A.1

REEDER, CHARLES W.1

REEKE, ALFRED.1

REEL, HERMAN.1

RIBBE, FRED W.1

ROEHR, ROLAND B.1

ROEMER, FRANK JUSTUS.1

ROGERS, FRED W.1

ROHR, JOHN H., M. D.1

ROMADKA, JOHN M..1

ROMBERGER, JOSEPH.1

RUGGABER, CAPTAIN HENRY E.1

RYBOLD, RICHARD ANTON.1

SCHMIDT, WILLIAM.1

SCHMITT, CONRAD.1

SCHNEIDER, JOHN M.1

SCHOENECKER, ALBERT J.1

SCHOENLEBER, OTTO J.1

SEMMANN, LIBORIUS.1

SENN, ULRICH, M. D.1

SHARP, JOHN EDWARD.1

SHERMAN, LEWIS, JR.1

SIEKERT, HUGO P., M. D.1

SIESEL, SIDNEY M.1

SMITH, EVERETT G.1

SMITH, HARRY BENJAMIN.1

SMITH, THOMAS L.1

SOEVIG, JOHN.1

SPEICH, ALBERT.1

SPENCER, EDWARD WHITON.1

SPERBER, HENRY.. 1

SPINDLER, WILLIAM C.1

SPOOR, AARON H.1

STAADT, EDWARD W.1

STEIGER, EMIL HERMAN.1

STEINER, JOSEPH T.1

STEVENS, MORTIMER IRVING.1

STUESSER, JOHN C.1

TALSKY, RUDOLPH M. J.1

TESCHAN, WALTER F.1

THE CUTLER-HAMMER MANUFACTURING COMPANY.1

THOMAS, GEORGE LEROY.1

THOMPSON, WILLIAM MAGILL.1

TIERNEY, JOSEPH B.1

TRAUB, MORITZ H.1

TRAVER, CHALMER BOORMAN.1

TRECKER, THEODORE.1

TRESTER, HENRY FRANK.1

UHRIG, EDWARD A.1

ULBRICHT, OSWALD H.1

UMBREIT, MILTON HENRY.1

VAN DYKE, ERNEST WALTER.1

VOLAND, PHILLIP W.1

VON SCHLEINITZ, RENÉ.1

VOSS, CHARLES A.1

WALKER, EMERY L.1

WALTERS, ALBERT.1

WEBER, JACOB H.1

WEHE, WALDEMAR C.1

WEIDNER, ARWIN R.1

WEIHER, JOHN J., JR.1

WEISSLEDER, HON. GEORGE H.1

WENDT, CHARLES AUGUST.1

WENGERT, EUGENE.1

WERWATH, OSCAR.1

WEST, GEORGE A.1

WETZEL, AUGUST.1

WHITNALL, CHARLES B.1

WHITNEY, BRUCE.1

WILSON, JOHN ARTHUR.1

WOLFE, HUBERT OTTO.1

WOLFF, WILLIAM MARTIN.1

WOLLAEGER, JOHN G.1

WOLLER, JOHN W.1

WRIGHT, ERNEST.1

WURSTER, EMANUEL A.1

YAHR, FRED E.1

PORTER, EDGAR JUDD, D. C.

Prominent among the chiropractors of Milwaukee is Dr. Edgar Judd Porter, who has been practicing in this city since 1916. He is one of Milwaukee's native sons, his birth having occurred here on the 13th of February, 1893, a son of George Y. and Ellen F. (Judd) Porter. George Porter was born on the farm of his father, Willard G. Porter, in Waukesha county and died in 1916. He won prominence in the real estate and insurance circles of Milwaukee. The grandfather of our subject was a native of Vermont and for many years was classed among the representative agriculturists of Waukesha county. Mrs. Ellen F. Porter is living and makes her home with Dr. Porter. She was a daughter of Alfred Judd, who was born near Ithaca, New York, and came to Wisconsin in 1845, locating in the town of Waterford, Racine county.

In the acquirement of an education Edgar Judd Porter attended the Milwaukee grade schools and graduated from the South Division high school in 1911. He then enrolled in Marquette University and became a student in the department of civil engineering, completing that course in the required time. In 1915 he entered the Palmer school of Chiropractic and graduated from that institution in 1916 with the degree of D. C. He immediately took up practice in Milwaukee, where he has remained ever since, having an extensive and steadily increasing patronage. He maintains offices in Suite 404 of the Majestic building and from all over the state people come to him for treatment.

On the 10th of January, 1920, Dr. Porter was united in marriage to Miss Natalie Sommer, a daughter of Solomon Sommer of Milwaukee. Her father was born in Germany and later removed to Russia, in which country Mrs. Porter's birth occurred. To the union of Dr. and Mrs. Porter one daughter has been born, Constance Elizabeth.

Although Dr. Porter leans toward the republican party, he follows an independent course in politics and has never taken an active part. Fraternally he is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose at Milwaukee and he likewise holds membership in the Kiwanis Club. In line with his profession he is a member of the Milwaukee Chiropractors Association, the Wisconsin Chiropractic Association and the Universal Chiropractors Association. Dr. Porter is a trained civil engineer and an expert on X-ray work, having in his office the latest machine and using this largely in diagnosing cases. Unlike many chiropractors, therefore, he never gropes in the dark when treating a patient and this feature of his practice has been one of the causes of his great success. He has won the utmost confidence and respect of all persons with whom he has come in contact and he stands high in his profession.

TRAVER, CHALMER BOORMAN.

Chalmer Boorman Traver, secretary of the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, is a man of broad vision as well as of practical executive ability, and the combination of these qualities well fits him for the responsibilities of his present connection. Mr. Traver was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, March 29, 1889, his parents being Frank A. and Jennie (Boorman) Traver, both of whom are also natives of Wisconsin.

