Men of Progress. Wisconsin. (pages 17-49) A selected list of
biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business,
professional and official life. Together with short notes on the
history and character of Wisconsin.

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SCOFIELD, Edward, governor of Wisconsin, was born in Clearfield,
Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, March 28th, 1842, and is the son of
Isaac Scofield, who was a native of Virginia of English descent, and of
Jane E. Collins Scofield, a native of Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestry.
Isaac Scofield, the father, was by occupation a farmer and lumberman,
and Edward during his boyhood assisted in these occupations, when not
attending the district school. After leaving the district school, he
was for a short time a student in Clearfield Academy. At the early age
of thirteen, however, he became an apprentice to the printer's trade.
This employment not only gave him a trade, but opened to him a vast
field of information, and thus supplied in a measure the deficiencies
in his school privileges. He served in this capacity for three years,
receiving only his board and clothing. At the end of his apprenticeship
he went to work on The Brookville (Pa.) Jeffersonian, at an annual
salary of $100 and board. Here he remained until April, 1861, when, in
response to the president's call for troops to put down the rebellion,
he enlisted, and became a private in the Eleventh regiment of the
Pennsylvania infantry. This regiment became a part of the Army of the
Potomac, and served all through its campaign. Young Scofield soon
showed that he was formed to command men and was rapidly promoted, "for
meritorious service," to lieutenant, and then to captain, the latter
for gallantry on the sanguinary field of Gettysburg. At the battle of
the Wilderness, May 5th 1864, he was captured by the enemy, and, during
ten months thereafter, he had an experience in twelve rebel prisons,
which came near ending in life. When released his term of service had
long before expired, and broken

[image: EDWARD SCOFIELD.]

in health, he returned home to find awaiting him there a commission as
major. Thus at the age of only twenty-three he had risen from private 
to major, and had had an experience of war such as the history of few
men recounts.

At the close of the war, when he had regained his strength, he joined a
party of civil engineers who were locating a railroad in the Allegheny
Valley. In this employment, as in all preceding it, he demonstrated his
ability to advance, and though he began as chairman he ended as transit
man. In the fall of 1868 he came to Chicago, and there formed the
acquaintance to Finn Hall, a lumberman of Oconto, Wisconsin, and
accepted the position of foreman in his Oconto mill. This may be said
to have been the beginning of his fortune. He filled the position of
foreman in that mill

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for eight years, and became master of every detail of the lumbering
business. He had saved his salary and when he abandoned his position in
the mill he had money with which to begin business for himself, which
he conducted in Oconto from 1876 to 1881, when he became connected with
the Marinette Saw Mill company as superintendent. This position he held
until 1890, when he formed a partnership with Geo. R. Arnold, under the
firm name of Edward Scofield & Co. Four years later the firm became the
Scofield & Arnold Lumber company, with Major Scofield as president,
Geo. I. Scofield as vice-president and Geo. R. Arnold as secretary and
treasurer. The company manufactures some thirty million feet of
finished lumber annually. The major is also financially interested in
the lumber firm of McElwer & Co.

He is a thorough Republican, but not a partisan in the offensive sense.
He was elected state senator from the First district in 1887. In 1894
he was the choice of many Republicans for governor, but the state
convention gave the nomination to Major Upham, and he was elected by a
large majority. In 1896, Governor Upham declined a renomination, and
Major Scofield was nominated, after a spirited contest in the
convention. He was elected by a vote of 264,814 to 169,253 for his
Democratic opponent, Mr. Silverthorn, and was inaugurated in January,
1897.

Governor Scofield was married, in 1870, to Miss Agnes Potter of Oconto.
Two sons--George I. and Paul D.--and a daughter, Julia, have been born
to them. The sons have reached man's estate, and are associated with
their father, but the daughter died in childhood.

Governor Scofield is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of
the military order of the Loyal Legion.

As a soldier and a civilian he has shown abilities of a high order,
both for command and for business, and a conscientious regard for the
discharge of every duty laid upon him in the various offices he has
held.

SPOONER, John Colt, whose career in the United States senate has been
alike creditable to himself and of exceptional service to the state,
was born in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county, Ind., on the 6th day of
January, 1843. His father, Philip Spooner, distinguished as a lawyer of
profound learning and a judge whose judicial ability and integrity were
recognized of all with whom he came in contact, was a native of New
Bedford and of English descent, his ancestors coming from the region of
Colchester, England, to Massachusetts in 1637. His mother's name was
Coit, and she was descended from a Welsh family that settled in New
England several generations ago, was distinguished, as most of those of
that nativity are, for intellectual ability and courage of thought and
action. The Spooners were actively identified with the early history of
the country, entering with zeal and intelligence into all the civil and
military struggles out of which came the fair fabric of civil and
religious liberty, theretofore unseen of men and scarcely embodied in
the visions of philosophers or poets. Philip Spooner, the great-
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and his brother were in the
fight at Lexington, and both rendered distinguished and most valuable
service in the revolutionary conflicts. The maternal great grandfather,
Samuel Coit, was also an officer in the revolutionary army, a man of
exceptional courage and prowess, who in the formation of the civil
institutions of New England wielded the influence which men of positive
nature always exert, especially in all formative periods. The Spooners
and Coits were also prominent in the war of 1812-1814, and in then
Mexican War. Benjamin Spooner, an uncle of John C., not only rendered
brilliant service in the Mexican war, but recruited the first regiment
that was mustered into the service from Indiana against the rebellion.
He was subsequently appointed United States marshal for the district of
Indiana, and had much to do with hunting out the Knights of the Golden
Circle and other secret treasonable organizations against the

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peace and integrity of the country. In this position he incurred no
little personal danger and rendered his country most valuable service.
His final commission as marshal was the last paper signed by President
Lincoln before his cowardly assassination.

Judge Spooner removed with his family to Madison, Wis., in June, 1859,
where he spent the remainder of his life in the practice of his
profession, establishing a reputation for legal acumen, which is
largely inherited by his distinguished son. John C. completed his
preparation for college in the schools of Madison, and entered the
University of Wisconsin in 1860 at the age of seventeen, becoming at
once a leader of his class and graduating with honor in 1864. Scarcely
had he closed his university course, when, with the blood of a long
line of patriotic ancestors tingling in his youthful veins, he enlisted
as a private in Company D, Fortieth regiment of Wisconsin infantry,
which was largely recruited from students and teachers of Wisconsin
colleges and other institutions of learning. At the end of a hundred
days' service he re-enlisted for three years, or "during the war," as
captain of Company A, Fiftieth regiment, and was detailed to Fort
Leavenworth and later to the far northwest to prevent outbreaks of the
Indians. This was, in many respects, a disagreeable service, without
the stimulus which the young men of the nation found in the marches and
battles for the preservation of the Union; but the duties of this
frontier service were performed with that energy and fidelity which has
characterized all his public life; and, when at the close of the war he
was mustered out, it was with the rank of brevet-major, and a record
for faithful, efficient discharge of duty of which many older soldier
might well be proud.

At the close of his military service he was appointed military and
private secretary of Gov. Fairchild, and, at the same time, he began to
study of law under the direction of his father, and was admitted to the
bar in 1867. The following year, so thorough had been his

[image: JOHN COIT SPOONER.]

studies, so comprehensive his knowledge of the principles of the law
and so mature his judgment, that he was appointed assistant attorney-
general to Charles R. Gill, and subsequently to S. S. Barlow; and so
faithfully and with such ability did he discharge the duties of this
position that he rapidly acquired a reputation as a lawyer which soon
became as wide as the state and gave prophecy of the distinction which
he has since attained in the profession.

In 1870 he removed to Hudson, Wis., where he engaged his legal
practice; speedily acquiring an extensive and varied business, and
enhancing his reputation as a profound, careful and resourceful lawyer.
In 1872, while still under thirty years of age, he was elected a member
of the lower house of the state legislature, and in this body he, at
once, took first rank as a legislator, discharging every duty of the
position with that fidelity, discrimination and wisdom which had
characterized him in every place to which he had been called. In 1882
he received appointment as regent of his alma matter, the state
university, a position

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for which he was admirably fitted, and in which he rendered the cause
of higher education signal and lasting service. This place he held for
three years, or until other and wider duties compelled its
relinquishment.

It was an evidence of the intellectual and professional growth of this
young man that, as the end of the term of the Hon. Angus Cameron in the
United States senate approached, March 4, 1885, the attention of many
was turned to Mr. Spooner as a fitting successor to Mr. Cameron in this
high and most honorable office. Other men of great ability were very
properly ambitious of the Republican nomination for this position, but
the contest narrowed to him and ex-Gov. Fairchild in the governor's
office. The contest was a friendly one, alike honorable to both, and 
for some time very much in doubt as to the result; but as the time for
nomination drew near it became apparent that the supporters of the
younger man were in the ascendant, and he received the nomination by a
handsome majority, and was duly elected January 28, 1885, receiving
seventy-six votes to forty-eight for his Democratic competitor. It is
greatly to the credit of the contestants for the Republican nomination
that the rivalry created no personal hostility, and no one more
heartily congratulated Mr. Spooner on his nomination and election than
Gov. Fairchild. This fact is worthy of mention as showing that while
Mr. Spooner is a man of positive views, of strong character and a
worthy ambition, he can take part in a personal or political contest
without personal rancor and without engendering personal animosities.
Mr. Spooner entered the senate in 1885, at the age of forty-two, served
the full term of six years, and was succeeded by Wm. F. Vilas, the
Democrats having obtained control of the legislature of 1891.

In 1892 Senator Spooner received the Republican nomination for
governor, and though he greatly reduced the Democratic majority of
1890, he was defeated.

Though one of the youngest men who ever attained a seat in the senate,
he at once, though without unduly obtruding himself, attracted the
attention of his colleagues and that of the whole country by the
industry, intelligence and wisdom which he displayed in the discharge of
his varied and responsible duties; and ere his term was half gone he had
won for himself a position in debate and in the higher planes of
legislation second to that of few, if any, in that body. His committee
positions showed the estimation in which he was held by his fellow
senators--he was chairman of the committee on claims and survey and a
member of the judiciary committee and the committee on the District of
Columbia; and some of the most effective and valuable work ever done on
those committees was formulated and accomplished by his direct personal
effort. But it was not alone in the committee room that his energies
were expended; he was ever ready in the discussion of questions of great
national importance, and few of his compeers expressed their views with
more clearness and force, or brought to the consideration of those
questions a greater wealth of learning or a juster view of the proper
scope of legislation. Alive to the importance of all truly national
questions, he was not forgetful of the immediate interest of his own
state; and it is no disparagement to those who preceded or followed him
in the delegation from Wisconsin, to say that none exceeded and few
equaled him in the efficiency with which he guarded the local interests
of his constituents, and none approached nearer to the ideal
representative of a great and truly free people.

Genial and bright in social intercourse, of broad views and lofty
ideals, honorable and pure in all the relations of life, eloquent and
persuasive in speech, it is not surprising that at the close of his
term his associates in the senate gave him the very unusual compliment
of a parting reception, in which warm tributes to his personal worth
and his official ability were uttered by senators of whose sincerity
and respect there could be no question.

As the term of Senator Vilas drew toward

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its close, public attention was drawn to the question as to who should
be his successor, and with scarcely a dissenting voice the answer was 
"John C. Spooner." Although the Republicans had a large majority in the
legislature, he received every vote in the Republican caucus and was
again elected United States senator for six years from March 4th, 1897.
He has been assigned to duty on the committees on relations with
Canada, judiciary, privileges and elections, and rules.

