Bio of JOSS, Louis Harvey (b.1880), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 618-621
LOUIS HARVEY JOSS
Louis Harvey Joss, senior member of the law firm of Joss, Ohman, Fryberger &
Parker of Minneapolis, has been actively engaged in practice in this city for
the past sixteen years and is widely recognized as a most able and successful
representative of the profession. His birth occurred at Northfield, Minnesota,
on the 27th of October, 1880, his parents being Rev. Augustus Adolf Joss, D. D.,
and Mary (Powell) Joss, the former a preacher of the Episcopal church. Augustus
A. Joss was born in Antwerp. Belgium, and his wife was a native of Chenango
Falls, New York. The paternal grandparents of Louis H. Joss came from Bern,
Switzerland, and according to family records there the name was originally
Josse. The grandparents in the maternal line came from Vermont and Massachusetts
and the family boasts such distinguished an­cestors as Generals Rufus and Putnam
and Commodore Whipple. The father of Mrs. Mary (Powell) Joss served in the
Revolutionary war as a lad of fifteen years, while her brother, Rev. Samuel
Powell, participated in the Civil war as a first lieutenant of Marines.
Louis H. Joss completed a high school course at Little Falls, Minnesota, by
gradua tion with the class of 1899 and received his professional training in the
law depart­ment of the University of Minnesota, which conferred upon him the
degree of LL. B. in 1906. He also spent two years as a student in the collegiate
department of that institution before entering upon the practice of law
independently in Minneapolis in 1907. As the years have passed he has built up a
large and distinctively representative clientage and is now practicing as senior
member of the law firm of Joss, Ohman, Pryberger & Parker, with offices at Nos.
404-5-6-7-8 Northwestern National Bank build­ing of this city. His fidelity to
the interests of his clients is proverbial, yet he never forgets that he owes a
still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. He is remark­able among
lawyers for the wide research and provident care with which he prepares his
cases. At no time has his reading ever been confined to the limitations of the
questions at issue. It has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and
pro­vided not alone for the expected but for the unexpected, which happens in
the courts quite as frequently as out of them. Aside from his professional
interests Mr. Joss serves as secretary of the Traub & Mantz Mortgage Corporation
of Minneapolis, handling farm loans, and is also a director of the Brownton
State Bank of Brownton, Min­nesota.
On the 21st of September, 1910, in Minneapolis, Mr. Joss was united in marriage
to Miss Kate Townsend Bennett, daughter of William K. and Kate (Prescott)
Bennett, the former a member of the firm of Koon, Whelan & Bennett. Mrs. Joss,
like her husband, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and belongs to
the Greek letter fraternities Delta Delta Delta and Phi Beta Kappa. She is also
a member of Rebecca Prescott Sherman Chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Mr. Joss gives his political allegiance to the republican party, while his
religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. Fraternally he has attained
high rank in Masonry, belonging to Joppa Lodge, No. 300, A. F. & A. M.;
Minneapolis Consistory, A. & A. S. R.; and Zuhrah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. The
nature of his recreation is indicated by his membership in the Golden Valley
Golf Club and his standing in both social and professional circles of his
adopted city is an enviable one.