Mr. Traver is an alumnus of the old East Side high school and the University of Wisconsin, which he attended from 1907 to 1910. For some time he was a reporter on the old Evening Wisconsin and also did special work for the Milwaukee Sentinel and the old Milwaukee Free Press, thus gaining broad experience through newspaper connections. Later he was with the Banker-Manufacturer as associate editor and left that position to enter the army in the spring of 1918. He became a lieutenant of field artillery, stationed at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and afterward at Camp Jackson, South Carolina, as instructor of gunnery and battery executive officer.

After receiving his discharge Mr. Traver went west and for a few months engaged in silver mining in Arizona. On the 1st of November, 1919, he returned to Milwaukee to accept the position of secretary of the Milwaukee Association of Commerce and through the intervening period has been very active in the upbuilding of this organization.

On the 28th of December, 1920, Mr. Traver was married to Miss Zoa McComb of Wichita, Kansas. They reside at 560 Astor street. Mr. Traver is a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and is identified with various clubs and patriotic and commercial organizations. He belongs to the Milwaukee Athletic Club, the Milwaukee Press Club and to Alonzo Cudworth Post of the American Legion. He is vice president of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, a member of the Optimists Club and of the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association, one of the directors of the Wisconsin Commercial Secretaries Association and a member of the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries.

CARY, JOHN J.

Milwaukee county has been signally favored in the class of men who have -occupied her public offices. There have been but few who have been called to positions of public trust who have not been loyal to the work reposed in them, and numbered with the men who are now carefully and wisely directing the business affairs of the county is John J. Cary, who is filling the office of member of the board of supervisors. He was born in the city of Milwaukee, May 8, 1883, and is a son of Richard J. and Catharine (Code) Cary, both of whom were also natives of this city. The family on both sides were early settlers of Milwaukee and of Irish lineage. The father was a cabinetmaker by trade and was associated with the firm of Matthew Brothers, furniture dealers, for a number of years. He afterward engaged in the saloon business and passed away in 1905. His widow is living and yet makes her home in Milwaukee.

John J. Cary was educated in the public and parochial schools of this city, passing through consecutive grades to the high school. On the 2nd of July, 1902, he became associated with the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York as a messenger boy and he has since filled various positions with the company, being promoted to the office of cashier in 1914. He has served with the company for twenty years and is one of the best known insurance men of the city. His capability and fidelity are plainly indicated by his long connection with the corporation which he represents and he has done a large amount of business, which has brought him to a position of affluence and has added materially to the resources of the company.

On the 23rd of September, 1908, Mr. Cary was married to Miss Lillian Fitzgerald of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, and they have become the parents of two children: Genevieve Patricia, who was born March 17, 1912; and William Francis, born September 3, 1915. The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church and Mr. Cary is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In April, 1920, he was elected a member of the board of supervisors of Milwaukee county. He is now serving on the committees on finance, public buildings and grounds, sheriffs and coroners and unemployed, these being the most important committees of the board. His public record is highly satisfactory, by reason of the promptness and efficiency with which he discharges his duties and the thoroughness with which he delves to the root of all public matters, learning exactly what is best to do in regard to the business of the county.

HUNTER, MORTON R.

Morton R. Hunter, president of the Hunter Machinery Company, handling construction and industrial equipment, with plant and offices at 208-210 Wells street in Milwaukee, was born in Chicago in 1891. He was accorded liberal educational privileges, completing a course in civil engineering in the University of Michigan. Following his graduation he became identified with the engineering department of the Chicago & North Western Railroad and made steady progress in his business career. His thoroughness and ability brought him prominently to the front and he became assistant editor of the Engineering Record. His identification with the Hunter Machinery Company dates from its incorporation in 1916, at which time business was established under the name of the Kern-Hunter Company with a capital stock of five thousand dollars. Success attended the venture from the beginning and in 1917 the capital stock was increased to twelve thousand dollars. In the following year the name was changed to the Hunter Machinery Company and the capital increased to twenty-five thousand dollars, while in 1922 the company became capitalized for forty thousand dollars. Something of the steady growth dollars in the year 1916 to over seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in 1921. Mr. Hunter has been president of the company from the beginning, with M. P. Allen as of the business is indicated in the fact that the sales have increased from fifty thousand secretary and treasurer. The company occupies its own property, including warehouse and shop, and is now engaged in the erection of a modern office building. They carry an extensive stock for construction and industrial equipment and their slogan is: "Our machinery and supplies make good or we do." The company keeps the largest purely construction equipment stock in Wisconsin and all orders are promptly filled. This is the oldest firm in their line in Wisconsin and they employ construction equipment mechanics to render service to their patrons. They do not handle any one machine but everything that is in demand, their stock covering indeed a wide range, as their catalogue and advertising sheet show.

On the 12th of February, 1917, Mr. Hunter was united in marriage to Miss Hazel Marie Uebele of Chicago, and they have one son. Mr. Hunter's appreciation of the social amenities of life is indicated in his connection with the Milwaukee Athletic Club, the Wisconsin Club and the Michigan Alumni Association. He is also identified with many prominent trade organizations and societies, belonging to the American Association of Engineers, the Builders & Traders Exchange, the Association of Commerce and the Associated Equipment Distributors. Of the last named he is the national secretary. He is also the secretary of the Housing Corporation of the Association of Commerce and he belongs to the Kiwanis Club. His interests are indeed broad and varied and he is a well-known figure in construction circles.

ELLIS, FRED C.

Fred C. Ellis, long recognized as one of the eminent members of the Milwaukee bar, was born September 14, 1874, in Oconto, Wisconsin, his parents being Oakman and Carrie (Farnsworth) Ellis. The father was a native of Oldtown, Maine, while the mother was born in Racine, Wisconsin. Oakman Ellis came to this state at the dose of the Civil war and engaged in the lumber business.