Mr. Spooner was married on the 10th of September, 1868, to Miss Annie
E. Main of Madison, a lady of culture and possessing great musical
talent. They have had four sons, one of whom, John C., Jr., died in
1881, at the of age of six years. The eldest, Charles Philip, born in
1869, is a graduate of Princeton University and the law school of the
University of Wisconsin, and is a member of his father's law firm.
Willet Main, born in 1873, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin
in both the literary and law departments. Philip L., a young man of
seventeen years, is a very promising student.

BARNEY, Samuel Stebbins, member of congress from the Fifth district and
a resident of West Bend, was born in Hartford, Washington county, Wis.,
January 31st, 1846. His father, John Barney, was a farmer by
occupation, who came to Waukesha county, Wisconsin, from Jefferson
county, New York, in 1842, and in 1845 settled on a farm in Washington
county, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a native of
Berkshire county, Mass., and his father was a soldier in the
Revolutionary army. S. S. Barney's mother, Adeline Knox, was a native
of Vermont, and a not very distant relative of the celebrated Scotch
preacher, John Knox.

Mr. Barney was educated in the common schools and at Lombard
University, Galesburg, Ill., after which he taught school at Hartford
during the years 1869, 1870 and 1871, when he began the study of law in
the

[image: SAMUEL STEBBINS BARNEY.]

office of the late L. F. Frisby, formerly attorney-general of
Wisconsin. He was admitted to the bar in 1872, began practice in West
Bend, and has continued it there to the present time. He was elected
superintendent of schools of Washington county in 1875, and held the
office for four years from the first of January, 1876. He edited The
Washington County Republican, now The Hartford Press, at West Bend,
during the years 1872 and 1873. It was about this time that he
attracted public attention outside of his county by an exceedingly able
speech in the Republican state convention at Madison; and when the
Republicans, in 1884, sought a candidate for congress in the old Fifth
district, with whom they might hope to overcome the personal popularity
of Gen. Bragg and the large Democratic majority in the district, they
nominated Mr. Barney. The odds against him, however, were too great to
be overcome, and he was defeated, although he made a gallant fight and
polled the full strength of his party in the district. In the same year
he was a delegate to the Republican national convention in Chicago,
which nominated James G. Blaine for

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president. In 1894 he was again the Republican candidate for congress,
and was successful, receiving 18,681 votes to 16,851 for the Democratic
and Populist candidates, or a majority over both of 1,830, and a
plurality of 5,624. In 1896 he was a candidate for re-election and
received 26,613 votes to 17,049, the combined vote of the Democratic
and Socialist-Labor candidates--or a majority of 9,564, and a plurality
of 10,121.

As may be inferred from what has already been said, Mr. Barney has
always been a Republican, not "for revenue" or for honors, for he was,
for years, in a district where his party was in a hopeless minority;
but for principle's sake. He should, therefore, be credited with
holding a political faith in which he profoundly believes. He is not a
member of any clubs or of any church.

Mr. Barney was married, in 1876, to Ellen McHenry of West Bend. They
have four children, namely: Sara, John, Sybil and Marian.

Mr. Barney's career in congress has been that of a close and
intelligent observer of legislation, a ready and effective debater, and
one who is alive to the interests of his immediate constituents, and to
the general welfare of the whole country.

OTJEN, Theobald, is the youngest son of John C. Otjen, who emigrated to 
this country when but eighteen years old, settling in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
then a place of but fifteen hundred inhabitants. He married Dorothea 
Schriner, who came from Germany when a girl, and subsequently removed to 
West China, St. Claire county, Michigan, where he entered upon a 
prosperous career as a farmer. Here Theobald was born on the 27th of 
October, 1851, and here, at the age of six years, he experienced the 
loss of his mother, which, as in so many cases, was the premature 
beginning of a life of more or less privation and hardship. He found a 
home in the family of an uncle, a farmer, and there he was at once made 
acquainted with hard work. This, however, he regards as a fortunate 
circumstance, since it resulted, ultimately, in his abandonment of the 
life of a farmer, and his striking out, at the age of twelve years, in 
search of a life presenting more opportunities and larger possibilities. 
With that modest determination which has characterized all his 
subsequent career, he set out, at the age of twelve years, for Marine 
City, Michigan, where his sister, Mrs. Wening, resided at the time. Here 
the youthful adventurer, by his manliness and laudable ambition, 
attracted the notice of Miss Ward, then the owner of the Marine City 
academy, and familiarly known by her pupils and friends as "Aunt 
Emily's--the sister of Captain E. B. Ward, noted for his many business 
enterprises, and especially as the founder of the great iron works at 
Wyandotte, Milwaukee and Chicago. Into the family of this discriminating 
and philanthropic woman, young Otjen was take, and in her he found a 
steadfast friend and a wise counselor--one who to a large extent 
supplied the place of the mother he had lost. Not long afterward Miss 
Ward removed to Detroit, to take the position of housekeeper for her 
brother, and here Theobald, who had accompanied Miss Ward, made the 
acquaintance of the stirring man of business, and this acquaintance was 
not without its influence upon the character of the boy.

His education was principally acquired at the Marine City academy and
P. M. Patterson's private school in Detroit. In the summer of 1869 he
came to Milwaukee, and worked for three months in the rolling mills.
Returning to Detroit he spent the winter and the following summer
there, but came again to Milwaukee in the fall of 1870, taking the
position of yard foreman at the mills, which he retained for two years.
Returning again to Detroit in the fall of 1872, he attended school in
that city until the fall of 1873, when he entered the law department of
Michigan university, taking at the same time special studies in other
departments. He was graduated in law in 1875, and at once

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admitted to the Michigan bar, and practiced law in the city of Detroit 
until 1882, when he removed to Milwaukee, and entering the law and real 
estate business with his brother, C. S. Otjen, he devoted himself to the 
practice of his profession with that industry and conscientious regard 
for duty which has always been one of his leading characteristics. Since 
his removal to Milwaukee he has been thoroughly identified with the 
interests of the city, holding the position of attorney for the village 
of Bay View before it was annexed to the city, for three years, and 
represented it in the council for three successive terms, after it 
became the Seventeenth ward. In this office he was always active in the 
promotion of every measure calculated to benefit and improve the city, 
holding important committee positions, and never failing faithfully to 
perform all the duties falling to him. He was largely instrumental in 
securing the passage of the city park bill, by which Milwaukee has come 
into possession of a park system which in time will be one of the most 
beautiful and notable in the whole country. Whether in official place or 
not, every measure to promote the prosperity of the city has found in 
him and ardent and wise supporter; and so thoroughly identified has he 
become with that hive of industry, Bay View mills, that he has the 
unbounded confidence and respect of his constituents, as is shown by the 
very large vote which he has always received when he has been a nominee 
for any office. He has never failed to secure the esteem of all his 
official associates, irrespective of party, and his usefulness as a 
representative of the people is everywhere acknowledged.

He has always been identified with the Republican party, and an earnest
and intelligent advocate of its policy of fostering the industries of
the country. Two years ago, after a spirited but good-natured contest
in the convention, he was nominated as the Republican candidate for
congress in the Fourth (Milwaukee) district, and he was elected by a
plurality of 5,622, although the district had for some years before
been represented by a Democrat.

[image: THEOBALD OTJEN.]

Upon taking his seat in the house he was appointed to the committee on
revision of laws and war claims. So satisfactory was his service that
he was renominated, with little opposition, for a seat in the Fifty-
fifth congress and elected by a plurality of 4,467.

Mr. Otjen has been a member of the Republican State Central committee,
a member and officer of many Republican clubs, and has rendered his
party very efficient service therein. He is also a member of Ivanhoe
Commandery of Milwaukee, the Iroquois club and the Royal Arcanum. He
has been identified with the Methodist Episcopal church both of Detroit
and Milwaukee.

In 1879 Mr. Otjen was married to Miss Louisa E. Heames, daughter of
Henry Heames of Detroit, by whom he has four children, Henry Heames,
Grace V., Fannie H., and Christian J. Otjen. He has three brothers,
John C., residing near Toledo, Ohio; Christian C., superintendent of
the Illinois Steel company's works at Milwaukee, and Rev. William
Otjen, a Methodist clergyman, and two sisters, Mrs, Wening at the old
homestead in Michigan, and Mrs, Richle of Milwaukee.

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[image: MICHAEL GRIFFIN.]

GRIFFIN, Michael members of congress from the Seventh district of
Wisconsin, resides at Eau Claire, and was born in County Clare,
Ireland, September 9, 1842. Five years thereafter his parents
immigrated to America, taking up their residence in Canada. Four years
later, or in 1851, they moved to Hudson, Summit county, Ohio, where the
boy gained, in the common school, the rudiments of his education. In
1856 his parents moved to Newport, Sauk county, Wisconsin, where he
continued his studies in the district school. He had by this time
become imbued with the principles underlying the institutions of the
country, and as there was much talk of rebellion and possible war, he
determined that if war should come he would tender his services to the
government of his adopted country, and show his loyalty thereto and his
appreciation of the blessings of free institutions. When war actually
came, young Griffin, then but nineteen years of age, gave himself to
his country, enlisting on the IIth of September, 1861, in Company E of
the Twelfth Wisconsin volunteer infantry. The company mustered into the
service November 5th, 1861, and young Griffin was at once made sergeant. 
The regiment left the state January 11th, 1862, and was ordered to Fort 
Leavenworth, thence to Fort Scott, thence to Fort Riley, whence it was 
ordered back to Fort Leavenworth. From this post it descended the 
Missouri and the Mississippi to Columbus, and thence passed by rail to 
Corinth, where it joined Grant's army. After marching and counter-
marching through Mississippi, the army sat down before Vicksburg; and 
when that stronghold was captured, and the Mississippi campaign was 
practically completed, the regiment re-enlisted, and, crossing over the 
mountains, joined General Sherman's army before Atlanta and participated 
in all the principal engagements of that famous campaign. At Bald Hill, 
Georgia, on the 21st of July, 1864, young Griffin was wounded in a 
charge upon the enemy's works, receiving a small shot in the face, which 
passed downward into his jaw. But, though stunned for the time, he, like 
the true soldier that he was, forgot his wound for the time being in the 
rejoicing of his comrades over the victory that was won. While in the 
hospital, though suffering great pain, he made himself useful in 
assisting the surgeons, and waiting upon those whose wounds made them 
helpless. Hearing the noise of battle the next day, though suffering 
from his wound, he left the hospital for the front, took his place in 
his regiment, and bore his part in the sanguinary struggle. Having left 
without ceremony, and failing to answer at hospital roll call, he was 
reported as a deserter. His colonel, hearing of this report, said that 
he wished all the soldiers in the hospital would "desert" in all manner 
that Sergeant Griffin did. Following the Atlanta campaign came the march 
to the sea, in which he also participated.

February 11th, 1865, he was commissioned second lieutenant, and on July
5th following he received a commission as first lieutenant: but as the
war was now practically closed, he did not muster as first lieutenant,
to which

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he had been promoted, but was mustered out of service with his regiment
on the 16th of the same month. Returning to his home at Newport,
Wisconsin, he decided to become a lawyer, and in the fall of that year
he began the study of law in the office of Hon. Jonathan Bowman of
Kilbourn City, and was admitted to the bar, in Portage, May 19th, 1868,
entering at once upon the practice of his profession in Kilbourn City.
While waiting for the coming of clients, as most young lawyers are
compelled to do, he acted as cashier of the Bank of Kilbourn from 1871
to 1876, and filled the offices of town clerk and member of the county
board of supervisors. Comparatively small and unimportant as were these
offices, the fact that they were conferred upon him was the best
evidence that he had the entire confidence of his fellow citizens, and
that they saw in him the stuff of which large men are made.

