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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 five out of five, containing a wealth of biographies of important people.

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Volume 5: Biographical

JOSIAH S. CURREY

Memoirs of Milwaukee County 5, J. S. Currey

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WORTHING, EUGENE.

Eugene Worthing, one of the progressive business men of Milwaukee, is a representative of one of its best business interests as president of the Bayley Manufacturing Company with plant at 732 to 760 Greenbush street. He was born at Centre, Rock county, Wisconsin, on the 14th of February, 1864, on his father's farm, his parents being Ira and Mary E. (Irving) Worthing, both deceased. The father was a native of Palermo, Maine, and moved to Wisconsin as a young man. His demise occurred in 1889, at the age of seventy-three years. Mrs. Worthing was born in Old Town, Maine, and passed away in 1899, having survived her husband ten years.

In the acquirement of an education Eugene Worthing attended the common schools at Centre and the Evansville Seminary, all in Wisconsin, and in due time entered Bryant & Stratton Business College at Chicago. Upon completion of the course he accepted a position as stenographer for the B. F. Sturtevant Company of Boston in its branch office at Chicago and for twenty years was active in that connection, during that time doing much to further the interests of the company. When he severed his relations with that company he was manager of the branch office and had learned every phase of the blowing, heating and ventilating business. His next position was as sales agent for the Buffalo Forge Company, in connection with Edwin M. Bassler, operating under the name of Worthing, Bassler & Company at Chicago, and he maintained that association for three years. In 1913 the company left Chicago and located in Milwaukee, where they purchased the business of the Bayley Manufacturing Company, an old and established concern of the city. Mr. Worthing is president, W. C. Kussmaul, secretary and treasurer, and E. M. Bassler, vice president and engineer. They are the manufacturers of fan system and ventilating equipment, planing mill exhausters, pressure blowers, etc., and automatic and throttling type horizontal and vertical steam engines. They are likewise specialists in leather drying and are heating, ventilating and drying engineers.

On the 2nd of July, 1892, Mr. Worthing was united in marriage to Miss Rose B. Meredith, a daughter of Edwin Meredith of Wales, who came to America at an early day and located at Attica, Wisconsin. In that community the birth of Mrs. Worthing occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Worthing have a daughter, Helen, who is living at home.

Since attaining his majority Mr. Worthing has been a supporter of the republican party but has ever reserved the right to vote independently, should he think another party's candidate the best man for the office. He takes an active interest in political affairs and is well informed on all important questions and issues of the day. The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian church. They are members of the Westminster church, of which Mr. Worthing is one of the trustees. He is affiliated with no secret societies but holds membership in the Association of Commerce and the City Club. Improvement and advancement have been Mr. Worthing's watchwords and he has never lost sight of the fact that each year should record a growth in business. Straightforward and reliable under all circumstances, courteous and affable to his patrons, Mr. Worthing endeavors to please and he has so conducted his business affairs as to reflect credit and honor, not only upon himself, but upon the city in which he resides. Mr. Worthing and family reside at 534 Stowell avenue.

SCHOONMAKER, JOHN RAYMOND.

John Raymond Schoonmaker of the Schoonmaker Construction Company, in which he is a partner of his brother and father, was born November 29, 1887, at Wauwatosa, in the first frame house erected west of Milwaukee. His father, Harry Ogden Grant Schoonmaker, was born on the 4th of July, 1863 — the day on which General Grant captured Vicksburg — and is now living in Wauwatosa. He remains active in connection with construction interests, especially in the building of municipal and country roads and also in the execution of paving contracts. He is a partner in the Schoonmaker Construction Company, in which he is associated with his two sons. He was born in Wauwatosa, being a representative of one of the old pioneer families of this section of the state. His father was John N. Schoonmaker, who was born in Albany, New York, and was a representative of one of the oldest American families, the ancestral line in the United States being traced back to 1663. The town of Schoonmakerville on the Hudson is named in honor of this family, the first settlement being made at that place. John N. Schoonmaker. the grandfather of John Raymond Schoonmaker, was born in Albany, New York, and became a resident of Wauwatosa in 1856. He engaged in the manufacture of lime and also in the business of supplying stone to the rolling mills. He established what is now the G. D. Francey Coal, Stone & Supply Company, opening a quarry, and remained an active factor in the business circles of the community until his demise. He was also a man of prominence in other connections and did not a little to shape public thought and action. In the maternal line John R. Schoonmaker comes of English ancestry. His mother, who bore the maiden name of Catherine Elizabeth Pilgrim, was born at Granville, Wisconsin, on a farm that belonged to her father, Daniel Thomas Pilgrim, a native of England. Mrs. Schoonmaker died April 3, 1922. Both she and her husband were widely known in Wauwatosa and Milwaukee.