In his early youth Fred C. Ellis became a pupil in the public schools of his native city and at the age of fourteen he matriculated in the Lake Forest Academy at Lake Forest, Illinois. There he was graduated on the completion of a preparatory course in 1892, after which he entered Amherst College at Amherst, Massachusetts, and finished his studies by graduation in 1896. Having thus qualified by liberal college training for life's practical and responsible duties, he returned to Wisconsin and here entered upon the study of law in the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He carefully prepared for the bar and was graduated in 1898, in which year he was admitted to practice in the courts of this state. He then entered the law firm of Olin & Duller, with which he remained until 1901, when he came from Madison to Milwaukee and here formed a partnership with Willett Spooner. This firm maintained an existence with the two partners until 1911, when it became Lines, Spooner, Ellis & Quarles, ranking as one of the foremost law firms of the state. Mr. Ellis remained a partner until his death and was long accounted one of the foremost representatives of the Milwaukee bar. His knowledge of the law was comprehensive and exact and he was seldom, if ever, at fault in the application of a legal principle. He found ready solution for intricate and involved legal problems and his presentation of a case was always clear, concise and convincing.

On the 23rd of November, 1904, Mr. Ellis was married to Miss Augusta Helmholz, a daughter of A. C. and Elizabeth (Vogel) Helmholz, the former a native of Germany, while the latter was born in Milwaukee. Mr. Helmholz came to Milwaukee in the year 1861 in company with his parents, while the Vogel family arrived in the early '50s. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis: Oakman, whose birth occurred April 8, 1906; Frederick B., born September €0, 1907; Farnsworth, February 17, 1911; and Elizabeth, July 11, 1916.

The family circle was broken by the hand of death when on the 17th of April, 1917, Mr. Ellis was called to his final rest. He was widely and favorably known here — a popular member of the Milwaukee Club, the University Club and the Town Club. His friends were legion and everywhere he was spoken of in terms of the highest regard. He was a lifelong republican, much interested in politics and thoroughly informed at all times concerning the leading questions and issues of the day, hut he never aspired to office. He belonged to the Congregational church and his life» ever guided by high principles, made him one of the valued citizens of Milwaukee, honored and respected by all who knew him because of his marked capability in this profession, his fidelity in citizenship, his loyalty to the highest moral standards and his devotion to his home and family.

MOMSEN, WILLIAM H.

William H. Momsen, superintendent of the Milwaukee County House of Correction, and one of the well-known and efficient public officials, loyal at all times to the trust reposed in him, was born in this city and is the owner of the house in which he first opened his eyes to the light of day. His parents were Peter A. and Louise A. (Grunert) Momsen, both of whom were natives of Germany, coming to Milwaukee about 1849. The father crossed the Atlantic alone, while the mother came with her parents and their marriage was celebrated in this city. Peter A. Momsen was a cabinetmaker by trade and for a number of years was in the employ of A. D. Seaman & Company. He led a life of industry and usefulness and retired from business a few years prior to his death, which occurred in 1910.

William H. Momsen was educated in the public schools of Milwaukee and also attended the Spencerian Business College. He afterward started out in the business world as an employee of the banking firm of Houghton, McCord & Company, whom he served as messenger boy. He remained with that company for thirteen years, winning promotion from time to time until he was serving as teller, when he resigned to enter the Plankinton Bank as assistant cashier. Later he was advanced to the position of cashier and remained with that institution until 1893. He next turned his attention to the real estate and loan business and was thus engaged until his appointment as inspector of the House of Correction in the fall of 1903. This position he has since filled and his record is one highly creditable, his labors being a notable force in the improvement of the institution and methods of its conduct. The House of Correction has a farm comprising four hundred and seventy-five acres and the inmates are required to work thereon. The building can accommodate about eight hundred and an individual can be sent to the institution for five years. The buildings are located on a beautiful site, the grounds are well kept and everything about the place is conducted along the most sanitary lines and indicates the most thorough and efficient supervision on the part of the superintendent.

In 1885 Mr. Momsen was married to Miss Mary Louise Groth, a native of Germany, and they have become parents of three children: Walter P., who is with the Fischer Furniture Company; Richard P., an attorney now located in Rio Janeiro, Brazil; and Viola Louise, the wife of Walter G. Meyer, assistant manager and secretary of the W. H. Pipkorn Company of Milwaukee.

Mr. Momsen is a member of the Wisconsin Club, also of the Calumet Club and the Milwaukee Athletic Club of which he served as president in 1887, when the dues were but three dollars per year. He is likewise a member of the Old Settlers Club and is identified with the Elks, the Eagles, the A. L. A. and with the National Union. His progressive spirit is manifest in his active interest in everything that pertains to the welfare and upbuilding of the city and the maintenance of high civic standards.

KOLLOGE, WILLIAM.

William Kolloge, president of the Kolloge Hardware Company of Milwaukee, has introduced into the business of which he is the head, a spirit of steady expansion and development that has resulted in making it one of the important enterprises of this character in the city. What he has accomplished represents the fit utilization of his powers and talents and his labors at all times have been wisely directed. Born in Milwaukee on the 22nd of August, 1882, he is a son of Henry and Elise (Roepke) Kolloge, the former a native of Germany, while the latter was born in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It was about the year 1857 that the father crossed the Atlantic and became a resident of Milwaukee, where later he engaged in the hardware business as a member of the firm of Hilgendorf, Kolloge & Company, located at No. 303 Third street. There he engaged in business for thirty-seven years, becoming one of the forceful and representative merchants of the city and retiring only a short time before his death, which occurred July 19, 1913.

William Kolloge obtained his education in the public schools of this city and received his initial business training by entering his father's store, starting at the age of seventeen years. There he continued until he reached the age of thirty-two, when he and his brother, Herman F. Kolloge, organized the Kolloge Hardware Company and established business at 367 Third street. They began with a small retail store and their business has steadily increased and developed throughout the intervening years until they now have a large trade with the contractors and factories, making theirs one of the important enterprises of this character in the city.

In 1906 Mr. Kolloge was married to Miss Pauline Schlinsock, a daughter of Captain G. and Anna (Hoffman) Schlinsock. They have become parents of five children; Thelma, William, Lorna, Herbert and Alva. The religious faith of the family is indicated in their membership in the Trinity Lutheran church. Mr. Kolloge is also identified with the Association of Commerce and is in hearty sympathy with the plans and purposes of that organization to develop and extend the trade relations of the city and to maintain high standards of municipal service and of civic progress. He likewise belongs to the Builders & Traders Exchange. In politics he is a republican of the liberal type, voting for the principles of the party at national elections but casting an independent ballot at local elections if his judgment dictates this to be the wiser course. He has never been an aspirant for public office, preferring always to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs, and the thoroughness and capability with which he has managed his interests in association with his brother have led to the attainment of substantial prosperity.