He was elected to the lower house of the legislature from Columbia
county in 1875, and though but thirty-three years of age, he was
appointed chairman of the judiciary committee, the most important of
the committees of that body. He was also member of the committee on
privileges and elections, and of the special joint committee to
investigate the administrations of Governors Washburn and Taylor.

At the close of 1876 he moved to Eau Claire, where he has since
resided, and where he has been actively engaged in the practice of law.
He held the office of city attorney of Eau Claire from 1878 to 1880,
inclusive. In 1879 he was elected to the state senate from the then
Thirteenth senatorial district, comprising the countries of Dunn, Eau
Claire and Pierce, and was a member of the judiciary committee and the
committee on federal relations. Here, as in the house, he showed
himself a wise and capable legislator, reflecting credit upon his
constituents and doing the state most valuable service.

In 1889 Gov. Hoard appointed him quartermaster-general, with the rank of 
brigadier-general; and, in this position, his knowledge of military 
affairs was of especial value in the purchase of land, the construction 
of buildings and the establishing of the militia instructional post of 
Camp Douglas. He has long been an active, intelligent and deeply 
interested member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has held almost 
every office of importance in the organization up to that of department 
commander, to which he was elected in 1887, serving for one year. He is 
also a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion. He is a member 
of the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias and Royal Arcanum.

He has always been an active member of the Republican party, honestly
and intelligently laboring for the success of its candidates and the
adoption of its principles and policy; but he has not been an office-
seeker, though frequently urged to accept nomination to office. Upon
the death of Hon. Geo. B. Shaw, in 1894, Gen. Griffin accepted the
Republican nomination as his successor in congress, and was elected by
a large majority. In the fall of 1896 he was renominated without
opposition and elected by a plurality of 12,296. As a congressman he
has taken high rank, and in his second term he will undoubtedly prove
himself one of the most intelligent and useful of the members of that
body. Devoted to his profession, he has also shown himself to be a
successful man of business, being an officer of several large and
prosperous manufacturing and other, firms. Professionally, Gen.
Griffin's practice is confined, for the most part, to civil law--he has
been engaged in much of the important litigation in the northwestern
part of the state, and has a standing at the bar scarcely inferior to
that of any of his competitors. He is quick in perception, readily sees
the strong points as well as the weak ones of those with whom he is
called to contend, and is equally quick in action, and tenacious of a
position when one taken. Those who saw him as presiding officer of

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the turbulent Republican convention in Milwaukee, in August, 1896, can
best judge of his mental characteristics, moral courage and executive
force. He held the contending factions firmly to the legitimate work of
the convention, yet his fairness was acknowledged by all, and
thoroughly good feeling was restored at the end.

Gen Griffin was married on the 6th of September, 1871, at Kilbourn
City, to Miss Emma I. Daniels. They have had but one child, Mabel M.,
who died when but eleven months of age.

DAVIDSON, James Henry, member of congress from the Sixth district of
Wisconsin, is a resident of Oshkosh and a lawyer by profession. He is
the son of James Davidson, a native of the Highlands of Scotland, where
he was born in 1812. He came to this country with his parents in 1824,
and settled in Delaware county, New York. He was by occupation a farmer
and lumberman.

J. H. Davidson's mother was Ann Johnson, who was born at Rheinbeck on
the Hudson in 1814. The ancestors on the father's side were Scotch
Highlanders and poor, but with plenty of pluck, fearing nothing but
dishonor. The maternal ancestors were prominent in the early history of
the country, Mrs. Davidson's grandfather having been a soldier in the
Revolutionary army, and a relative of hers having but one of the three
men who intercepted May Andre at Tarrytown, on the 22nd of July, and
whom nothing could tempt from their

Mr. Davidson was born on the 18th of June, 1858, in Colchester,
Delaware county, New York. He attended the country school in the
district where his parents resided, the last few years of his
attendance being confined to the winter term of three months; the
remainder of the year young Davidson spent in work upon the farm, or in
lumbering. With a passion for an education, he entered Walton (New
York) Academy, and attended the spring and fall terms of that 
institution for three years, and did the janitor work of the institution 
in payment for his tuition. The winter of each of those years he taught 
a district school, and thus secured the money to pay for his board and 
clothes while a student. His health failing he was obliged to leave the 
academy at the end of three years. He then began the study of law in the 
office of Fancher & Sewell of Walton, New York. In September, 1882, he 
came to Wisconsin, and was employed for one year as principal of the 
school at Princeton, Green Lake county, at the end of which he returned 
to New York, and entered the Albany law school, from which institution 
he graduated in 1884, holding the honorary position of president of the 
class.

Mr. Davidson's first earnings were from teaching in the public schools
of New York. A friend, who knew of his struggles for the acquirement of
a profession, offered to lend him the money to pay the expenses of his
course in the law school, telling him than he could repay it when he
got it; that he wanted no note or security, saying that he knew Mr.
Davidson would repay the money if he lived. He came again to Wisconsin
in 1884, and for three years was employed as book-keeper and buyer for
Messrs. Chittenden & Morse, produce dealers at Princeton. This service
was rendered by him that he might repay the money borrowed for his
legal education, before attempting to establish himself in the law. At
length the debt was paid, and in 1887 he opened an office in Princeton
for the practice of his profession. His integrity and courteous manner
as a grain dealer made him many friends among the farmers of Green Lake
and Marquette counties, and this aided him in the law business. He 
continued in Princeton until 1892, securing a profitable business, and
influence both as a lawyer and as a man; but he wished a larger field,
and in January, 1892, he removed to Oshkosh, and became the third
member of the firm of Thompson., Harshaw & Davidson. This partnership
continued for three years, when

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he withdrawn, and entered upon practice alone. In May, 1895, he was
appointed city attorney for Oshkosh for a term of two years. January
1st, 1896, he formed a partnership with R. W. Wilde, formerly a student
of the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor,
under the firm name of Davidson & Wilde, which partnership still
continues.

Mr. Davidson's political record is that of a conscientious Republican,
thoroughly believing in the principles of the party, and using all
proper means for securing its ascendancy. He was elected district
attorney of Green Lake county in 1888; and, in 1890, he was made
chairman of the committee of the Sixth congressional district of
Wisconsin, which position he held continuously for six years. In the
fall of 1896 he was nominated by the Republican congressional
convention for the Sixth district for congress and was elected by a
very large majority, receiving 26,649 against 18,944 votes for W. F.
Gruenewald, Democrat, and 626 for James S. Thompson, Prohibitionist.

Mr. Davidson is a member of Oshkosh Lodge, No. 27, F. & A. M.; Oshkosh
Lodge, No. 192, B. P. O. E., and Oshkosh Lodge, No. 25, K. P.

He was married October 8th, 1889, to Niva T. Wilde, daughter of F. A.
Wilde, now of Milwaukee. They have two sons, Kenneth Wilde and James
Ferdinand.

Personally Mr. Davidson is a gentleman of modest demeanor, courteous to
all, the friend of those needing friendship and worthy of it; yet he is
a man of pronounced views on all public questions, and does not
hesitate to express them forcibly when the occasion calls for such
expression. As a lawyer he is able and true to clients, but will not
stoop to questionable means to win a case. He has a high standing as a
thorough lawyer, an able advocate, and has a record of never having
lost a case before the supreme court, where he has appeared many times.
He is an eloquent and very pleasing speaker, and is one

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of the promising men in the Wisconsin delegation in congress.

SAUERHERING, Edward, member of the national house of representatives
from the Second district, was born on the 24th of June, 1864, in
Mayville, Dodge county, Wis., which has always been his home with the
exception of two years. His father is R. Saeurhering, a druggist of
Mayville, and his mother was Henrietta Hartwig before marriage. Edward
was educated in the public and high schools of his native village, and,
at the age of sixteen years, entered his father's store, where he
served a regular apprenticeship in the drug business. After this he
entered the Chicago College of Pharmacy, where he applied himself with
energy and diligence to the study of the principles of the
pharmaceutical profession, and graduated with honors in the class of
1885. Immediately after graduation, he entered the drug business in
Chicago, remaining there three years, and then returned to Mayville,
where he carries on a large and prosperous business in the same line.

Mr. Sauerhering has always been a Republican,

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[image: EDWARD SAUERHERING.]

and though living in a county which was formerly considered the
stronghold of the Democracy of Wisconsin, he adhered tenaciously to his
political faith, and was the head of the Republican organization of
Dodge county, being chosen chairman of the committee in 1892. In that
year he was nominated for the legislative assembly, but was defeated,
although, owing to his thorough organization of his party in that
county, a Republican county judge was elected, the first Republican
county official ever elected in its history. His personal popularity
was demonstrated years ago by his having been twice elected alderman of
Mayville. In 1894 he received the Republican nomination for congress in
that district; and, although there had been a Democratic plurality of
some five thousand at the previous election, he accepted the
nomination, and it is characteristic of the man's indomitable energy
and perseverance that he set to work just as if he expected to win the
race. The district was thoroughly canvassed, and his manner so won upon
the people, that when the votes were counted it was found that the
large plurality against his party was entirely wiped out, and he was 
elected by 265 votes. In 1896 he was renominated, although he did not 
especially desire it; and was re-elected, receiving 24,011 votes against 
18,505 for his Democratic and Prohibition opponents. This result was due 
in no small measure to his personal popularity and to his course in 
congress. His work for the filled cheese bill, and his earnest speech in 
its support made him many friends among the dairymen, of whom there are 
many in his district. He was also a strong advocate of sound money, and 
this gave him many votes among his sturdy German-American constituents. 
Not brilliant, but possessing a large amount of good practical sense, 
quick to comprehend the scope of proposed measures, and always alert in 
the discharge of his official duties, he exerts a larger influence than 
many more effective speakers. In the Fifty-fourth congress he introduced 
a bill to create a state trade mark, and it is now pending.

He is a member of "Turn-Verein Eintracht" of Mayville, and was
president of it from 1889 to 1896. He is also a member of the Masonic
order, Vesper Lodge, Mayville.

Mr. Sauerhering was married, in 1889, to Miss Eugenia Langenbach of
Mayville. Two children, Charles and Adolph, have been born to them.

MINOR, Edward S., representative in congress from the Eighth district
of Wisconsin, resides in Sturgeon Bay. His father, Martin Minor, as
ship calker, and his mother was Abigail J. St. Ores. His paternal
ancestors are traceable back to the leading of the Pilgrims; and the
Minors have held high positions in various states, notably Connecticut,
New York, Virginia and Louisiana.

Edward S. Minor was born in Jefferson county, New York, in 1840, and
received a good common school and academic education in Wisconsin, to
which he came with his parents in 1845. The family first settled in the
town of Greenfield, Milwaukee county, subsequently living in the city
of Milwaukee

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for two years, whence they removed to a farm in Sheboygan county. In
1857 he went to Door county, and, in 1861, enlisted in Company G,
Second Wisconsin Volunteer Calvary, and participated in all the raids,
expeditions, engagements and battles in which that regiment took part
during the war. He was promoted during his service to corporal, to
sergeant, to second lieutenant, to first lieutenant, and was holding
the last named rank when mustered out with his regiment in December,
1865. Upon his return home after the war he engaged in mercantile
business in Door county, and continued in it until the spring of 1884,
when he was appointed superintendent of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan ship canal. This position he held for seven years. He holds a
license as a master of steam vessels, and for about ten years was
interested in marine property, but after his election to congress, and
before entering on his duties as a representative, he disposed of all
his marine interests.