John R. Schoonmaker obtained his early education in the public schools of Wauwatosa and was there graduated from the high school with the class of 1905. Immediately afterward he turned his attention to construction work, with which he has since been connected. In 1916 he became associated in business with Walter G. Winding, under the firm style of Schoonmaker & Winding, and together they built two and a half miles of the Silver Spring cement road, a mile and a half of the Chicago cement road and also executed other important contracts. The partnership existed until 1918, when Mr. Schoonmaker entered the army, being assigned to Evacuation Hospital. No. 37. The unit was formed at Camp Grant and was stationed at Joinville, Sebastian Barracks, near Toul, in France, after being sent overseas. Mr. Schoonmaker spent seven months in France and was discharged as first class sergeant on the 13th of June, 1919. When the country no longer needed his military aid he returned and again began business operations in Milwaukee. Here he worked for S. P. Croft, superintending road grading, and in October, 1919, he began operating independently by taking a contract for concrete paving in North Milwaukee. He also did concrete work for Milwaukee county in connection with the heating of the infirmary. It was in October, 1919, that he organized the Schoonmaker Construction Company in connection with his father and his brother, Ogden Grant Schoonmaker, and the firm has since conducted a profitable business. Many important contracts have been accorded them and they now employ a large force of workmen. Over their place of business flies the flag which was used in conveying the first load of soldiers from Wauwatosa to Milwaukee on their way to active service in the Civil war.

On the 7th of November, 1917, Mr. Schoonmaker was married to Miss Lillian Alberta Goldthorp, a daughter of the Rev. Charles Edward Goldthorp. a Methodist minister, who at one time was presiding elder of the Oshkosh district. He was a native of England but spent the greater part of his life in this country and died in June, 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Schoonmaker have one child. Jane Elizabeth.

Fraternally Mr. Schoonmaker is connected with Wauwatosa Lodge No. 267. A. F. & A. M., and also with Wauwatosa Chapter, R. A. M., and Milwaukee Lodge, B. P. O. E., No. 46. He is post commander of Bernard A. Diedrich Post, No. 78, of the American Legion at Wauwatosa and is in hearty sympathy with the high standards of this organization, which is seeking so earnestly to maintain American principles, as did its members when khaki-clad they followed the stars and stripes to the battle fields of the old world. Mr. Schoonmaker belongs to the Kiwanis Club and to the Milwaukee Athletic Club. He is fond of all athletics and manly outdoor sports, is a promoter of basket-ball and during his school days was an enthusiastic football player. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party but never as an active politician. He belongs to the Wauwatosa Methodist Episcopal church and the principles of his life have found expression in many sterling qualities which have gained him the honor and high regard of his fellowmen. He has always been progressive and enterprising in business, loyal and patriotic in citizenship and stands as a splendid example of American manhood and chivalry.

SOERGEL, LEONARD.

Leonard Soergel, engaged in the plumbing business in Milwaukee, is a native son of this city, born November 28, 1869. His parents, George and Clara Soergel, were natives of Germany and arrived in Milwaukee about 1838, when the site of the present metropolitan center was adorned with only a tiny hamlet. The father located at No. 570 National avenue, where he built a blacksmith shop that is still standing, one of the old landmarks of the city. There he continued in business to the time of his death and the shop remains as a mute reminder of conditions in Milwaukee sixty years ago. In the family were the following children: John; George, who died in early life; Charles; Leonard; and the daughter, Barbara, the wife of Charles H. Pieplow of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The blacksmithing business was carried on by the two sons, John and Charles, after the father's death in 1881 and they remained active in the business until the death of Charles in 1917, after which John remained as proprietor of the' business until his death in 1919.

The birth of Leonard Soergel occurred in the second story of this blacksmith shop, the family occupying the upper floor as a residence. He acquired his education in the public schools and in early life learned the trade of plumbing and gas fitting. He thoroughly acquainted himself with the work when in the employ of others and in 1893 he established a plumbing business on his own account at 538 National avenue, while later he removed the business to No. 571 National avenue. As the years have passed Mr. Soergel has developed a business of gratifying and substantial proportions, and now has a liberal patronage.

In 1891 Mr. Soergel was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Kroll and they have become parents of two sons, George and Walter, who are associated with their father in the plumbing business as journeymen. Mr. Soergel is a member of the Local, the Slate and the National Plumbers Associations and thus keeps in touch with the trend of progress and improvement along the line of his trade. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is a member of the South Side Old Settlers Club. His life has been passed in this city and he has, therefore, been an interested witness of the changes which have occurred through a period of more than a half century. Great, indeed, has been the transformation that has been carried on by time and man and through his business affairs Mr. Soergel has contributed to the industrial development of the city.

SCHOTTLER, MARTIN.

Martin Schottler, who has been actively engaged in law practice in Milwaukee for almost a quarter of a century, is now filling the office of city attorney of North Milwaukee. His birth occurred in Washington county, Wisconsin, on the 10th of April, 1874, his parents being Martin and Anna (Bartol) Schottler, the former a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, while the latter was born in the province of Luxemburg, Belgium. Martin Schottler, Sr., emigrated to the United States in 1843, while the lady who later became his wife crossed the Atlantic in the '50s. They were married in this country during the period of the Civil war. The father devoted his attention to the operation of a farm in Washington county, Wisconsin, but subsequently became associated with the Germantown Insurance Company, of which he was one of the organizers and of which he served as secretary for many years. He also became a prominent factor in public life, being a member of the Wisconsin state legislature at the time of the Civil war and likewise acting as town clerk for a number of years. He passed away in 1892, while his wife was called to her final rest in the year 1901.