COLEMAN, WILLIAM WHEELER.

William Wheeler Coleman, president of the Bucyrus Company of South Milwaukee, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, November 21, 1873, and is a son of William W. and Ellen Gibbons (Hiss) Coleman, who were also natives of Maryland, where their ancestors had lived through several generations. The father was a banker of Baltimore for many years, associated with the Farmers & Planters Bank as one of its officials. He died in 1890, having for some time survived his wife, who passed away in 1878.

William Wheeler Coleman was educated in public and private schools of Maryland and after completing his studies in Baltimore entered the Lehigh University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated as a metallurgical engineer in the class of 1895. He entered the employ of the Bethlehem Iron Company, now the Bethlehem Steel Company, with which he remained for a time, and later was with the Crucible Steel Company of America at Clairton, Pennsylvania. He was afterward with the Latrobe Steel Coupler Company at Melrose Park, Illinois, and in September, 1905, became identified with the Bucyrus Company, being elected to the presidency in 1911. This company is engaged in the manufacture of excavating machinery, including all kinds of dredges, steam, gas and electric shovels, drag lines, railway wrecking cranes, spreader plows, trench excavators, castings and forgings.

Mr. Coleman was married June 20, 1899, to Alice Frazier of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and they have a daughter, Isabel. Mr. Coleman belongs to the Milwaukee Athletic Club, the Milwaukee Club, the Milwaukee Country Club and other clubs of this city and also has membership in the University Club of Chicago and the University Club of New York. During the war with Germany he was active in several war agencies and in 1918 went to Washington, D. C, as assistant to the chief of ordnance in charge of Artillery and Accessories.

WOLFF, WILLIAM MARTIN.

William Martin Wolff, resident manager at Milwaukee for Wisconsin, for the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, of Baltimore, that state, has occupied this position for a period of six years and his long association with the insurance and surety business, indicates most clearly the record which he has made for capability, fidelity and progressiveness. A native of Minnesota, he was born in Winona, June 7, 1878. His father, John F. Wolff, who passed away in January, 1919, was born in Germany and was a son of William Wolff, who was also a native of that country and on coming to the United States took up his abode in Milwaukee about 1874. John F. Wolff was a youth of eighteen years when he accompanied his parents on their emigration to the new world and for a long period conducted business under the name of the Red Star Soap Company in this city. He married Emilie Fiebrantz, who is still living in Milwaukee and whose birth occurred near this city. Her father was August Fiebrantz. who was engaged in the flour and feed business in Milwaukee and owned a farm near the city on the Green Bay road — property that is still in possession of the family. He was born in Germany and came to the United States in the '50s. To Mr. and Mrs. John F. Wolff were born two sons, the brother of William M. being Arthur C. Wolff, who was a sergeant in the ordnance department during the World war and was on active duty for fourteen months. He is now living in Milwaukee and is a member of the firm of Lupinski & Wolff, contractors and builders.

William M. Wolff obtained his early education in the public schools of Milwaukee, passing through consecutive grades to the East Side high school and putting aside his textbooks at the age of seventeen years in order to make his initial step in the business world. At that time he entered the law office of Sylvester, Scheiber, Riley & Orth, with whom he studied for two years, and later he became private secretary to Charles F. Pfister, with whom he remained for two years, having in the meantime studied stenography in an evening school. His next position was with the firm of Meyst, Pammel & Lukens, general agents for the Milwaukee Casualty Company, whom he represented as office manager. Two years later the agency was sold to Roger L. Merrill, and Mr. Wolff continued with Mr. Merrill as assistant manager until August, 1915, when he was appointed manager for the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland. He had since represented the latter corporation at Milwaukee and is a prominent figure in financial circles of the city. His capability and thorough reliability are recognized as salient features in his career. He is also a director of the Citizens Building & Loan Association.

On the 15th of July, 1902, Mr. Wolff was married to Miss Grace Rivers. Her father is Alexander Rivers, superintendent of the paint shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company. He was born in Wisconsin and passed away in January, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Wolff have one daughter, Deane, who is now a pupil in the public schools of this city.

Mr. Wolff belongs to the Association of Commerce and is serving on its membership committee. He also belongs to the Milwaukee Athletic Club, to the Wisconsin Club, the City Club and to the Ozaukee Country Golf Club. His career has ever been marked by steady progress, and step by step he has advanced until he now occupies a prominent position in the business circles of the city, especially in connection with financial and investment interests.

LUKASZEWSKI, ANTHONY J.

Anthony J. Lukaszewski, business manager of the Nowiny Polskie, the Polish daily of Milwaukee, was born in Poland, June 2, 1882, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Kaczmarek) Lukaszewski, who were likewise natives of that country and came to America in 1892. For a year they were residents of Manistee, Michigan, and then came to Milwaukee, where the father still resides. The mother has departed this life.

Anthony J. Lukaszewski attended school in Poland for three years and after arriving in Milwaukee was a student in St. Josaphat parochial school, while in 1904 he was graduated from Marquette University with the Bachelor of Arts degree. Liberal educational opportunities thus well qualified him for life's practical and responsible duties. In early manhood he devoted six and a half years to life insurance business as representative of the Prudential Insurance Company, in the positions of auditor, inspector, etc. His connection with the Nowiny Polskie dates from 1913, at which time he took charge of the advertising department and in 1918 he was made manager of the paper, which is a daily publication with a circulation of about ten thousand. Under his management the paper has made steady and notable progress in its advertising, in its circulation and in other ways. In fact it has prospered beyond the expectation of Mr. Lukaszewski and the owners of the publication. His labors have been of a most practical character and results have been thoroughly gratifying.