Mr. Minor has long been a very active Republican in politics, and has
held numerous local offices, among which is that of mayor of Sturgeon
Bay. He was elected to the assembly of Wisconsin in 1878, and re-
elected in 1880 and 1881. He was elected to the state senate in 1883
and in 1885, and was president pro tempore of that body during the last
session. He was also member of the Wisconsin fish commission for four
years. He was elected to the Fifty-fourth congress from the Eighth
district, receiving 19,902 votes, against 15,522 for Lyman E. Barnes,
Democrat, 330 for A. J. Larrabee, People's party, and 949 for John
Faville, Prohibition. He was re-elected to the Fifty-fifth congress,
receiving 26,471 votes, against 16,845 for Geo. W. Cate, Democrat, and
580 for John W. Evans, Prohibitionist.

In 1867 he was married to Tillie E. Graham, and six children have been
born to them, namely: Stanton, Byron, Sybil, Maud, Ula and Ethel.

As a member of congress, Mr. Minor has

[image: EDWARD S. MINOR.]

shown that ability, energy and good judgment in the performance of his
official duties which have always characterized him in all the places
of responsibility to which he has been assigned. In the first session
of the Fifty-fourth congress he became interested in a measure relating
to the coast pilots. He dissented from the majority report of the
committee on merchant marine and fisheries, and the contest was carried
to the floor of the house, where Mr. Minor made a vigorous and
exhaustive speech against the bill, and the measure was discussed for
two days, when it was defeated by a vote of more than two to one. So
pleased were the coast pilots with Mr. Minor's vigorous and effective
action in their behalf that, at the meeting of their association in
Charleston, South Carolina, soon after, they adopted and sent him
resolutions expressing most hearty appreciation of his labors and
giving him the credit for the defeat of the bill. He has been
especially active in relation to other measures of various kinds, and
it may be truly said that his action has always been found to be on the
right side and in the interest of his constituents.

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COOPER, Henry Allen, member of congress from the First district of this
state, is a native of Walworth county, Wisconsin, the son of a
physician. He attended the district school of the neighborhood, and
afterward entered the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois,
where he was graduated in 1873. Immediately after graduation from the
university, he entered the Union College of Law, in Chicago, from which
he received his diploma in 1875. Mr. Cooper resided in Chicago for six
years after graduating from the college of law, and then took up his
residence in Burlington, Wisconsin, and began the practice of law. In
1880 he was elected district attorney of Racine county, and became a
resident of Racine. He was re-elected, without opposition, in 1882, and
again in 1884. In the latter year he was chosen delegate to the
Republican national convention at Chicago, and in 1886 was elected to
the state senate. In 1892, the Republicans of the First district
nominated and elected him to congress. So faithful and satisfactory had
been his record in his first term that he was renominated in 1894, and
elected to the Fifty-fourth congress by a majority of 5,195 over his 
three opponents. In 1896 he was again renominated without opposition, 
and was elected by a plurality of 13,512 over his Democratic competitor, 
and by a majority over all other candidates of 3,428.

Mr. Cooper resides in Racine and is a member of the law firm of Cooper,
Simmons, Nelson & Walker of that city.

BABCOCK, Joseph Weeks, a resident of Necedah, and representative in
congress from the Third congressional district, was born in Swanton,
Vt., March 6th, 1850, a descendant of the Pilgrims and inheritor of
many of their sturdy characteristics. His father was Ebenezer Wright
Babcock, and his mother Mahala Weeks, daughter of Hon. Joseph Weeks,
who was a representative from new Hampshire in the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth congresses.

J. W. Babcock, who was the youngest of a family of four children,
accompanied his parents on their removal to Iowa, in 1855, and there,
on a farm in Butler county, he resided until 1861. He attended the
local district school, acquiring a knowledge of the ordinary English
branches, and upon the family's removal to Cedar Falls, he continued
his studies in the public schools of that place, supplementing the
instruction there received with a brief course in the neighboring
college of Mount Vernon. At the expiration of his school days he
entered the employ of his father, who owned and operated a lumber yard
at Cedar Falls. When this business was later sold to Weston, Burch &
Co. of Dubuque, young Babcock entered their service in a subordinate
capacity. In May, 1872, he removed to Dubuque, where, for the ensuing
six years, he was employed by the firm of Ingram, Kennedy & Day, now
the Standard Lumber company. In 1878 he purchased an interest in the
business of the firm of Weston, Burch & Co., his former employers, and
the firm name of Burch, Babcock & Co. was

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then assumed. In 1881 Messrs. Burch and Babcock purchased a controlling
interest in the old firm of T. Weston & Co. of Necedah, Wisconsin,
thereupon incorporating the business as the Necedah Lumber company, of
which Mr. Babcock was elected, and still continues, secretary. The log
cut of the company averages from twenty to twenty-five million feet per
annum, and the corporation is known and recognized as one of the strong
lumber concerns of the northwest. Mr. Burch, whose home is in Dubuque,
Iowa, left the details of the active management of the business to Mr.
Babcock, to whose indomitable industry and perseverance is largely due
the success of the great enterprise. Cautious and conservative, he, at
the same time, possesses energy and promptness of resolution, a
sagacity and patience which enable him to master the details of
business; and, added to these characteristics, his conduct in all
things is governed by high moral principle. With those in his employ he
has ever maintained a lively sympathy, and an unmistakable regard for
their feelings and rights. That this is appreciated by his employees is
evidenced by the fact that during his entire business career he has
never had to encounter a strike among his workmen, although having
hundreds of men in his employ. Among those concerned in the great
lumber industry of the northwest, he was the pioneer in insisting that
all employees should be paid in cash, and that the wages of those in his
service should be as high as those paid by any one else for similar
labor.

Activity in public affairs was inevitable in a man of such
characteristics, and not long after he took up his abode in Necedah, he
was elected president of the village. In 1888 he was elected to the
Wisconsin legislative assembly, in which he served as chairman of the
committee on incorporations; and, in 1890, he was re-elected, at a time
when very few of the Republican candidates were successful in the
state. As a member of the legislature his strong personality made
itself felt by all with whom he came in contact, and he was ever

[image: JOSEPH WEEKS BABCOCK.]

ready to use his influence in the support of those measures which
seemed to him designed for the public good. He was instrumental in
securing the passage of a number of laws which have had a lasting and
most beneficial effect upon the prosperity of the state.

In 1892 Mr. Babcock was nominated by the Republicans of the Third
congressional district of this state, comprising the counties of Adams,
Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Juneau, Richland, Sauk and Vernon, as their
candidate for congress. He defeated the Democratic opponent by a
majority of three thousand votes. He became a member of the Fifty-third
congress, in which he served on the committee on the District of
Columbia. In 1894 he was renominated for congress and again elected--
this time by a majority of nearly eight thousand over the candidate of
the Democrats and Populists. In the Fifty-fourth congress Mr. Babcock
was appointed chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia, a
position in which he gives eminent satisfaction. In 1896 he was re-
elected by a majority of 11,523 over the fusion candidate. Though
comparatively a young man, and though his life

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prior to his entrance into congress had been almost wholly devoted to
business affairs, he readily grasped the duties of legislator and
almost immediately took an influential position in the house. While a
member of the Fifty-third congress he was chosen vice-chairman of the
national Republican congressional committee, and upon the resignation
from congress of Hon. John A. Caldwell of Cincinnati, who was chairman
of that committee, Mr. Babcock became his successor. For this position
he was peculiarly fitted, by reason of his rare executive ability and
systematic business habits, which he carried with him into politics, as
was shown by the able manner in which he conducted the campaign of
1894, and again of 1896. In February, 1896, he was unanimously re-
elected to the chairmanship of the committee.

In congress Mr. Babcock is both popular and successful. His
constituents and those who call upon him regarding matters pertaining
to public business find him accessible at all times, and ready to hear
them and if possible give them the required aid. A thorough man of
affairs, he is one of those clear-headed, constructive and able
business managers whose persistent industry, comprehensive grasp of
details and power to marshall them for practical results, make him
invaluable in committee, where legislation is perfected and all
important measures are prepared.

In the month of November, 1867, Mr. Babcock was married to Miss Mary A.
Finch of Lyons, Iowa. They have one son, Charles Ebenezer, born in
1868, who is a graduate of the law school of the University of
Michigan, and who is now in the office of the Necedah Lumber company.
An adopted daughter, Amelia M., is now the wife of S. H. Reed of
Necedah. The family are attendants of the Congregational church.

Mr. Babcock is one of that class of men who form the conservative
element of society. He is the architect of his own fortunes; every
advancing step therein has been the result of foresight, integrity and
earnest labor.

GOODLAND, John, a resident of Appleton, and judge of the Tenth judicial
circuit, is the son of William Goodland, a merchant who rose from
poverty in England and acquired a competency. He was a man of great
force of character, and, although self-educated, was well-read, and
possessed of wide information. Judge Goodland's mother, whose maiden
name was Abigail Sharman, was the daughter of a tenant farmer in fair
circumstances. Both sprang for the common people of England. William
Goodland held various local offices, such as churchwarden, member of
the governing body of the town, known as "board of health," etc. Both
parents are buried in Taunton, England, where a beautiful memorial
window has been placed in St. James' parish church to their memory.

Judge Goodland was born in Taunton, Somersetshire, England, August
10th, 1831. He received an academic education, which was completed at
Wellington Academy. After receiving his education, he served a three
years' apprenticeship to a wooden draper, upon the completion of which
he sailed for America, landing in New York City in 1849. Proceeding at
once to Oneida county, N. Y., he was variously employed in that county
and also in Brockport and Rochester until 1854, when he came to Sharon,
Walworth county, Wis., where he engaged in school teaching, clerking in
a store and various other labors. He became greatly interested in the
debating societies which then flourished in that locality, and took
part in many warm discussions in the school houses in the vicinity. In 
this way he not only acquired much information, but developed facility
and ability as a public speaker. In 1860 he made a visit to England,
and, on his return, engaged in the grocery business at Sharon Station.
While residing there he held various local offices such as justice of
the peace, town clerk and town treasurer. In 1864 his store was burned;
and, closing up that business, he entered the employment of the Chicago
& Northwestern Railway company in Chicago, where he remained

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until 1867, when he went to Appleton as local agent of the company, and
served in that capacity for seven years. Resigning his position with
the railroad company, he went into the insurance business, at the same
time giving some attention to the study of law. In 1877 he was admitted
to the bar; and, later, he was admitted to practice in the supreme
court of the state and in the United States district and circuit
courts. He was elected district attorney of Outagamie county in 1888,
and re-elected for a second term of two years. He was a non-partisan
candidate for circuit judge in 1885, but was defeated by Geo. H. Myers.
He was again a candidate, both on a call and as the Democratic nominee,
in 1891, and was elected, defeating Geo. H. Myers and E. J. Goodrick.
In 1897 he was re-elected without opposition. Judge Myers died in
August, 1891, some four months before the expiration of his term, and
Judge Goodland was appointed, by Gov. Peck, to fill the vacancy, he
having been elected the April previous for the succeeding full term.