Martin Schottler was reared on the home farm in his native county and attended the country schools until fourteen years of age, subsequently spending a year as a student at Valparaiso, Indiana. He then returned to his father's farm but afterward entered the service of the firm of Landauer & Company of Milwaukee, being employed at odd jobs and at the same time studying law in the office of Judge Paul D. Carpenter. He next spent a year as a student in the law department of Valparaiso University and one of his classmates was Governor Blaine, the present chief executive of Wisconsin. In 1897 he was admitted to the bar and began practicing in Milwaukee, which city has remained the scene of his professional labors. He has always practiced independently and has built up a lucrative and gratifying clientage, ably handling the important litigated interests entrusted to his care. From 1900 until 1904 he served as justice of the peace in Milwaukee and in April, 1920, was elected city attorney of North Milwaukee, in which office he is the able and efficient incumbent.

On the 27th of October, 1900, Mr. Schottler was united in marriage to Miss Louise Ott, a daughter of George and Katharine Ott, and they have become parents of two children, Hazel and Louise. The family residence is in North Milwaukee. Fraternally Mr. Schottler is identified with Lafayette Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Calumet Chapter, R. A. M., the Knights of Pythias and the Eagles, while along strictly professional lines his connection is with the Milwaukee County Bar Association. He served as a member of the legal advisory board during the World war and contributed liberally of his time and money in support of the interests of the government.

FERRIS, JOHN E.

John E. Ferris, proprietor of The John E. Ferris Intelligence Service of Milwaukee, came to this city from St. Louis, Missouri, where his birth occurred September 21, 1877. He is a son of William M. Ferris of Illinois and Sarah E. (Estill) Ferris of Kentucky. The great-grandfather of Mr. Ferris in the maternal line was Captain James Estill, who served with the rank of captain in the Virginia militia and accompanied Daniel Boone into Kentucky, thus penetrating into a pioneer region. He was killed in a fight with the Indians at Boonesboro, Kentucky, and it was the record of such tragedies that brought to Kentucky the name of "the dark and bloody ground." He was recognized by the colonial assembly as a colonial patriot and his name stands high on the list of those who attended the carrying of civilization into the western wilderness. The city of Galesburg. Illinois, was founded by the ancestors of Mr. Ferris. One of the name married a Miss Gale, whose family had followed the Ferris family westward by wagon from New York state. They determined upon the name of Galesburg. George Washington Gale Ferris, who built the Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, was a son of the union of a Miss Gale to a Mr. Ferris.

John E. Ferris is numbered among the hundreds who have profited by the pioneer activities of his forefathers and others as civilization was carried farther and farther westward. He attended the public schools of his native city and afterward became a student in the Washington University of St. Louis, being graduated from the manual training department with the class of 1896. He next entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, and later became a student in the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated on completing a scientific course in 1900. He next became a student in the medical department of the St. Louis University, which he attended in 1901-2. Later he represented the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in the Michigan legislature in 1903, putting forth the claims of the exposition for recognition by the Wolverine state. When that task was completed he joined the medical and scientific publication department of Parke Davis & Company of Detroit, Michigan, and remained with the house until 1908. He afterward engaged in the publishing business on his own account, founding and publishing the Michigan Trade Review, a journal devoted to commerce and located at Saginaw, Michigan. In 1913 Mr. Ferris joined the sales force of the Jewett & Sherman Company of Milwaukee and in March, 1914, was advanced to the position of city sales manager of that house, continuing in the position until the spring of 1917, when he was appointed into the service of the bureau of investigation of the United States Department of Justice at the Milwaukee office. This was the secret service branch of the department, under direct supervision of the United States attorney general. In March, 1918, Mr. Ferris was transferred to the Military Intelligence branch of the General Staff Corps of the United States army, as agent in charge of the state of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He continued thus to serve until the close of the war, doing civilian secret service. It was his activity of that character in behalf of the government that led him in November, 1918, to establish The John E. Ferris Intelligence Service, confining its offices to corporation and law firm work exclusively. In this connection the company has built up a splendid clientele and its activities have been of a most important character. Mr. Ferris is also the president of the Milwaukee Dishwasher Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and one of the developers and patentees of the Milwaukee Hydro-lectric Dishwasher.

On the 11th of September, 1901, Mr. Ferris was married to Miss Elizabeth Wylie of Saginaw, Michigan, who received the Ph. B. degree of the University of Michigan. They have become parents of four children: James W., Elizabeth, John E. Jr., and Robert Rodes.

In his political views Mr. Ferris has long been a republican. During the Roosevelt campaign of 1912 he was special correspondent for several newspapers and was the nominee in the same year on the Roosevelt ticket for the office of state senator from the twenty-second Michigan district. He was also one of the delegates from Wisconsin to the St. Louis caucus in May, 1919, when was organized the American Legion, and was made chairman of the committee on organization at that convention. He has been called upon for official duty in various public connections, especially in the different societies to which he belongs. He has been the vice president of the Cornell University Alumni Association of Wisconsin, and is president of the University of Michigan Alumni Association of Wisconsin, having been elected to this position in November, 1921. He was a member of the board of governors of the Optimist Club of Milwaukee and editor of the Optimist Fly Paper and he is a member of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. In March, 1921, he was elected second vice president of the International Secret Service Association. He likewise has membership connection with the City Club, with the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His membership connections are indicative of his progressive spirit. He is constantly reaching out along broadening lines and each forward step has brought him a wider opportunity, not only for business advancement, but for public service and assistance to his fellowmen and on no occasion has this opportunity been neglected by him.

LUICK, JOHN.