In 1906 Mr. Lukaszewski was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Bieganski, who died in 1916, leaving six children: Anthony, Rose, Bernard, Lucy, Boleslaus and Helen. On the 7th of August, 1917, Mr. Lukaszewski was again married, his second union being with Miss Agnes Kubacki of Milwaukee, and their children are two in number: Leon and Martha.

Mr. Lukaszewski is a member of the Advertisers Club and also of the Milwaukee Association of Commerce. He is likewise president of the Polish Opera Club, the only organization of its kind in the country. He is a lover of the stage and theatrical interests and has taken part in various amateur performances. Moreover, he does a great deal of public speaking and is particularly well known in this connection among the Polish people. During the World war period he was constantly busy addressing audiences in both English and Polish, speaking in all the large shops concerning the vital questions and issues of the hour. He also served on the reception committee greeting the returning soldiers and arranged receptions for visiting Frenchmen and the men of high rank coming to the United States from allied countries. He belongs to the Equitable Fraternal Union and to the Polish National Alliance and the Polish Association of America. He is deeply interested in the welfare and progress of the land of his birth and at the same time has ever displayed the utmost loyalty to the land of his adoption. He keeps in touch with all the vital questions and issues of the day and is especially active in supporting those measures and projects which promise benefit and progress for his adopted city. His ability has largely been used for public benefit as well as for individual advancement and he is today widely known in Journalistic circles.

COOLEY, ROBERT L.

Robert L. Cooley, a prominent educator and one of the founders of the Milwaukee Vocational School which is today one of the largest of the kind in the country, was born at Fredonia, Ozaukee county, Wisconsin, in 1869. His early educational training was received in the village graded school and eventually he completed a course of study at Waubeka, after which he obtained a certificate to teach in 1886. He then taught in a country school for two winter terms and when not thus engaged his attention was given to work on farms and in factories. He was at all times ambitious to improve his own education, however and he eagerly utilized every opportunity in that direction. For one year he was a student in the Oshkosh State Normal School, which he left in order to teach in a graded school at Newburg, Washington county. He thus augmented his financial resources, after which he returned to the Normal School and was graduated with the class of 1894. In the same year he accepted the position of assistant in the high school at Oconto, Wisconsin, and in the following year he became city superintendent of schools and principal of the high school at that place, there remaining until 1903, when he came to Milwaukee as principal of the school at Eighteenth and Cedar streets. He was afterward transferred to the school at Ninth and Ring streets, where he served until November, 1912, when he became the director of vocational schools, which at that time were being inaugurated under the law passed in 1911. Work under this law was not started until November, 1912, when the local board of industrial education elected Mr. Cooley as its first director and in this position he has continued. He has gained fame and prominence as an educator and especially as one of the founders and promoters of the Milwaukee Vocational School, which is today one of the largest of the country and one of the best equipped, while its system of instruction is most thorough and comprehensive.

On the 1st of September, 1898, Mr. Cooley was united in marriage to Miss Carrie S. Ide, a daughter of the Rev. George H. Ide, pastor of the Grand Avenue Congregational church of this city. They have two children: Katherine Ide, born January 5, 1905; and Margaret Ide, born September 14, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Cooley occupy a very enviable position, especially in those social circles where true worth and intelligence are accepted as a passport to good society.

NOURSE, RUPERT A.

Rupert A. Nourse is a prominent figure in industrial circles of Milwaukee as the vice president and general manager of The Stowell Company, having been identified with that concern and its predecessor for the past seventeen years. His birth occurred in Hallock, Peoria county, Illinois, on the 10th of December, 1873, his parents being Morris Alonzo and Sara (Prentiss) Nourse. The father served in the Civil war as a member of the Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry. In the paternal line the ancestry is traced back to Francis and Rebecca Nourse, who emigrated from Yarmouth, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1638. Rebecca Nourse suffered martyrdom during the witchcraft delusion in Salem in 1692. She was one of the prominent martyrs of that time and a monument was erected to her memory in Salem with an Epitaph written by John Greenleaf Whittier. The family has an honorable military record, representatives of the name having participated in the Revolutionary war, the War of 1812 and the Civil war. On the maternal side Rupert A. Nourse is a descendant of "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the distinguished American general. The maternal ancestors settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1642.

R. A. Nourse supplemented his early educational training by a course of study in Drake University of Des Moines, Iowa, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts as a member of the class of 1895. During the two succeeding years he pursued postgraduate work at the University of Chicago. His attention was first devoted to the profession of teaching and from 1896 until 1899 he served as superintendent of public schools at Keswick, Iowa, where he organized the public school system, added a high school and also erected new buildings, his efforts proving a potent factor in the development of the educational interests of the town. The years 1900 and 1901 were given to instruction as assistant professor of Latin in Drake University. It was in 1901 that he first became identified with industrial interests, embarking in business as a manufacturer of door hangers at Racine, Wisconsin. Three years later he disposed of this business to the Stowell Manufacturing & Foundry Company of South Milwaukee, with which concern and its successors, The Stowell Company, he has been associated in various capacities to the present time. He served as secretary prior to being made vice president and general manager, his present official position.