Judge Goodland was an abolitionist before the war and was a Republican
from the organization of the party until 1868, having cast his first
vote for John C. Fremont. In 1872, he joined the Democratic party,
having always been a free-trader. In 1879 he was clerk of the judiciary
committee of the assembly, but since assuming the judgeship he
considers himself out of politics as far as a man of strong convictions
can be.

He is a member of the Masonic maternity, being a master Mason and
member of the Waverly Lodge of Appleton, having served as master of
that lodge. He was brought up in the Church of England, but is not a
member of any religious organization.

On September 4th, 1850, Judge Goodland was married to Caroline M. Clark
of Sangerfield, Oneida county, N. Y. She was of English parentage, and
died at Appleton, October 26th, 1893, at the age of sixty. They were
both very young when married--in fact were included in the census as
school children after

[image: JOHN GOODLAND.]

their marriage. They have had nine children, seven of whom are living--
four sons and three daughters.

BAILEY, William F., judge of the Seventeenth judicial circuit, and a
resident of Eau Claire, is a native of Carmel, Putnam county, N. Y.,
and was born on the 20th of June, 1842. His father, Benjamin Bailey,
was a lawyer by profession and several times a member of the New York
legislature. He was the Democratic candidate for speaker when Robinson,
the know-nothing candidate, was elected after a six weeks' contest.

William F. Bailey was educated in the Claverack Academy in Columbia
county, New York, and, soon after leaving school, enlisted, May, 1861,
in Company D, Thirty-eighth New York volunteer infantry. In the fall of
1861 he was appointed captain of Company K, Ninety-fifth New York
volunteers. He participated in the battles of Bull Run, Rappahannock,
Sulphur Springs, Gainesville, Manassas, second battle of Bull Run and
Chantilly. After the close of the war he was identified

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with the Grand Army, and was commander of the Arthur C. Ellis post.

Mr. Bailey was married in September, 1864, at Carmel, N. Y., to Mercy
S. Cole of Fremont, Ohio, but there were no children by this marriage.
Mrs. Bailey died in September, 1882. Mr. Bailey was married again, in
1884, to Frances Gillette, and they have one child, William F. Bailey,
Jr.

In 1867 Mr. Bailey, on the advice of his family physician, removed to
Eau Claire, Wis., as a means of restoring his health, he having
suffered repeatedly from hemorrhage of the lungs, which was contracted
in the army. Mr. Bailey began the study of law after leaving school,
and was admitted to the bar in 1863, in the supreme court in Brooklyn,
New York. Entering upon practice in Wisconsin upon his location in the
state, he acquired a business that steadily increased until it was
probably as extensive as that of any lawyer in the state.

Mr. Bailey is a Democrat in politics, but not known as a bitter
partisan. He has been three times elected mayor of Eau Claire, once
district attorney of Eau Claire county, and, in 1892, was elected judge
of the Seventeenth judicial circuit. In April, 1897, he was an
unsuccessful candidate for re-election.

Judge Bailey has been a close student of law and the general principles
that underlie its practice. In 1894 he published "Bailey on the
Liability of Masters for Injury to Servants." This work has had the
largest sale, with probably one exception, of any book published in
recent years. It has the distinction of not having had an adverse
criticism. In May, 1897, he published "Bailey on Personal Injuries," a
work of two volumes, upon which the author devoted three years of
patient effort, and which is conceded to be the most complete in its
arrangement and classification of subject and matter of any work
published on this subject.

Judge Bailey's marked success as an author will no doubt stimulate him
to further effort in this line, and thus the profession will be placed
under renewed obligation to him for lucid and comprehensive expositions
of the intricacies of the law.

MARSHALL, Roujet de Lisle, associate justice of the supreme court, is  
the son of Thomas Marshall, who was born in Bradford, N. H., in 1820, 
and in early life was a manufacturer of cotton goods. Losing his health, 
he removed to Wisconsin in 1854, settling on a farm in Delton, Sauk 
county, where he died in 1868. He was a direct descendant of Thomas 
Marshall, who came to this country from England in 1634. Joseph 
Marshall, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and in the 
fourth generation from the English ancestor, was born at Chelmsford, 
Mass., in 1734, where he was living at the beginning of the revolution. 
He took part in the battle of Lexington, the siege of Boston, and the 
battles of Bunker Hill and Bennington. In 1776 he removed to Ware, N. 
H., where he was a member of the committee of safety. He died at the age 
of eighty-nine. Thomas, the son of this revolutionary hero, took up his 
residence in Bradford, N. H., about the year 1800,

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and there the father of Justice Marshall was born, as before stated.
The maiden name of the justice's mother was Emeline Pitkin, a
descendant in the eighth generation of William Pitkin, who, with his
sister came to this country from England in 1659. He was the first
attorney-general of the colony of Connecticut. He married Susana
Stanley, and his sister married Oliver Wolcott, and from these unions
sprang the Pitkins and Wolcotts of New England, who were among the most
prominent in the civil and military history of the colonies. William
Pitkin, the fourth from the founder of the family, Benjamin Franklin
and others, at Albany, in 1754, made the first plan for the union and
government of the colonies, and this furnished a basis for the articles
of confederation and subsequently the constitution of the United
States. The mother of the justice was born in 1820, on a farm in
Vermont, and was married to Thomas Marshall in 1842. She is now in her
seventy-eighth year, still resides at the old Marshall homestead in
Sauk county, and takes a lively interest in all current events.

Justice R. de L. Marshall was born in Nashua, N. H., on the 26th of
December, 1847. He was educated in the common school and academy in
Delton, Wis., in an academy in Baraboo, and in Lawrence University at
Appleton. His attendance at the latter institution, however, was of
short duration. He began the study of law at seventeen, some time
before leaving school, and, in March, 1873, was admitted to the bar at
Baraboo. He immediately began practice in Chippewa Falls, in
partnership with N. W. Wheeler, and some years later was associated
with John J. Jenkins, now member of congress from the Tenth district.
His practice largely pertained to private and public corporations and
questions relating to important real estate litigations and business
operations. His career at the bar was very successful in character, the
amount of business and the avails therefrom.

Justice Marshall began his official career at an early age. He was a
justice of the peace

[image: ROUJET DE LISLE MARSHALL.]

at the age of twenty-one, member of a school board at twenty-two,
county judge of Chippewa county at twenty-nine. He was member of the
board of regents of the University of Wisconsin from 1884 to 1889;
circuit judge of the Eleventh circuit from 1889 to 1895--having been
twice elected. Upon the death of Chief Justice Orton, in 1895, Judge
Marshall was appointed, by Gov. Upham, to the resulting vacancy as
associate justice. He entered upon the duties of the office in
September, 1895, was elected to the place for the unexpired term, and,
last spring, was re-elected for the full term of ten years; in both of
these elections he had no opposition.

Politically, Judge Marshall is a Republican, but has not been actively
interested in political affairs. In religion he is an adherent, but not
a member, of the Methodist church.

Justice Marshall was married, in 1869, to Mary E. Jenkins of Baraboo,
Wisconsin, a daughter of Maj. F. K. Jenkins of the Sixth regiment.
Wisconsin volunteers, and a sister of Congressman John J. Jenkins. She
was born in England, and came to Wisconsin in 1853.

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Possessing unflagging energy, great capacity for work, a love for his
professional duties--particularly for the judicial labor in which he is
now engaged--being in the prime of his mental and physical powers and
having the advantage of a wide legal experience, Judge Marshall will
undoubtedly fulfill the expectations of the people of the state who
have twice elected him without opposition to the exalted position which
he now holds. The anticipations that he will have a long and useful
judicial career and prove a fitting successor of the eminent men who
have preceded him, and a worthy associate of those now in service with
him, will probably be fully realized.

CLEMENTSON, George, judge of the Fifth judicial circuit, and a resident
of Lancaster, is the son of Joseph Clementson, who was a native of
Neasham, county of Durham, England, where he was born on the 6th of
July, 1816. He was a wagon-maker and a joiner by trade. After
completing a seven years' apprenticeship, he took up his residence in
Richmond, Yorkshire, where he married Elizabeth Peacock. In 1849, he
and his wife and their two children, George and Fanny, took passage on
a sailing vessel at Liverpool for New Orleans, where they arrived,
after a tedious passage of nine weeks, the middle of May. Finding that
cholera was epidemic in the city, they took passage on the first boat
up the river. Before they reached St. Louis twenty-nine of the
passengers and crew died of the disease. Among the stricken ones was
Mr. Clementson. He recovered, however, and the family continued their
voyage to Galena, where they disembarked and went to Hazel Green, Grant
county. There Mr. Clementson made his home, and carried on the business
of wagon-making until his death, April 16th, 1880. Mrs. Clementson's
death preceded that of her husband by thirteen months. Mr. Clementson
was one of the principal sufferers from the tornado which struck Hazel
Green in March, 1876, having his shop and house destroyed, his leg
broken and suffering internal injuries, which hastened his death.

George Clementson was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, England, March 13th,
1842. He attended the district or village of Hazel Green up to his
fourteenth year, when he entered the Hazel Green Academy, where he was
a student until his seventeenth year, studying Latin, Greek, algebra,
geometry and the branches usual in an academy. His father being unable
to keep him longer in school, he went to work in his father's shop, and
continued in the employment until the fall of 1865, devoting his
earnings and what spare time he had to the study of history,
literature, logic, etc.; after that he took up the study of law, and
acquired what knowledge he could without the aid of an instructor. With
the money saved from his work for the purpose, he entered the law
department of the University of Michigan, and remained there for the
college year of 1865-6. By this time his money was exhausted, and he
returned to his tools in his father's shop, remaining there until the
fall of 1867, when he became a student in the office of Hon. J. Allen
Barber, in Lancaster, continuing there until the following June. In
March, 1868, he was admitted to the bar in the circuit court of Grant
county. He then sought a subordinate position is some law office which
would yield him a support, and, at the same time, an opportunity for
gaining a further knowledge of the law and its practice. Failing in
this he returned to his trade again, occasionally trying a case in a
justice's court, and doing such other legal business as came to him. In
the fall of 1868, he was elected district attorney of Grant county, and
held the office two terms. January following he took up his residence
in Lancaster, which has ever since been his home. November 1st, 1869,
he formed a law partnership with J. Allen Barber, the firm name being
Barber & Clementson, which continued until Mr. Barber's death in June,
1881. In 1870 Mr. Larber was elected to congress,

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and re-elected in 1872. From his entrance into congress until his
death, the major part of the law practice and the responsibility of it
devolved upon Mr. Clementson. So, that, although he found much
difficulty in getting a start in the profession, he was now almost
overburdened with work. Although some of the cases in which he was
engaged attracted much local attention, none of them warrant particular
notice.

In 1882, at the earnest solicitation of prominent attorneys of the
circuit, he consented, though much against his will, and his pecuniary
disadvantage, to be a candidate before the Republican convention for
the nomination for circuit judge, against M. M. Cothren, then the
occupant of the bench; but he stipulated that he would not accept the
nomination if there was any opposition. He was nominated unanimously;
and, greatly to his surprise, was elected, after an exciting contest,
by over two thousand majority. Of the cases tried before him only two
have attracted unusual attention--that of Rose Zoldoski for the murder
of Ella Malley, and the lynchers of Seibolt, who hung him to a tree at
high noon opposite to the court house in Darlington; yet the men were
acquitted by the jury on the ground of insanity.

Judge Clementson has held but one political office, that of district
attorney; and, though a pronounced Republican, he has persisted in
putting aside all solicitations to enter the political field. He was
tendered by Horace Rublee, when chairman of the state central
committee, the nomination for attorney-general to fill a vacancy on the
ticket made by the declination of W. E. Carter. As this office was in
the line of his profession, he would have accepted it if his health had
permitted his entering the campaign.