John Luick, a respected resident of Milwaukee, who is approaching the eighty-second milestone on life's journey, was born April 5, 1840, in Niagara county, New York, his parents being Jacob and Elizabeth Luick, who were natives of the city of Stuttgart, Wurttemberg, Germany. They came to America in 1825, settling near Niagara Falls, where the father engaged in farming until 1851. He then sold his property in the Empire state and removed to Milwaukee in the spring of that year. Here he purchased an immigrant house, which he conducted for several years until the structure was destroyed by fire, proving a total loss, as he had no insurance.

John Luick was a lad of but eleven years when the family came to Milwaukee and his education was acquired in the third ward school of this city but his opportunities in that direction were quite limited, for he was only twelve years of age when he began working, in order to provide for his own support. He entered the employ of Henry Miller to learn the confectionery trade and continued with him for about six years. He next worked for Henry George, making Christmas toys and continued in that connection until the spring of 1861. Scarcely had the smoke from Fort Sumter's guns cleared away when on the 16th of April of that year he enlisted for service in the Union army, joining Company H, First Wisconsin Infantry under Colonel Starkweather, his term of enlistment being in response to the first call for three months service. On the 21st of August he was mustered out and returned to Milwaukee. On account of ill health he did not reenlist.

A little later Mr. Luick went to New York city, where he obtained employment at his trade and there remained until the spring of 1864. In that year he obtained a position at Norfolk, Virginia, where he continued until April, 1865. He was in New York city at the time funeral services were there held for Abraham Lincoln.

Mr. Luick afterward returned to Milwaukee, where he was married in February, 1867, to Miss Monica Adler, a daughter of Philip and Maria Adler, who were natives of Germany and early pioneer settlers of Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Luick became the parents of five children: John F., who has passed away; William F.; George F., also deceased; Maria Anna, the wife of Peter Hirshboeck of Milwaukee; and Henry C, deceased. The wife and mother departed this life in November, 1876, and Mr. Luick was married again in 1878, his second union being with Miss Elizabeth Hoff, a daughter of Stephen A. Hoff. They had a family of five children, one of whom died in infancy. The others are: Frank N.; Adolph J.; Catherine, now deceased; and Ida E., who is a graduate of the Marquette Law School and is an attorney of Milwaukee.

In the year of his first marriage Mr. Luick established business on his own account at No. 248 West Water street, there engaging in the manufacture of candy, cakes and ice cream. He remained at that location for six years and then sold out, after which he purchased a place on Milwaukee street and carried on business there for thirty years, or until 1903, when he retired. Through the intervening period of eighteen years he has enjoyed a rest which he has truly earned and richly deserved. His life was one of intense and well directed activity for many years and his enterprise and diligence brought to him the measure of success which now supplies him with all of the comforts and some of the luxuries of life. He was reared in the Catholic faith and is now a communicant of St. Mary's Catholic church. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he proudly wears the little bronze button which proclaims him a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a veteran of the Civil war.

LUICK, WILLIAM FERDINAND.

A notable career of successful achievement is that of William Ferdinand Luick, who is today at the head of the Luick Ice Cream Company, known throughout the country as one of the most extensive manufacturers of ice cream in the United States. The business has been developed through the enterprise and energy of Mr. Luick, in whose vocabulary there is no such word as fail. Obstacles and difficulties in his path seemed to serve but as an impetus for renewed effort on his part and his entire course has been characterized by constructive methods that have not only upbuilded his own fortunes but have constituted a very substantial source of Milwaukee's business greatness and prosperity. Mr. Luick was born in this city December 7, 1869, and is a son of John and Monica (Adler) Luick. the former a native of Niagara Falls, New York. The mother passed away in 1876. The father married again and he and his wife make their home in Milwaukee, where they have many friends.

William F. Luick obtained his early education in St. Mary's parochial schools, from which he was graduated at the age of twelve years and later he attended Marquette College. When a youth of fourteen he initiated his business career by entering the employ of a plumber as clerk and office helper, there remaining for two years. On the expiration of that period he accepted employment in his father's confectionery establishment at No. 433 Milwaukee street. There he learned the business with which he acquainted himself in principle and detail, remaining as assistant to his father for several years. At the age of nineteen he went to New York city, where he remained for a year and gained further business knowledge and experience in the eastern metropolis. He next returned to Milwaukee and once more entered his father's establishment but afterward went to Chicago, where he was employed by one of the leading confectioners of the city. When he again came to Milwaukee he resumed business associations with his father and on the 1st of April, 1897, established the Luick Ice Cream manufacturing plant. He first rented a place on Sixth and Grand streets, in the rear of a building and established business with a cash capital of but seven hundred dollars. A few months later he bought a place on Jackson and Ogden streets, arranging the terms of payment on the property which necessarily had to be bought on credit. There he conducted his ice cream and confectionery manufacturing establishment and the business grew with great rapidity, so that at the end of about five years he disposed of his retail and manufacturing confectionery interest in order to concentrate his entire time and attention upon the ice cream business. He established an exclusive ice cream manufacturing plant and has since bent every energy toward the development and upbuilding of the trade, so that in the year 1920 his business reached nearly two million dollars, representing an output of over one million five hundred thousand gallons of ice cream. His is one of the largest and best equipped ice cream manufacturing plants in the United States and was the first in the country to manufacture brick ice cream by machinery. In fact, this factory has the only machinery of the kind in America. The company produces more gallons of brick ice cream than any factory in the United States and its success is due to quality and reliable business methods. The most sanitary conditions prevail in every branch of the factory and it has a complete laboratory under the direction of a registered chemist. The highest standards are thus maintained in making the firm's products and its progressive sales methods have brought most substantial results to the upbuilding and expansion of the trade.