The business now conducted under the name of The Stowell Company, founders and manufacturers, was organized in 1886. In Milwaukee, by S. H. and E. Y. Moore as the Moore Manufacturing & Foundry Company and the factory was located in the Menominee valley. In the early '90s the plant was removed to South Milwaukee, where the manufacture of hardware specialties, such as barn door hangers and rail, elevator door fixtures, tackle blocks, hot air registers, etc., was continued. In 1896 the Hon. John M. Stowell, one of the founders of Filer & Stowell and one-time mayor of Milwaukee, purchased the business and changed the name to the Stowell Manufacturing & Foundry Company. The corporation continued the manufacture of the same lines, and also did contract work in grey iron castings. In 1899 a malleable iron foundry was added and some new hardware specialties introduced, such as malleable clevises, malleable shoe lasts and stands, wagon and carriage malleable hardware. In 1901 the concern Increased its holdings with a second malleable foundry and the specialty lines continued with the addition of link belt chain, hay tools and some other agricultural specialties. In 1904 the Midland Iron Works of Racine, Wisconsin, was purchased and its line of automatic fire door equipment, barn door, warehouse and railroad hangers became a part of The Stowell Company's output. The molders' strike came in 1906 and the company was crippled for some time, being required to build up an entirely new foundry organization. This, however, was accomplished and the financial panic of 1907 was successfully weathered. In 1908 the Hon. John M. Stowell died and his son-in-law, the late Charles E. Sammond, who had for many years been manager, was made president. During the depression of 1913 and 1914 a reorganization was planned and a new corporation known as The Stowell Company took over the properties in 1916. The new company discontinued many of the specialty lines that had previously been manufactured and confined its operations largely to malleable hardware, malleable clevises, shoe lasts and stands and link belt chain. During the war the plant was listed as a one hundred per cent plant, manufacturing only those lines which the war industries board listed as essential to the successful prosecution of the war. In November, 1919, the land and buildings of the Pelton Steel Company, located on Chicago road and Elliott place in Milwaukee, were purchased, and in 1921 the Pelton Steel Company was absorbed. The buildings were remodeled, new ones added and the plant made into a factory for the production of malleable iron castings. This was called The Stowell Company Plant, No. 2.

Under normal conditions The Stowell Company employs from six hundred to seven hundred men. It is a member of the American Malleable Castings Association and is listed by this association as a manufacturer of certified malleable castings. Only those plants are so listed which continuously in their daily process produce material which is in accord with the requirements of the American Society for Testing Materials. The principal products of The Stowell Company are malleable iron castings, grey iron castings, electric steel castings, brass castings, link belt chain, malleable clevises and malleable hardware. The following are the officers and directors: Fred W. Rogers, president; Rupert A. Nourse, vice president and general manager; Thomas E. Ward, secretary and manager of purchases and sales; Henry J. Van Beek, treasurer; and Fred Vogel, Jr., William H. Schuchardt, Fred L. Sivyer and T. H. Spence, additional directors.

Besides his identification with The Stowell Company, Mr. Nourse is the president of the Midland Company of South Milwaukee, manufacturers of saddlery hardware, automobile accessories and wrought chain. He is likewise a member of the board of directors of the Line Material Company of South Milwaukee, manufacturers of outdoor lighting material. The important and extensive business interests of Mr. Nourse are capably conducted. Tireless energy, keen perception, honesty of purpose, a genius for devising the right thing at the right time. Joined to everyday common sense, guided by resistless will power, are the chief characteristics of the man.

On the 27th of August, 1896, in Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Nourse was united in marriage to Miss Arma Jones, a daughter of Isaac Jones, who was a member of the Third Iowa Cavalry during the Civil war. She is a graduate of Drake University of Des Moines, Iowa, which conferred upon her the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1895, and in 1896 she acted as principal of the high school at Brooklyn, Iowa. By her marriage she has become the mother of a daughter and two sons, namely: Clair Prentiss, Evelyn and Robert. The first named, who was graduated from Cornell University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1919, served in the United States navy during the World war and is now secretary and treasurer of the Midland Company of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the 9th of July, 1920, he wedded Miss Florence Silvernail of Corydon, Iowa.

Mr. Nourse takes an active and helpful interest in the city's moral advancement as chairman of the board of trustees of the Park and Prospect Christian church and as a member of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association and of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a popular member of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, and is well known in both business and social circles of this city, where his position is that of a leading manufacturer and foremost citizen.

FREIHUBE, ROBERT C.

Robert C. Freihube, a hardware merchant whose enterprise, diligence and determination have been the basic elements of a well merited success, was born in the town of Menomonee, Waukesha county, Wisconsin, July 11, 1870, a son of Traugott and Wilhelmina (Liebers) Freihube, both of whom were natives of Germany but came to America with their respective parents when quite small. The paternal grandfather. Christian Freihube, was a pioneer of Milwaukee who arrived in this city before its incorporation. He devoted his life to the occupation of farming and Traugott Freihube also concentrated his efforts and attention upon agricultural pursuits throughout his life. Both he and his wife are deceased.

Robert C. Freihube pursued his education in the public schools and afterward began clerking in a grocery store, being thus employed for several years. He was later with the National Enameling & Stamping Company for a number of years and was in the employ of the Frankfurth Hardware Company for some time. He was also associated with Gimbel Brothers and then began business on his own account in 1902, at Twenty-fourth and Walnut streets as a member of the Weinsheimer Hardware Company. In 1911 a removal was made to North avenue and Thirty-fifth street and three years later the business was established at its present location — 3815 North avenue, where Mr. Freihube now has a large stock of hardware and merchandise. His business has reached extensive and gratifying proportions and his entire career has been characterized by an energy and determination that carries him steadily forward to success.

In 1894 Mr. Freihube was married to Miss Louise Zarling of Milwaukee, and they have become parents of four children: Beatrice, Gerhardt, Robert C. and Ruth. Mr. Freihube has throughout his life manifested a most public-spirited interest in the general welfare and in many ways has contributed to progress and improvement in the city. He was the second president of the Milwaukee Zoological Society and was instrumental in bringing the first animals to the Zoo. He has taken great interest in upbuilding the Zoo, making it a point of educative interest for young and old. He has likewise served as a member of the executive board of the mayor's advisory board for three years. He organized the first advancement association that was on North avenue and has been a member of many of its important committees, serving at the present time as chairman of its legislative committee. He belongs to the American Luther Association and is very active in religious work, serving now as chairman of the finance committee of the southeast district of the Wisconsin synod. Mr. Freihube is one of the best known business men on North avenue and one of the most highly esteemed residents of that section of the city. His work has indeed been of usefulness and benefit along many lines, and while actuated by the laudable ambition of attaining success in business, he has never allowed this to monopolize his time and attention to the exclusion of other interests but has recognized the opportunity to be of assistance in public matters and has ever contributed to the progress and improvement of the city, his labors being ever of a tangible character, productive of substantial and valuable results.