Judge Clementson was a non-partisian candidate for associate justice of
the supreme court in 1895, and though he received a large vote he was
defeated. He has the judicial qualifications in an eminent degree--
thorough knowledge of the law, the industry necessary

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for close, careful and complete investigation of all cases submitted to
his judgment, and the honesty to decide as his judgment dictates,
regardless of popular clamor.

Judge Clementson does not belong to any clubs or societies, and is not
a member of any church, but is a trustee of the Congregational church
in Lancaster.

He was married on May 11th, 1869, to Mary Asendath Burr of Lancaster, a
daughter of Adison Burr, a merchant of that city, and a niece of J.
Allen Barber. She was born at Fairfield, Vermont, and on her father's
side is connected with that branch of the Burr family of which Aaron
Burr is the most illustrious. They have three children living. One, a
daughter, Martha Lois, died at the age of fourteen years. The three
living are Geo. Burr, who graduated from Cornell university in 1892,
and is now of the law firm of Lowry & Clementson of Lancaster, but just
at present is clerk of the house of representatives committee on the
District of Columbia; Joseph Addison is a physician, also in Lancaster,
and Bessie barber Clementson, the youngest, who is still at home.

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PINNEY, Silas U, associate justice of the supreme court of Wisconsin,
is a native of Rockdale, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where he was
born on the 3rd of March, 1833. On his father's side he was of English
descent, though the family had been in this country since 1642, early
representatives having lived in New England for several generations.
Justin C. Pinney, Judge Pinney's father, was a native of Massachusetts,
but removed to Pennsylvania with his parents when a boy, and there he
was reared to manhood. He married Polly M. Miller, the daughter of a
clergyman of German descent, who had settled in that region in 1792. In
1846 Justin Pinney removed from Pennsylvania to Dane county, Wisconsin,
locating on a tract of land in Windsor township, where he followed the
occupation of a farmer until his death in 1863. Young Pinney had
received a good common school education, and when the family settled in
their new home he found it necessary to abandon books, for a time, for
the less congenial employment of farm work. His leisure moments,
however, were given to private study. Fond of reading, and with a good
supply of books, he made no little progress in mental culture, 
especially as he had a retentive memory, and easily kept what he 
acquired. With a practical turn of mind, his parents sought to have him 
become a surveyor, and did what they could to help him to the necessary 
education. He began teaching school when but sixteen years of age, and 
taught for three years. It was in his first year of teaching that he 
determined to become a lawyer, and after that all his spare moments were 
devoted to the study of the text-books of his chosen profession. In 
April, 1853, when twenty years of age, he entered the law office of 
Vilas & Remington of Madison, as a law student. So rapid was his 
progress in the study, that in less than a year he was admitted to 
practice in the circuit and supreme courts of the state, and not long 
after in the federal courts. His first law partnership was formed with 
L. B. Vilas and Samuel H. Roys, under the firm name of Vilas, Roys & 
Pinney. This partnership was succeeded in turn by those of Roys & 
Pinney; Gregory & Pinney; Abbott, Gregory & Pinney; Abbott, Gregory, 
Pinney -- Flower; Gregory & Pinney again, and Pinney & Sanborn. The last 
named firm continued from 1880 to 1892, when Mr. Pinney became an 
associate justice of the state supreme court, having been elected 
thereto the previous year.

In politics he has always been a Democrat, but has never been
especially active in political work. He has held the office of mayor of
Madison, and that of alderman, and has been a member of the lower house
of the state legislature. He has several times received the nomination
of his party for important positions, but the party being in the
minority he failed of election. His nomination for the supreme court
was a non-partisan one. Judge E. H. Ellis was the opposing candidate.
He prepared and superintendent the publication of the sixteenth volume
of the Wisconsin Court Reports; and, by appointment of the state
supreme court, reported and published the decisions of the territorial
supreme court and of

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the first supreme court of the state, covering the period from 1836 to
1853, which fill there volumes, known as "Pinney's Wisconsin Reports."

Since his entrance into the profession, Judge Pinney has been a very
busy man, and his practice has, for nearly the whole of his
professional life, been very large and doubtless correspondingly
lucrative. Since his first case in supreme court some eighty volumes of
court reports have been published, and his name appears in every one of
them as counsel. In the records of the United States courts his name is
frequently found as counsel in cases involving commercial, corporation,
real estate and constitutional law. Socially, a genial gentleman, a man
of undoubted integrity in all the relations of life, and a profound
lawyer, he has many friends and admirers who were greatly pleased at
his elevation to the supreme bench, believing that he would capably
fill that important trust.

Judge Pinney was married on the 3rd of March, 1856, to Mary M. Mulliken
of Farmersville, Cattaraugus county, N. Y. They had one son, Clarence,
who died at the age of twenty years. An adopted daughter also died when
twenty-one years old.

In religious matters he inclines to the Presbyterian faith, though he
is not a member of any church.

NEWMAN, Alfred W., associate justice of the supreme court of Wisconsin,
was born in Durham, Greene county, New York, April 5th, 1834. His
grandfather, William Newman, and his grandmother were both natives of
New England, and probably of English descent. Soon after their marriage
they removed to Greene county, New York, where their son, William, the
father of Justice Newman, was born in 1801, and where they spent the
remainder of their lives. William Newman, Jr., married Patty Rogers, a
native of Broome county, N. Y., and daughter of Daniel and Rachel
Loomis Rogers, natives of Connecticut. This Rogers family are said to
Trace

[image: ALFRED W. NEWMAN.]

their ancestry to the historic martyr, John Rogers, who suffered death
at the stake for his religious principles. William Newman was a farmer,
and he and his wife spent their lives in New York state. They were the
parents of seven children--five girls and two boys, of the latter of
whom, Judge Alfred W. Newman was the older. He received an academic
education in Ithaca, New York, and in the Delaware Literary Institute
at Franklin, Delaware county. His academic course was followed by a
course in Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, from which he graduated
in 1857. While in Hamilton he received instruction in law from Theodore
W. Dwight, who was afterward, for many years, at the head of the
Columbia law school. For a few months after graduation he was in the
law office of John Olney at Windham Center, from which he was admitted
to the bar in December, 1857, at the general term at Albany. In March,
1858, he took up his residence in Trempealeau county, Wisconsin,
although he was for a few weeks at the beginning of the year at
Ahnapee, Kewaunee county. In 1860, only two years after his settlement
in Trempealeau, he was

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elected county judge and held the office for seven years. He held the
office of district attorney from 1867 to 1876, with an interval of two
years. In 1863 he was a member of the state assembly, and was state
senator for the term of 1868 and 1869. He was elected judge of the
Sixth judicial circuit in 1876, and was re-elected for the two
succeeding terms, without opposition.

In response to a call signed by lawyers and business men, irrespective
of party, he became a candidate for associate justice of the supreme
court to succeed Justice Lyon, who had declined re-election. Judge
Newman was elected by a majority of nearly 50,000 over his opponent,
Charles M. Webb

Among the important cases tried by Judge Newman while on the bench of
the circuit court were the "treasury suits"--the State vs. McFetridge,
and the Statevs. Harshaw. His decision was against each of the
defendants and against a strong popular sentiment. The judgments,
however, were sustained by the supreme court on the same general
grounds assigned by Judge Newman.

On political the judge has always been a Republican, having voted for
Fremont in 1856, and for every Republican presidential candidate since.

He was married August 15th, 1860, to Miss Celia E. Humphrey of Chenango
county, New York, and they have had seven children born to them. Four
sons died in infancy. Two daughters and a son survive.

As lawyer, as legal representative of his county, as legislator, as
circuit and supreme judge, Justice Newman has maintained a character
for ability and integrity which has never been questioned; and he has
proved equal to every duty imposed upon him. That his decisions have
been and will continue to be dictated solely by what he believes to be
the law and substantial justice, none entertain a doubt. Progressive in
the best sense of the word, he is one in whose professional and
judicial judgment the public may unhesitatingly repose its confidence.

WALLBER, Emil, lawyer, ex-mayor and judge, has long been a citizen of
Milwaukee; and, although a comparatively young man, has filled many
official positions, and been as prominently identified with the
progress of the city as almost any man in it. He is the son of Julius
and Henrietta Krohn Wallber, both of whom were natives of Berlin,
Germany, where they resided until they came to this country in 1850.
Judge Wallber was born in Berlin, April 1st, 1841, and was consequently
nine years of age when he made his home in America. Upon their arrival
in this country the family took up their residence in New York City,
where the elder boys attended the public schools, Emil shaping his
studies so as to prepare him for entering upon the study of law, upon
which he had already decided as his profession. Coming to this state in
1855, he entered the office of Charles F. Bode, a justice of the peace,
and afterwards of Winfield Smith and Edward Salomon, who were then in
partnership as lawyers, and began the study of law, which, with slight
interruptions, he has followed, in one form or another, ever since he
was admitted to the bar. Mr. Salomon was elected lieutenant-governor of
Wisconsin for the two years of 1862-3, but Governor Harvey dying in the
April following his inauguration, Mr. Salomon became governor, and Mr.
Wallber was made chief clerk in the executive office, and served in
that position until the end of Gov. Salomon's term. Meantime he
continued his legal studies as opportunity offered, and in 1864, was
admitted to the bar, and the same year was appointed, by Winfield
Smith, his former preceptor, who had become attorney-general, his
assistant in that office. In this position of assistant attorney-
general he served two years, and then returned to Milwaukee, where he
opened an office and commenced the practice of his profession. From
1870 to 1873 he served as school commissioner, two of these years as
president of the board; and, in 1872, he was a member of the lower
house of the state legislature. In 1873 he was nominated and

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elected to the office of city attorney, retaining the office by
successive re-elections until 1878, when he declined a renomination. He
returned to the practice of law better fitted for the profession by
reason of the experience which he had had as legal representative of
the city, and was steadily gaining clients and friends, when, in 1884,
he was elected mayor of Milwaukee, and re-elected in 1886, thus serving
four years in this responsible office. From 1883 to 1890 he was a
member of the board of regents of the state normal schools. In 1889 he
was elected judge of the municipal court of Milwaukee, and re-elected
in 1895. Meantime the law establishing the court had been so changed as
to take away from the court the petty police cases, which it had tried
for many years, and assigned them to a police justice for trial, thus
elevating the municipal court to the jurisdiction of a criminal court.

It is but justice to him to say that in all the official positions
which he has held, he has had the confidence of the people in a large
measure, and has seldom, if ever, failed of election to any office for
which he has been a candidate. As a lawyer he has given close attention
and his best thought to the cases confided to him; as city attorney, he
was careful of the interests of the city; as mayor, no imputation of
corrupt conduct is known to have been made against him--the only
criticism was as to the wisdom of his policy in certain cases; as
judge, he is generally considered to have held the scales of justice
with an even hand, and to have treated counsel and litigants with
courtesy and fairness. In other positions that may be termed honorary,
he has rendered the public much valuable service which it will not
forget, and which will live for many years in its influence upon the
institutions to which it related, and upon those whose characters were
shaping.

Judge Wallber is a Mason, member of Aurora Lodge, No. 30, and belongs
to the Sons of Herman. He has been prominent in the Turnverein
Milwaukee, the Milwaukee

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Musical society, Kindergarten Verein, and other societies of a social
character or relating to the educational progress of the community.