On the 10th of May, 1893, in St. Gall's church in Milwaukee, Mr. Luick was united in marriage to Miss Clara B. Bangs, a daughter of Jesse Austin and Matilda Jane ( Eckert ) Bangs. Her father is a descendant of Edward Bangs, the Pilgrim, the ancestral line thus being traced back to 1591. The first of the family in America crossed the Atlantic to Plymouth. Massachusetts, in 1623. Mr. and Mrs. Luick became parents of two daughters: Edna, now deceased: and Marguerite E., who is the wife of Roman A. Brodesser and they have one child, Nancy Clare. Mr. Brodesser is associated in business with Mr. Luick.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church and Mr. Luick belongs to the Knights of Columbus and is likewise a member of all leading clubs of the city. He served two terms as national president of the Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers. He is a life member of the City Club and of the Athletic Club and has always given his political support to the republican party. While he has never sought nor desired political preferment he has stood loyally in support of the principles in which he believes, yet has allowed nothing to interfere with the capable conduct of his business interests. He has never feared to venture where favoring opportunity has led the way. possessing character and ability, and these qualities have carried him into most important commercial relations.

SEAMAN, IRVING.

Irving Seaman, prominent in the business circles of Milwaukee as secretary and treasurer of the Seaman Body Corporation, manufacturers of automobile bodies, was born in this city on the 8th of August, 1881, a son of William Stewart and Kate D. (Hibbard) Seaman. The grandfather, Alonzo Duretto Seaman, was born in New York state and located in Milwaukee in 1840. His son, William Stewart, was here born and became prominent in industrial circles as manufacturer of automobile bodies and telephone booths. He passed away in 1910, a representative citizen of this community. Mrs. Seaman, who survives, was also born in this city, a daughter of William B. Hibbard.

Irving Seaman attended the German-English Academy and the East Side high school, and upon graduating from the latter institution in 1899, enrolled in the University of Wisconsin. In 1903 he was graduated therefrom, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science. While a student at the University he was prominent in all campus activities and he became a member of Chi Psi, a national college fraternity. Upon the completion of his education he went to Philadelphia, where he became experimental engineer with the Electric Storage Battery Company, a connection he maintained for three years. The last two years he was sales engineer for that company in Chicago. In 1906 he came to Milwaukee and associated with his father in the conduct of the W. S. Seaman Company, making telephone booths and switchboards. In 1909 they commenced making automobile bodies. The following year W. S. Seaman died and the concern was then incorporated as the W. S. Seaman Company, with Irving Seaman as secretary. In 1919 the name was changed to the Seaman Body Corporation, with H. H. Seaman, who entered the business in 1910, as president; J. T. Wilson, vice president: and Irving Seaman, secretary and treasurer. The corporation manufactures closed automobile bodies for the different makes of cars and sells them to their representative companies. The business has grown to extensive and important proportions and the Nash Motors Company still retains the interest it acquired in the corporation in 1919.

On the 28th of July, 1920, Mr. Seaman was united in marriage to Miss Anne Douglas, a daughter of Harry Douglas of Great Barrington. Massachusetts, who is now living retired. He is a native of New York. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Seaman one son has been born, Douglas. His birth occurred on the 27th of April, 1921. Politically Mr. Seaman is a republican but he never takes an active interest in party affairs. He is a consistent member of St. Paul's Episcopal church of Milwaukee. Socially he is identified with the University Club, of which he was president during the years 1919 and 1920; the Milwaukee Club; the Town Club, of which he was president in 1918; the Fox Point Club, the Milwaukee Country Club and the Rotary Club. He is interested in all that pertains to Milwaukee's progress and upbuilding and is a member of the Association of Commerce and the City Club. He .was in Washington during the World war as a dollar-a-year man on the War Industries Board. Mr. Seaman is an outdoor man and is a golf and tennis player, having won the state championship in the doubles one year. He is also fond of motoring. He looks at life from the standpoint of a practical, energetic business man who is cognizant of the fact that opportunities are open to all and that the attainment of success depends upon the energy, determination and persistency of purpose of him who seeks it.

TRESTER, CHARLES A.

Charles A. Trester, president of the Milwaukee Soda Supply Company and also of the Peerless Products Company, possesses those resolute and determined qualities which, guided by sound judgment, constitute the basis of individual success and also feature in the commercial growth and development of the community. He has always lived in the state which is still his home and Milwaukee today claims him as a representative citizen. His birth occurred in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, March 27, 1861, his parents being Adam and Ann (Groeff) Trester. both of whom were natives of Germany, whence they came to the United States in 1854. They first took up their abode in Milwaukee but afterward removed to Sheboygan, where the father was engaged in the clothing business. For some time he also filled the position of cutter with the firm of Mueller Brothers, tailors of Milwaukee. For several terms he filled the office of aldermen in Sheboygan and was keenly interested in the public welfare. Both he and his wife are deceased.