PRINGLE, JAMES.

James Pringle, president of the Milwaukee Casket Company, was born November 9, 1867, in Ontario, Canada, his parents being James and Mary Jane (Walker) Pringle. He acquired his education largely in the schools of his native country, pursuing his studies there to the age of thirteen years, when he went to Chicago, where he made his initial step in the business world by securing the position of office boy. He worked his way upward to a clerkship on the Chicago Board of Trade and afterward returned to Ontario, where for ten years he operated a flour mill, developing a business of substantial proportions there. At the end of the decade he disposed of his mill and turned his attention to the manufacture of clothing in Ontario, his output being handled by the ready-made clothing dealers. He devoted about ten years of his life to this business and then, selling his plant, removed to Milwaukee, where he succeeded his brother in the Milwaukee Casket Company on the 2nd of January, 1919. His brother, Thomas J., was secretary and manager of the company up to the time of his death in May, 1918, and James Pringle is the president and manager. The business was founded in 1875, has since been incorporated and its annual sales now amount to four hundred thousand dollars. The founder of the enterprise was D. R. Johnson, who remained as president to the time of his death in 1907. The secretary and treasurer of the company is H. Nauman, who has been associated with the business for more than thirty years, while one of the employees has been with the house for forty-seven years, and a number of others have been in the employ of the, concern from twenty to thirty years. There has never been a labor strike during the entire existence of the business. The company Insures the lives of its employees and the most harmonious relations have always existed because of the fairness and justice maintained toward those in their service and the fact that a good wage has always been paid. The business is now one of the large Industrial Interests of Milwaukee and Mr. Pringle is proving himself a splendid executive in control of the enterprise as Its president.

Fraternally Mr. Pringle is well known as a Mason, being a loyal follower of the teachings and purposes of the craft. He is also a member of the Rotary Club and his appreciation of the social amenities of life is shown in his connection with the Milwaukee Athletic Club and the Ozaukee Country Club.

HASTEN, CHARLES J.

Charles J. Kasten is actively identified with one of Milwaukee's representative business Interests as vice president of the Alsted-Kasten Company, jewelers. He was born in Milwaukee in June, 1857, a son of Charles F. and Johanna Kasten. Both parents were born in Bremen, Germany, coming to this country and locating in Milwaukee at an early date.

Mr. Kasten received his education in the Milwaukee public schools and was then apprenticed to John Marr, an engraver, with whom he remained for a period of five years, after which he entered the jewelry business of James H. Hoes. Later, going to Chicago, he associated himself with the jewelry house of S. Hyman Company. In 1880 he returned from Chicago to enter the firm of C. Preusser & Brother. In 1900 he severed his connection with this firm and with his present partners founded the firm of Alsted-Kasten Company, jewelers and silversmiths at 121-123 Wisconsin street.

JUERGENS, CARL H.

Carl H. Juergens, who has been successfully engaged in general law practice in Milwaukee for the past eight years. is numbered among the able representatives of the profession in this city. His birth occurred in Davenport, Iowa, on the 19th of May, 1884, his parents being Charles A. and Minnie H. (Knappe) Juergens. The father, a native of Schleswig-Holstein, emigrated to America when a youth of eighteen years and settled at Davenport, Iowa, where he engaged in the harness business and subsequently turned his attention to the flour jobbing trade.

Carl H. Juergens, who was a little lad of about five years when brought by his parents to Milwaukee, acquired his early education in the public schools and his more advanced training in the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1909. Four years later he received the degree of LL. B. from that institution on the completion of a course in law. During the interim he taught in the West Division high school for two years. He was admitted to the bar on the 18th of June, 1913, and entered upon the active work of his profession in Milwaukee. With the exception of the first year, which he spent in association with the firm of Schmitz, Wild & Gross, he has here since practiced Independently, with offices at No. 431 Twelfth street. He has been accorded an extensive and Important clientage of a general character, largely commercial law cases, and is widely recognized as an attorney of pronounced ability and deserved success. He is a director of several corporations and is serving as secretary of the Vliet Street Advancement Association.

In 1919 Mr. Juergens was united in marriage to Miss Nora Toepfer of Madison, Wisconsin, and they have become parents of a son, Richard Carl, whose birth occurred December 3, 1920. The family residence is at No. 535 Fifty-first street.

Mr. Juergens took an active part in all war activities during the recent world conflict, serving as a member of the legal advisory board and doing splendid work in all the drives and also on the County Council of Defense. He was captain of his district in the nineteenth ward. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, holding membership in Park Lodge No. 177, of which he is a past chancellor. He is also a well-known member of the Milwaukee Athletic Club and in the line of his profession is connected with the Milwaukee County Bar Association. In motoring he finds needed rest and recreation. His record as a lawyer has won him recognition among the leading young representatives of the profession in Milwaukee, his course as a citizen has been characterized by public-spirited devotion to the general good and in social circles he has gained the warm regard and friendship of all who know him.

SPOOR, AARON H.

Among the men who for many years were active factors in the business circles of Milwaukee, contributing to the substantial development and progress of the city, was Aaron H. Spoor, who passed away in September, 1919. He had reached the advanced age of eighty-two years, his birth having occurred in East Troy, Walworth county, Wisconsin, in June, 1837. He represented one of the old and well known pioneer families of the state, his parents being Adolphus and Julia (Goodrich) Spoor, who came from Connecticut to the middle west, settling at East Troy about 1836. There they spent their remaining days and contributed to the pioneer development and later progress of the community.

Aaron H. Spoor was reared at the place of his nativity and acquired his early education in the schools of East Troy, while later he became a student in the University of Wisconsin at Madison, thus receiving liberal training for life's practical and responsible duties. When his education was completed he made his initial step in the business world by becoming identified with a lumber enterprise at Columbus, Wisconsin. Later he established a casket factory in Berlin, this state, and about 1880 removed to Milwaukee, where he organized the Milwaukee Casket Company, his place of business being at Fifteenth and St. Paul streets. He became president of the company and so continued to the time of his demise, and as the years passed he developed the business to one of substantial proportions owing to the thoroughness of his methods and his reliability in all trade transactions.

