Bio of SUKEY, Paul George (b.1858 d.1919), Hennepin Co., MN
=========================================================================
USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information
on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities,
as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is
obtained from the contributor of the file.
These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or
presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to
use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written
consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter,
and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent.

If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives 
Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm
Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find 
the submitter information or other files for this county.
FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives

Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Laura Pruden
Submitted: June 2003
=========================================================================
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
========================================================
submitted by Laura Pruden, email Raisndustbunys@aol.com
========================================================

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

Vol III, pg 792-795
PAUL GEORGE SUKEY
Paul George Sukey, who had been a resident of Minneapolis for more than two
decades when called to his final rest, on the 19th of November, 1919, at the age
of sixty-one, was for a number of years actively identified with the business
inter­ests of the city as general manager of the North Star Malting Company. An
adopted son of the United States, he fully appreciated the opportunities and
advantages offered in this country and utilized them in the greatest measure. He
was born of German parents at Messina, Sicily, Italy, on the 7th of August,
1858, the family name being von Sükey and he was christened Paul George Edward
von Sukey. After coming to America he adopted the name of Sukey. He obtained his
early education in the schools of Hanover and Zurich. Subsequently he attended
the universities of Wurzburg and Heidelberg and the polytechnic school at
Stuttgart. At the early age of twenty years he was master of six languages and
had greatly augmented his knowledge by traveling all over the different European
countries and northern Africa. He studied especially the different forms of
government and early came to the conclusion that a democracy was the ideal and
that the United States of America approached this more closely than any other
country on earth. His choice of a future home was doubtless further influenced
by the fact that during his travels he had met the lady who was later to become
his wife and who was a resident of Michigan.
It was in the year 1883 that Paul G. Sukey came to America and located at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, where he accepted the position of sugar chemist and chief
agri­culturist for the Bay City Sugar Company. The beet sugar industry in this
country was at that period in its infancy. Mr. Sukey was also for a time
associated with the chemistry department of the University of Michigan. From Ann
Arbor he re­moved to Binghamton, New York, to engage in the sugar industry in
the east. In 1898 he came to Minneapolis, in the capacity of sugar chemist for
the Minnesota Sugar Company of St. Louis Park, remaining as such until 1902,
when he became identified with the North Star Malting Company. Of the latter
corporation he acted as general manager to the time of his death, contributing
in substantial measure to the continued growth and success of the business.
In September, 1883, at Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Sukey was united in marriage to
Miss Augusta Herz, daughter of August Herz of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who came to
the United States from Germany in 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Sukey became the parents of
four children: Mrs. Tessa Byam of Tampa, Florida; Paul George, Jr., who is a
resident of Minneapolis; Grover Cleveland, living in Washington, D. C.; and Mrs.
Clara Elizabeth Jenks of Port Huron, Michigan.
During the presidential campaign of 1896 Mr. Sukey was one of the ardent
supporters and principal speakers for William Jennings Bryan, touring the
country and delivering lectures in behalf of the free silver movement. He was a
steadfast supporter of the democratic party from the day he became an American
citizen. A man of domestic taste, he found his greatest happiness at his own
fireside, in the companionship of his wife and children, and identified himself
with no clubs nor organizations. Of striking appearance and charming
personality, cultured and re­fined, he won a host of warm friends who deeply
mourned his passing, while in his death Minneapolis sustained the loss of one of
her substantial and representative citizens. His widow still resides in this
city.