Charles A. Trester was educated in the schools of his native city to the age of seventeen years and in 1878 he came to Milwaukee. Here he worked at the printer's trade for a time and then entered the employ of E. R. Pantke & Company, dealers in hats and furs on East Water street. He remained with that house for twenty years, having charge of the business through a considerable period and later he became associated with Gimbel Brothers, when they opened their hat and cap department. A year later he established a clothing store at Twentieth street and Fond du Lac avenue and there continued in business for five years, at the end of which time he sold to Stumpf & Langhoff. In company with Otto Imse he then organized the Milwaukee Soda Supply Company, which in 1916 was incorporated with a capital stock of ten thousand dollars, with Charles A. Trester as president, Mrs. Antonia Imse, vice president, Otto Imse, secretary, and Mrs. Augusta Trester. treasurer. They manufacture all kinds of carbonated beverages and syrups and largely sell to the local trade. They occupy a building thirty by one hundred and fifty feet and they are now at the head of a substantial business enterprise returning to them a gratifying annual income. Mr. Trester is the originator of the method of carbonating root beer in steel tanks which are tapped without any extra pressure put on. This product was placed on the market only in the season of 1921 and he is also the patentee of the foam regulator which is attached to the faucet in the keg.

In 1887 Mr. Trester was married to Augusta Polzin, who was born in Germany and came to the United States with her parents when only about a year old. Mr. and Mrs. Trester have two sons: Herault A. and Carl P. The latter was in the war service school for bakers and cooks, located at Camp Grant. He was on duty there for fourteen months and received a commission as first-class sergeant, remaining at Camp Grant throughout his connection with the army and for six months after the armistice was signed he engaged in feeding the men going to their homes. He is now associated with his father in business. The eldest son. Herault A., is chief engineer with the Metal Forms Corporation of Milwaukee. Coming to this city when a youth of seventeen years empty-handed, Charles A. Trester has steadily worked his way upward in business, utilizing every opportunity that has come to him, his capability and worth gaining him advancement from time to time when in the employ of others, while his thrift and industry eventually made it possible for him to engage in business on his own account. He is today at the head of an important productive industry and his business is steadily increasing.

MYERS, I. JAMES.

I. James Myers, manager and one of the owners of the Eagle Lye Works of Milwaukee, is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in that city on the 2nd of February, 1868. The family is of Swiss origin and the grandfather was a shepherd of Switzerland, where he spent his life, never visiting the United States. His son, Lehman Myers, who died in 1894, was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and came to the United States when about thirteen years of age, in company with a brother-in-law. He settled first at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and afterward engaged in the retail grocery business there. As the years have gone by he developed his interests along that line and became a wholesale grocer of Philadelphia. During the raid of the Confederate forces into Pennsylvania in 1863, which ended in the battle of Gettysburg, he was forcibly impressed into the Confederate service. After the Civil war he gave up his Philadelphia business and came to Milwaukee, where he established a store for the sale of lace curtains and embroidery, conducting this enterprise for two years. In 1870 he began the manufacture of lye, thus establishing a business which was the forerunner of the present Eagle Lye Works of Milwaukee. The trade today covers the United States save for that portion along the Atlantic seaboard. The company had a large export business prior to the World war and this is the only firm in the United States engaged exclusively in the manufacture of lye. It also manufactures its own tin cans and maintains a machine shop in connection therewith. The father, Lehman Myers, was one of the most highly esteemed business men of Milwaukee and his advice was many times sought by young men and those who were entering business, for it was well-known that his judgment was sound, his sagacity keen and his opinions found verification in results. Mr. Myers was a lover of horses and owned much fine pacing and trotting stock in his day. He married Pauline Stydler, who passed away January 1, 1920, having survived her husband for more than a quarter of a century. She was born in Germany and came to the United States in girlhood, her marriage to Lehman Myers being celebrated in Philadelphia.

I. James Myers pursued his early education in the sixth ward school of Milwaukee and in the fourteenth district school. He afterward took a course in the Spencerian Business College and then became associated with his father in lye manufacturing, his original position, however, being that of errand boy for the firm. He afterward worked in the factory, later became shipping clerk and successively bookkeeper and general manager and is today occupying the last named position. He thoroughly acquainted himself with every phase of the business and was well qualified to become the successor of his father on the latter's death.

Mr. Myers has two sisters, Lillian and Mrs. Florence M. Jones, the latter the widow of D. Milton Jones of Milwaukee. In August, 1905, I. James Myers was married to Miss Mary Mackut of Milwaukee, and they occupy an enviable position in the social circles in which they move. Mr. Myers has always voted with the republican party but has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking. He has ever been greatly interested in chemistry, especially as applied to his business and has delved deep into the science. He belongs to the Milwaukee Credit Men's Association, to the Milwaukee Athletic Club and to the Association of Commerce and is keenly interested in the plans and projects of the last named organization for the city's upbuilding and the advancement of its civic standards. There have been no unusual or spectacular phases in his career, nor has his success resulted from the fact that he was reared amidst exceptionally favorable circumstances. His father wisely saw that the son thoroughly acquainted himself with the business and by reason of his mastery of every phase of the trade in both the manufacturing and sales end he is now occupying his present responsible position in control of the Eagle Lye Works.

DOWNEY, WILLIAM KAVANAUGH.

William Kavanaugh Downey, who was the pioneer contractor for heating, ventilating and power plants at Milwaukee and was long at the head of the business that ultimately was conducted under the name of the Downey Heating & Supply Company, passed away on the 1st of October, 1921, after a long, busy, useful and active life, honored and respected by all who knew him. He was born near Delavan, Wisconsin, on the 25th of March, 1861, and was one of the family of ten children, whose parents were James M. and Mary Ann (Kavanaugh) Downey, the former a railroad contractor. His youthful days were spent on the old homestead farm to the age of twelve years when the family removed to Milwaukee and here he attended the old St. Gall's grammar school, continuing his education until he put aside his textbooks in order to assist in the support of the family, his father having died during the early boyhood of William K. Downey.