In 1871 Mr. Spoor was united in marriage to Miss Ella M. Blanchard, a daughter of George W. and Jane (Taylor) Blanchard, who were early settlers of East Troy.

Mr. Spoor was a Mason and loyally followed the teachings and purposes of the craft, which recognizes the brotherhood of mankind and the obligations thereby imposed. In politics he was a lifelong republican, supporting the party from the time that age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He also belonged to the Old Settlers Club and his mind was stored with many interesting reminiscences of pioneer times. He always rejoiced in the progress that was made and in a quiet but nevertheless helpful way he bore his part in the work of general advancement and improvement, withholding his support from no plan or measure that he believed would prove of public benefit or would constitute a feature in the upbuilding of community, commonwealth or country.

BETTINGER, JOHN.

One of the well-appointed and attractive mercantile establishments of South Milwaukee is that owned and controlled by the firm of Bettinger & Sons, who for a number of years have been ranked with the leading merchants of the city. Mr. Bettinger, whose name Introduces this review, was born in Bavaria, Germany, January 31, 1852, his parents being Louis and Katharine (Hess) Bettinger, who were also natives of that country. In the spring of 1869 the parents came to the United States with their family, landing at New York city, from which point they traveled westward to Sauk county, Wisconsin, where they located on a farm. After a number of years they returned and removed to the town of Spring Green, Wisconsin, where both passed away.

John Bettinger was a youth of seventeen years at the time of the emigration of the family to the new world. He had been educated in the public schools of his native town, attending to the age of sixteen years and following the removal to Wisconsin he worked on the home farm for about a year. He afterward learned the blacksmith's trade and subsequently he established business on his own account, turning his attention to the manufacture of buggies, wagons, sleighs, etc. This he carried on in connection with the conduct of a hardware store in Spring Green, Wisconsin. In. the spring of 1894 he removed to South Milwaukee and was one of the pioneers of the town, which had recently been started. He erected the building now occupied by the Charles Franke Drug Store and there opened a department store, which he very successfully conducted, remaining on that corner for ten or twelve years. He afterward erected his present building, a two-story and basement structure sixty by one Hundred and twenty feet. In this he opened a department store, handling dry goods, men's furnishings, groceries and other lines. He continues in the business and has the leading store of the kind in the town, carrying a very extensive stock and enjoying a very large patronage. As his business grew and developed he admitted his sons, Carl and H. Emil, to a partnership and their interests are carried on under the style of Bettinger & Sons. The father is also a director of the South Milwaukee Bank and is recognized as a man of sound judgment and keen discrimination in carrying forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.

In 1878 Mr. Bettinger was married to Miss Louise Zilg, who has passed away. Later he married Mary Knapp of Milwaukee. By his first marriage there were five children: Carl, Lillian, Emil, Leona and Beulah. To the second marriage there were born three children: Ora, Ervin and Viola. Mr. Bettinger has always been commendably interested in public affairs and for several years has served as alderman of South Milwaukee, exercising his official prerogatives in support of many plans and measures for the general good. His worth is widely acknowledged and his friends are legion.

BETTINGER, JOHN CARL.

John Carl Bettinger is the president of the board of education of South Milwaukee and a member of one of the leading mercantile firms of the city. He was born at Spring Oreen, Wisconsin, December 21, 1879, and is a son of John and Louise (Zilg) Bettinger. He was educated in the schools of his native town, passing through consecutive grades to the high school and he also attended the South Milwaukee high school, while still later he became a student in the Whitewater Normal School. For three years he engaged in teaching in South Milwaukee and then embarked in business in connection with his father. This he carries on under the name of Bettinger & Sons, the firm being formed in 1904. Since then the business has been carried on under this style and the enterprise and progressiveness of the sons ably round out and supplement the broad experience and sound Judgment of the father.

On the 14th of September, 1920, Mr. Bettinger was married to Miss Hilda M. Lins of Spring Green, Wisconsin, and they occupy an enviable position in the social circles of South Milwaukee. Mr. Bettinger is a member of the Knights of Columbus and during the World war he took a most active interest in all that pertained to the support of the Federal government and the welfare of the soldiers. He therefore aided in promoting many drives in South Milwaukee and was chairman of several of the war committees. The cause of education has ever found in him a stalwart champion and he has done everything in his power to promote the interests of the schools, serving now as president of the school board. In this connection he lent his aid and support to every plan for advancing the standards of efficiency in the schools and his work has been far-reaching and resultant.

GROSSENBACH, GUSTAV W.

For more than a half century Gustav W. Grossenbach has been associated with the Milwaukee Mechanic's Insurance Company, in which he has risen to the vice presidency. The steps in his orderly progression are easily discernible. They have resulted from close application, thoroughness and efficiency — qualities which any may cultivate and which always leads to desired results. Mr. Grossenbach was born at Kirn, Germany, September 8, 1851, a son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Kreutzer) Grossenbach. He obtained his education in the schools of his native place, his training being such as the common and high school system afforded and when fourteen and a half years of age he was graduated. The following year, or in 1866, he sailed for the United States, landing in New York city after a voyage of sixty-six days on one of the old-time sailing vessels. It was the hope of enjoying better business opportunities that led him to sever his connection with the fatherland and come to the new world. He made his way direct to Milwaukee and was for three years connected with a manufacturing Jewelry establishment, learning the trade. At the expiration of that period the shop was closed and the young man had to seek other employment. In June, 1870, he entered the employ of the Milwaukee Mechanic's Insurance Company and celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company in June, 1920. Steadily he worked his way upward through various positions, promotion coming to him in recognition of his trustworthiness, his unfailing industry and his increasing ability. He was made assistant secretary on the 21st of October, 1889, and became secretary July 18, 1898. On the 21st of January, 1901, he was made the second vice president of the company and also elected one of its directors and eighteen years later, or on the 20th of January, 1919, he was elected to the vice presidency.