JENKINS, James G., judge of the United States circuit court of the
Seventh judicial circuit, was born at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., July
18th, 1834, the son of Edgar Jenkins, a businessman of New York City,
well known in his time, and, on the maternal side, a grandson of Reuben
H. Walworth, who was the last to hold the office of chancellor of that
state. He received a liberal education in his native state, read law in
New York City and was there admitted to the bar in 1855. In 1857 he
came to Milwaukee and at once began the practice of his profession, in
which he was steadily engaged until 1888, when he received and accepted
the appointment of judge of the United States district court for the
Eastern district of Wisconsin. This position he filled with dignity and
ability until 1893, when he was promoted to the position of judge of
the United States circuit court for the Seventh judicial circuit to
fill the vacancy caused by

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the resignation of Judge Gresham to enter the cabinet of President
Cleveland. In politics he early became prominent as a Democrat, and for
many years he was conspicuous in the councils of his party. When he
came to the city he found a bar containing many lawyers of unusual
ability and prominence in the profession; yet he soon took a position
as the peer of most of them, and this he steadily maintained, the
passing years adding to his prominence and influence as a lawyer so
long as he remained in practice. Some six years after making his home
in the city, he was elected city attorney, and held the office through
four successive terms. Among other important cases during his term as
city attorney, he successfully defended the constitutionality of the
law authorizing taxation to pay soldiers' bounty. In 1879 he was the
Democratic candidate for governor of the state, but was not elected;
and in 1881 he received the vote of his party in the legislature for
United States senator. He was not, however, a seeker after what are
termed political offices or positions, and his candidacy for governor
was accepted at the demand of the leaders of his party rather than 
secured through any efforts of his own. After leaving the office of city 
attorney he entered with new zeal into the regular practice of the law 
and soon had a large clientage, which he held so long as he continued in 
active practice. It was undoubtedly strictly true, as stated when he 
received his judicial appointment, that his acceptance of it would be in 
the nature of a great financial sacrifice. He has always been a close 
student of the law, of general literature and of the arts; and these 
studies have given him a strength and a grace in all his efforts at the 
bar which not many of his professional associates have attained. Free 
from the tricks and cunning which too often disgrace the practice of a 
noble profession, he came to be recognized as one of the foremost and 
ablest of the bar of Wisconsin. As a practitioner he had his full share 
of notable cases in the courts, and conducted as large a percentage of 
them to successful conclusion as have the most prominent of his 
contemporaries.

In 1885 President Cleveland tendered him the position of associate
justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, but he
declined it, as not in any sense more desirable than his large and
increasing practice.

In 1870 Judge Jenkins married the only daughter of Judge Andrew G.
Miller, who was the first judge of the United States district court of
Wisconsin, and their home has been notable as a center of social
culture and refinement. The University of Wisconsin, in 1893, and
Wabash College of Indiana in 1897, conferred upon him the degree of LL.
D., in recognition of his attainments as a lawyer and judge.

Judge Jenkins is admirably qualified for the judiciary by education,
culture and natural tastes, as his career on the bench thus far has
abundantly proved. The United States court of appeals for the Seventh
judicial circuit is composed of Associate Justice Brown of the supreme
court, Judge Woods of Indiana, Judge Showalter of Illinois and Judge
Jenkins of Wisconsin, and the circuit

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comprises the three states named. He has heard many cases of importance
both from the financial interests and the principles involved; but the
case of the Farmers' Loan & Trust company, vs. the Northern Pacific
railway, et al., gave rise to a decision, which by reason of the
principles announced, has given him a world-wide reputation. The action
was to foreclose a trust mortgage for $140,000,000; and, upon
application of the plaintiff, receivers of the trust property were
appointed by the court, on objection thereto being offered by the
defendants. The action was commenced in 1893 at a time of great
financial depression, the business of the railroads being reduced by
one-half; and the receivers reported to the court that they found it
necessary to reduce the salaries of the officers and employees of the
company from ten to twenty per cent. This reduction was to take effect
January 1st, 1894. Naturally, the employees were opposed to any such
reduction of their wages, and threatened to strike if it were insisted
upon. The receivers, hearing of the threats, applied to the court for
an injunctional order forbidding them "from combing and conspiring to
quit the service of the said receivers or doing anything to cripple the
property or prevent or hinder the operation of said railroad." The
order did not forbid the employees from quietly, as individuals, or in a
body, quitting the service of the receivers, but from doing it as a
body in such manner as to injure the operation of the property. The
order was issued December 19th, 1893, and three days thereafter a
supplemental injunctional order was issued embodying the provisions of
the first writ, with an additional clause forbidding the employees
"from combining or conspiring together or with others, either jointly
or severally, or as committees, or as officers of any so-called labor
organization, with the design of causing a strike upon the lines of
railroad operated by said receivers." In short, it was an order
forbidding the men to commit a crime against property which was in
possession of the court or its agents.

A motion to dissolve the injunctional orders was denied by the court in
an exhaustive opinion (reported 60 Fed. Rep. 803) which will stand as a
monument to the learning, judicial ability and fearlessness of Judge
Jenkins. He defined a strike to be "a combined effort among workmen to
compel the master to the concession of a certain demand by preventing
the conduct of his business until compliance with the demand." On
appeal from this order to the circuit court of appeals, the order was
sustained in its main features, the following clause only being
eliminated: "And from so quitting the services of the said receivers,
with or without notice, so as to cripple the property or to prevent or
hinder the operation of said railroad." The appellate court, however,
directed that the injunction be modified by describing therein the
strike as defined by Judge Jenkins in his opinion. The essential part
of the order sustained was as follows: "And from combining and
conspiring to quit, with or without notice, the service of said
receivers, with the object and intent of crippling the property in
their custody, or embarrassing the operations of said railroad." In all
essentials the ruling of Judge Jenkins was sustained. The leaders of
the organization, however, were not content with the decision of the
judge or with the opinion of the court of appeals and took steps
looking to his impeachment by congress, but nothing came of it, as the
judgment of all unbiased people was in favor of the stand taken by
Judge Jenkins.

VINJE, Aad John, a resident of Superior and judge of the Eleventh
Judicial circuit, is the son of John Vinje, a farmer in easy financial
circumstances, in Norway, who died in 1859, from the effects of an
accident. His ancestors for several generations belonged to the well-
to-do farmerclass. The maiden name of A. J. Vinje's mother was Ingeborg
Klove, who was born in Norway in 1824. On his mother's side he is a
lineal descendant of A.

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A. Riber, bishop of Ulvik, who went from Denmark into Norway in 1654;
and his maternal ancestors belonged to the nobility until distinctions
of this class were abolished. His great-grandfather, Aad Klove, whose
name he bears, was a member of the constitutional convention held at
Eidsvold in 1814, when Norway declared her independence of Denmark, and
was a signer of Norway's constitution. His grandfather, David Klove,
served a number of terms in the storthing, or congress, and occupied
several important political positions in the county where he lived. In
1814, his mother married again, and, in 1869, the family emigrated to
Marshall county, Iowa, where his parents still reside.

A. J. Vinje was born November 10th, 1857, at Voss, Norway. From 1869 to
1874 he attended the common schools of Marshall county when he could be
spared from farm work. The family arrived in Iowa from Norway on a
Friday afternoon, and the next Monday his mother sent him to school.
She is a warm admirer of our public school system. If asked to what he
owes whatever of success he has attained, he says that he would
unhesitatingly answer: "To my mother and our free public school system--
it was she who taught me the value of an education, and our free public 
schools that enabled me to secure one." A neighbor had asked her to take 
her boy out of school to herd cattle for him; and, upon her declining, 
he remarked: "Your boy will never be anything but a farmer, anyway." 
"That may be, sir," she answered, "but I want him to be an intelligent 
one." This ended the argument, and the boy went back to school. In 1874 
he attended one term in Iowa college, at Grinnell, and in 1873-6 he was 
a student in the Northwestern University at Des Moines, Iowa. The next 
two years he taught school in Marshall county. In 1878, he entered the 
subfreshmen class in the University of Wisconsin, from the literary 
department of which he graduated with honors in 1884. His parents lost 
their property in the panic of 1873, and, as a consequence, he had to 
pay his own educational expenses, which he did chiefly by teaching 
school. From the time he entered the university until he graduated he 
was out, teaching, one year and two terms; and, during the last three 
years of his college course, he taught four weeks every summer vacation, 
in the Teachers' Institute at Marshaltown, Iowa. While at the university 
he was an active member of the Natural History club and the Mathematical 
society, and for two years was one of the managing editors of the 
University Press. Philosophy, languages and natural sciences were his 
favorite studies.

From 1884 until 1888 he was assistant to the state librarian at
Madison; and, while occupying this position, he completed the law
course in the university, graduating therefrom in 1887. In 1888 he was
appointed assistant to the supreme court reporter, and held the
position until the spring of 1891, when he resigned to enter the
practice of law of Superior in partnership with Hon. L. S. Butler. This
partnership was dissolved by mutual consent January 1st, 1895. In
August of that year the office of judge of the Eleventh Judicial
Circuit becoming vacant through the resignation of

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Judge Marshall, who had been appointed associate justice of the supreme
court, the bar of Douglas county unanimously recommended the
appointment of Mr. Vinje to the vacancy. He received the appointment
from Gov. Upham, and the following spring was elected for the term
ending the first Monday in January, 1901.

In politics Judge Vinje is a Republican and in religion a Unitarian.

Judge Vinje was married, in 1886, to Alice Idell Miller, of Oregon,
Wis., and they have three children--Arthur, David and Janet.

O'NEILL, James, a resident of Neillsville and judge-elect of the
Seventeenth Judicial circuit, was born at Lisbon, St. Lawrence county,
N. Y., Sept 3d, 1847. His father, Andrew O'Neill, a farmer by
occupation, is also a native of Lisbon, and resides there still. His
grandfather, also Andrew O'Neill, the first settler in the town of
Lisbon, was born in Shanes Castle on the banks of Lake Neag, in the
north of Ireland. Andrew O'Neill, the father of the Judge, is a
Republican, was collector of customs in Lisbon for sixteen years, is a
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and has a most honorable
record as a good man and a public-spirited citizen. Judge O'Neill's
mother, Mary Holliston, was born near Ogdensburg, N. Y., and died in
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1852.. Her parents were both from Berwickshire,
Scotland. His paternal grandfather's maiden name was Armstrong, and her
nationality English.

James O'Neill had his rudimentary education in the common schools of
his native town, and began teaching a district school when fifteen
years of age and taught several terms. In 1863, at the age of sixteen
years, he entered St. Lawrence University, at Canton, N. Y., and was a
student therein for three years in all, dropping out occasionally to
teach school and earn part of the money necessary to enable him to
pursue his studies. In 1868 he entered Cornell University as a
sophomore, and

[image: JAMES O'NEILL]

graduated therefrom in June, 1871, in the full classical course. While
in the university he was editor of the Cornell Era one year, and member
of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. From 1870 to 1871 he was principal of
the Ogdensburg Academy.

Entering the Albany law school in 1872, he graduated in 1873, and came
to Wisconsin in September following, on a visit to his uncle, James
O'Neill, at Neillsville, who was its first settler, he having located
there in 1844, represented the county in the state assembly in 1849 and
1868, and died in 1880. At the earnest solicitation of his uncle, the
young man concluded to make his home in Neillsville, opened an office
there from the practice of the law, and there he was remained since,
steadily pursuing his professional work, first alone, then with H. W..
Sheldon from 1877 to 1879, and again alone until 1890, when Spencer M.
Marsh became his partner, under the firm name of O'Neill & Marsh.