In young manhood the latter went to Akron, Ohio, and there learned the blacksmith's trade, returning to Milwaukee about 1882, at which time he engaged in bridge construction work. He was afterward employed by the E. P. Allis Company, with which he remained until 1886, having been advanced to the position of timekeeper ere he left that organization. He next became associated with H. Mooers & Company and in 1887 was admitted to a partnership and became manager, being elected to the presidency of the company upon its incorporation in 1893. The Downey Heating & Supply Company is the successor to Hazen Mooers Company established in 1863, which later became the Mooers-Smith & Allis, then Goodman & Mooers and afterward Mooers & Company. Beginning at the time when Mr. Downey was associated with Mooers & Company as manager, it is interesting to note that during the thirty-five years he was in the business the company which he managed was always recognized as one of the leaders in the heating industry in the northwest. Moreover, the H. Mooers Company was the first company in Wisconsin to install a mechanical system of ventilation in the state, which was put in at the old thirteenth district school about 1890. Today mechanical ventilation is used almost universally in schoolhouse heating and ventilating. But the company of which Mr. Downey was manager and ultimately became the head was the pioneer in promoting this movement in Wisconsin. The H. Mooers Company became the Downey & Kruse Company in 1904 and the Downey Heating & Supply Company in 1910. The H. Mooers Company with Mr. Downey as president and manager, was also the first in the northwest to install the Hawley down-draft furnaces and these were installed in the old north point pumping station, resulting in a great saving of fuel. These furnaces are used very extensively today all over the United States for medium sized power plants and schoolhouse work. Mr. Downey was ever alert to new advances in the science of heating and ventilating and his company was among the first to install vacuum heating systems when they first came into use some twenty-five years ago. For a half century this company has been identified with the advancement of the heating industry in Milwaukee, starting when the H. Mooers Company pushed the sale of Gold boilers, for which they were exclusive agents, and installed them extensively throughout the city and state in most of the finer residences, and many of these steam-heating systems were installed throughout the country, notably in Ohio, Alabama, North Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and Montana. Among the larger and more prominent installations of the H. Mooers Company and their successor, the Downey Heating & Supply Company, coincident with Milwaukee's development might, be mentioned the Milwaukee city hall, Pfister Hotel, Matthews block, Merrill block. Wells building, Stevenson building, Majestic theatre, T. M. E. R. & L. Co. Terminal, Milwaukee Public Museum addition, Milwaukee County Agriculture schools, Wisconsin state prison, Milwaukee County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Riverside high school, Merrill theatre, Miller theatre, Palace theatre, Franklin school at Racine, McKinley school at Racine and the Washington school at Racine.

On the 27th of November, 1886, Mr. Downey was married in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to Miss Mary Jane Coughlin, a daughter of John and Catherine (Maher) Coughlin. a pioneer family of Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Downey became parents of seven children: Margaret, now the wife of William W. Rumsey: Frank E.; Kavanaugh C; Paul C; Mary E.; and William K. and James, who are deceased. Mr. Downey passed away on the 1st of October, 1921, after a short illness. He died in the Catholic faith, having been a member of St. Rose's church at Milwaukee. He was also a fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus and was a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters. The federal administration found him a most stanch supporter during the period of the World war and at all times he was a loyal advocate of principles and projects relating to the progress and upbuilding of his community. Along business lines he had connections with the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers and the National Association of Heating and Piping Contractors. Aside from his business previously mentioned he was a director in the Badger Savings Building & Loan Association. He never sought nor desired political preferment but was a member of the Milwaukee school board in the early '90s. Left fatherless when quite young and thus early thrown upon his own resources, he made steady progress in his business career through the judicious use which he made of nis opportunities. He was ambitious to succeed and never missed a chance to progress if a legitimate opening appeared. The exercise of effort strengthened his powers, developed his executive force and ability and brought him to a point of leadership in connection with the heating and ventilating business of the state. He left behind him an example well worthy of emulation and a name honored and respected by all who knew him.

PHILLIPS, ROBERT ANDREW.

Robert Andrew Phillips, president of the Jell-Sope Company, one of the leading manufacturing industries of Milwaukee, is numbered among the self-made men of the city. Diligence and determination have enabled him to overcome obstacles and difficulties in his path and step by step he has advanced in his business career. He was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, June 13, 1878, and represents one of the old families of that country, the ancestral line being traced back to the thirteenth century. Robert A. Phillips is one of the hereditary burghers of his home city and has the freedom of the city at his command, having inherited the privilege from his ancestors. He is the only man in the United States who possesses the title of burgher by inheritance. His grandfather, also a native of Dunfermline, Scotland, was Charles Phillips, who lived to the notable age of ninety-six years. The father, Robert Andrew Phillips, Sr., died in the year 1912. He had married Margaret McPherson, who passed away in 1900. She was a daughter of James McPherson, also a native of Dunfermline, and a representative of the world-famous McPherson clan.

Robert Andrew Phillips spent his youthful days in the acquirement of a public and high school education in his native town and when his textbooks were put aside he began learning the trade of a millwright, serving an apprenticeship of seven years. He was employed during that entire period in his home town, but at length he determined not only to leave his native village but also his native land, that he might try his fortune in the new world. Accordingly, in 1903 he crossed the Atlantic to the United States and after six months spent in New York he proceeded to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, later making his way to Chicago and ultimately coming to Milwaukee in the year 1905. Here he worked as a pattern maker in the employ of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company for three years, at the end of which time he began pattern making on his own account and conducted his business for six years under the name of the Phillips Pattern Company. In July, 1920, he founded his present business, buying out the plant of the Myron E. Meyer Manufacturing Company, the oldest soap-making concern in Milwaukee, the business having been established in 1885. The company manufactures a transparent vegetable oil soap, which is used for all general cleaning purposes. It is a soft soap, which can be used to greater advantage than most of the hard soaps. Many thousands of families in Milwaukee and other parts of the state are now using this soap for domestic purposes. In February, 1921, the business was incorporated and the name changed to the Jell-Sope Company. The place of business is at No. 573 Island avenue, whence the firm sends out its product to the wholesale and retail trade, finding a market throughout the United States. It does a large mail order business.

On the 28th of September, 1907, Mr. Phillips was married to Miss Louise Rayfield of Minnesota Junction, Wisconsin, who is of German descent. They have become parents of three children: Romney, Louise and Louis, all pupils in the Milwaukee schools. Mi. Phillips and his wife are members of the Christian Science church and he belongs to Lake Lodge, No. 187, A. F. & A. M., of Milwaukee; and Lake Chapter, No. 86, R. A. M. He was made a Mason in St. George Lodge in Scotland and demitted to his present lodge. He is a loyal follower of the teachings and purposes of the craft, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit which underlies the order. He has never regretted his determination to come to the new world, for while he still has deep love for the land of hills and heather he is greatly attached to the land of his adoption, where he has found splendid business opportunities that have led him to the goal of prosperity.

GROGAN, WALTER RAYMOND.

One of the most important business interests of Milwaukee is the Grogan Photo System, Incorporated, located at 322 Reed street, of which Walter Raymond Grogan is president. To him may be credited the practical use of photographs for business purposes, which form of advertisement is now widely used throughout the country, and his system is familiarly known as "The system that creates business." A native of California, he was born in Kent, on the 20th of May, 1870, a son of James M. and Anna Grogan. both deceased The father was born on board a ship while his parents were crossing the English channel. The parents later came to this country and located in California. There John M. Grogan grew to manhood and founded the shipping town of Port Costa of that state. He likewise built up a successful grain business and in his passing in 1900 California lost one of her pioneer and representative citizens, a man who had contributed much to the growth and development of the state. Mrs. Grogan, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, preceded her husband in death, having passed away in 1892.

Walter Raymond Grogan received his education in the schools of Vallejo, California, and upon removal with his parents to San Francisco he put his textbooks aside and started out into the business world. For five years he was active in the newspaper business, being a member of the staff of the San Francisco Call, and the following three or four years he spent in railroad work, being an expert stenographer. Mr. Grogan was of an ambitious nature and spent a great deal of his spare time in studying Spanish, with the result that he soon became able to speak that language fluently. Subsequently he was sent to Central America as salesman for a printing supplies company and he likewise represented several different United States firms in Mexico and Central America. For eighteen years he was active along that line and then determined to go into business on his own account, establishing an engraving and printing business in Mexico City, which he operated with substantial success. In 1912 a revolution involved the country and he then returned to the United States and located in San Francisco, where he took up the manufacture of photo paper. He made the first pocket photo album and was the first to recognize the advantages to be obtained from using photographs for business purposes. In 1918 he removed to Milwaukee, where he established his present business, of which he has always been president. The Grogan Photo System is well-known throughout the United States and Canada, and its business has grown to extensive proportions. When Mr. Grogan first started into the business he employed but one assistant but now in addition to his five sons he has a pay roll numbering thirty-five employees. The safe, conservative policy which Mr. Grogan has inaugurated in the conduct of his business commends itself to the judgment of all and he has secured for the system a patronage which makes the volume of trade one of great importance and magnitude. Branch offices of the system are maintained in Chicago, Philadelphia and Minneapolis.

On the 5th of July, 1890, Mr. Grogan was united in marriage to Miss Laura Best, a daughter of William Best of San Francisco and to them six children have been born, all of whom are living: The eldest son, Raymond E., is now treasurer of the company and is married, having one daughter; the second son, Leslie E., is connected with his father's business as an outside man and he is married. Upon the outbreak of the World war he volunteered his services to the United States, with the result that he had charge of the United States radio station at Honolulu until the close of hostilities; the third member of the Grogan family, Walter Russell, Jr., is secretary of the company. He volunteered his services but was not accepted; Merwin is, like his brothers, active in the conduct of the business; and Elmer is still in school, working for his father in his spare time; Mildred, the youngest member of the family and the only daughter, is attending the Milwaukee public schools.

Fraternally Mr. Grogan is identified with the Masons, belonging to Toltec Lodge, No. 126, Mexico City, Mexico. He is also a member of the Milwaukee Lodge of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Mexico City, Mexico. He has no club connections but is interested in the growth and development of the community, as is indicated by his membership in the Association of Commerce. His interests have ever been conducted along broad business lines and his efforts have largely brought the business from a rather small concern to the largest and most prominent of its kind in the United States.