Judge O'Neill's political record has been that of a consistent and
earnest Republican, and an honorable worker for what he believes to be
the best public policy. He was a member

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of the lower houses of the legislature in 1885, was appointed district
attorney of Clark county, by Gov. Rusk in 1887, and elected to the same
office in the following year by the largest majority received by anyone
on the ticket. In 1888 he was a delegate to the Republican national
convention, and was the Republican candidate for attorney-general in
1890 and 1892, but the party was defeated in those years, and he
suffered de feat with it. He was a candidate for judge of the
Seventeenth circuit in 1891, but was defeated by W. F. Bailey, who had
a majority of 512. He was again a candidate for the same position in
April, 1897, and was elected by a plurality of 5412, one of his
opponents being Win. F. Bailey, who was successful four years before in
the contest for the same office. Judge O'Neil carried every county in
the circuit, and the endorsement by the press of his candidacy and of
his eminent fitness for the office both as regarded character and
ability were unqualified and enthusiastic.

The Judge was baptized and brought up in the Episcopal church--the
church of his father. He was married June 6th, 1876, to Marian Robinson
of Neillsville, and two children have been born to them--a son, Ernest,
twenty years old, now in the state university, and a daughter, Marian,
fourteen years of age.

COSSADAY, John B., chief justice of the supreme court of Wisconsin, was
born in Herkimer county, New York, July 7th, 1830. His father died some
three years after the birth of this boy, and his mother, with her
child, removed with her parents to Tioga county, Pa. There the boy
began attending the district school, working for his board, as his
mother was without means to give him the full advantages which boys of
his age usually receive. Before he had attained his seventeenth year he
had, in addition to his attendance upon the district school, been on
term at the Tioga academy and one at the academy in Wellsborough.
During the next four years he was engaged in teaching and in manual 
labor, and in this way secured the means for the payment of his expenses 
during a course of study of two terms at the academy in Knoxville, Pa., 
and two at the Alfred (N. Y.) Academy, from which he graduated. He then 
spent a year in the University of Michigan, taking a select course. This 
was followed by a short time at the Albany law school, after which he 
studied law in an office in Wellsborough, Pa. In 1857 he came to 
Janesville, Wis., where he entered the law office of H. S. Conger, 
afterwards judge of that circuit, and studied law for a year or more, 
when he became a member of the law firm of Benneth, Cossaday & Gibbs. 
This partnership continued seven years, during which Mr. Cossaday, by 
his native ability, industry and perseverance, rapidly rose in his 
profession, until he came to be recognized as one of the ablest members 
of the Rock county bar. For two years from 1866 he was in practice 
alone, then in company with Willard Merrill, now of the Northwestern 
Life Insurance company, for five years, and after that with Ed. F. 
Carpenter, a half-brothers of the late Senator Carpenter, until he was 
appointed to the supreme bench in November, 1880.

Mr. Cossaday, both as lawyer and judge, has always been a hard student,
with great care for details and methods, a close reasoner, an untiring
worker, and unsparing of effort in the preparation of his cases. As an
advocate he had few equals, because of the clearness, directness and
force with which he presented a case. He was, in addition, the master
of an attractive style, which rose to the plane of real eloquence when
he chose to indulge in that form of speech. He was successful at the
bar from the beginning, and during his twenty odd years of practice was
never wanting in clients.

Since the organization of the Republican party there has been no more
consistent earnest and zealous adherent of it than Mr. Cossaday. He was
a delegate to the Baltimore convention in 1864 that nominated Lincoln
for re-election,

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and was member of the committee on credentials. The same year he was
elected to the legislative assembly, serving on the judiciary and
railroad committees. The thirteenth amendment to the national
constitution was presented for ratification at that session, and he
took an active part in the debate on its passage. In 1876 he was again
elected to the assembly, was chosen its speaker, and his ability and
tact in that position resulted in one of the shortest and most
effective session in the history of the state. He was a delegate-at-
large to the Republican national convention in Chicago in 1880, and was
chairman of the delegation. He presented to the convention the name of
E. B. Washburn as a candidate for the nomination for president in a
dignified, eloquent and powerful speech; but it was seen on the second
day that none of the leading candidates would be nominated, and the
Wisconsin delegation, which contained some of the ablest Republicans in
the state, decided that at the proper moment the vote of the state
should be cast for James A. Garfield, and it was left for Mr. Cossaday
to determine when that time had come. On the thirty-fourth ballot he
declared to his fellow-delegates that the time had come for breaking
the dead-lock, and announced the vote of Wisconsin for Garfield, amid
intense excitement. The second ballot thereafter Garfield received the
nomination. From the time of his coming to the state Justice Cossaday
had taken an active part in all important political campaigns, making
able and effective speeches, devoted to the discussion of the questions
at issue between the parties, but never descending to mere partisan
harangues. Yet he was not an officeseeker, though frequently a delegate
to state conventions, and in positions where he might have secured
nomination had he so chosen. He declined all offices, however, when
tendered, though among them were those connected with his profession,
such as attorney-general and circuit judge.

Chief Justice Ryan of the supreme court died in October, 1880, creating
a vacancy in

[image: JOHN B. COSSODAY.]

that court. Immediately the Rock county bar addressed a petition to
Gov. Smith asking the appointment of Justice Cossaday to the vacancy,
and this petition was followed up by personal letters to the governor
from such prominent persons as Senator Carpenter, Willard Merrill and
by most favorable notices from the public press. Justice Cole, the
oldest member on the bench, was appointed chief justice, and Mr.
Cossaday associate justice. In April, 1881, both were elected to the
places to which they had been appointed, on calls from the bar and the
members of the legislature. In 1889 Justice Cossaday was re-elected
without opposition, receiving 210,899 votes. Upon the death of Chief
Justice Orton, in July, 1895, Justice Cossaday became chief justice
under the law, he being oldest judge in point of service. In 1881
Beloit College conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., an honor most
worthily bestowed. His judicial work has been most faithfully and ably
done, and has given entire satisfaction to the bar and to the people
generally. Since taking his place on the bench he was shown his regard
for the proprieties of the position by refraining entirely

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from all active participation in political affairs.

Since 1885 Justice Cossaday has been lecturer to the senior class in
the college of law of the University of Wisconsin. His lectures on
wills have been published and they form the text-book on that subject
in the law school. He still lectures once a week during the college
year on constitutional law. He has delivered some very able addresses
on various subjects--one a memorial address on Gen. Grant--which have
been published and highly commended.

Justice Cossaday was married on the 21st of February, 1860, to Miss
Mary P. Spaulding of Janesville, Wis., and they have four daughters and
a son. The daughters are all married, and are Mrs. Wm. H. Jacobs of
Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Geo. H. Wheelock of South Bend, Ind.; Mrs.
Nathan Clark of Duluth, Minn., and Mrs. Carl Johnson of Madison, Wis.
The son, Eldon J., is connected with the legal department of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad in Chicago.

Justice and Mrs. Cossaday have long been consistent and earnest members
of the Congregational church, and four of their children are members of
the same organization.

SUTHERLAND, George Eaton, a member of the Milwaukee bar and a lawyer of
ability and thorough education, is the son of Samuel Wait Sutherland,
who was a well-to-do father and a vigorous opponent of slavery in the
stirring times just before the war of the rebellion. His mother was Amy
Smith, a daughter of Ezra Smith, a sea captain of New London,
Connecticut. Mr. Sutherland's ancestry on his father's side was a
Scotch descent, and English on the mother's

He was born in Burlington, Otsego county, New York, on the 14th day of
September, 1843. His early education was received in the common schools
in his native state and in Wisconsin, to which state he came with his
parents in 1855, settling on a farm near
Waukan, Winnebago county. His experiences in making his way toward a
liberal education did not differ materially from those of other boys
with the same ambition. After completing the usual preparatory studies,
he entered Amherst College in Massachusetts, pursued the classical
course, and graduated therefrom in 1870, standing among the class honor
men, and having won a number of prizes for scholarship. After leaving
Amherst he took a two years' course in Columbia College Law School,
completing it in one year. In September, 1871, he opened an office for
the practice of his profession in Ripon. Wisconsin, continuing in
business with fair success until 1874, when he removed to Fond du Lac,
and entered into partnership with David Taylor, later one of the
associate justices of the supreme court of the state. This partnership
continued until Judge Taylor took his seat upon the supreme bench, in
1878. Mr. Sutherland removed to Milwaukee in 1886, and at once began
the practice of his profession in the city. His principal business is
court work, or work in the actual trial of cases; and he is very
frequently employed as counsel to assist other attorneys in important
actions.

Mr. Sutherland's war record is highly creditable to him as a citizen
soldier. He enlisted at Utica, New York, September 30th, 1862, in the
First New York light artillery. On the 23rd of July, 1864, he was
commissioned, by President Lincoln, captain in the Thirteenth United
States colored heavy artillery. On the 12th of October, 1864, he was
wounded and taken prisoner at Eddyville, Kentucky. After recovering
from his wound and release from captivity, he was made commissary of
subsistence at Smithfield, Kentucky, during the spring and early summer
of 1865. The remainder of the year, until discharged on the 26th of
November, he served as member of a military commission and court-
martial at Camp Nelson and Lexington, Kentucky. He was recommended for 
promotion to the office of major, but no vacancy occurring

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the promotion was not made. Mr. Sutherland has been a member of the
Wisconsin division of the Grand Army and Loyal Legion, and commander of
the latter organization.

The political and official record of Mr. Sutherland is a worthy one,
based upon substantial public service. He was city attorney of Ripon
for two years, member of the county board of supervisors of Fond du Lac
county one year, and member of the state senate for the term of 1880-2.
In 1880 he was appointed by Gov. Smith chairman of the committee to
investigate the affairs of the state hospital near Madison. He entered
upon his work with energy and did it most thoroughly and
conscientiously. In the prosecution of this duty he became convinced
that the system of governing the charitable, reformatory and penal
institutions of the state by unpaid boards of trustees was wrong in
theory and unsatisfactory in its results. At the next session of the
legislature, therefore, he introduced a bill providing for the placing
of all these institutions under one paid supervisory board, and
abolishing all of the local boards of trustees. The scheme was a novel
one, and met with some opposition at first; but the facts and arguments
in its support, as presented by Mr. Sutherland, finally overcame what
opposition there was, and the bill became a law with only one
dissenting vote. The board of supervision, now called the board of
control, was formed and took charge of the institutions in the summer
of 1881. The system is still in operation to the very general
satisfaction of those who have familiarized themselves with its
results. Other states have followed the lead of Wisconsin in this
matter, and adopted its plan in whole or in part, as the most efficient
and satisfactory system yet found of managing state institutions of
that character.

Mr.Sutherland held the position of post-master at Fond du Lac in 1883-
4, and made an efficient and popular officer; but was removed in the
latter year on account of "offensive partisanship." In April, 1897, he
was

[image: GEORGE EATON SUTHERLAND.]

elected judge of the superior court of Milwaukee county, and entered
upon the discharge of his judicial duties in May following. He is a
member of the Old Settlers' club. He is also a member of Plymouth
Congregational church, and has been president of its board of trustees
for many years.

Mr. Sutherland was married on the 4th of May, 1871, to Adela E.
Merrell, sister of Dr. Merrell, formerly president of Ripon College.
They have two children, Amy Marie and Agnes Madeline Sutherland.

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