Men of Progress. Wisconsin. (pages 184-216) 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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HARING, Cornelius I., secretary of the Milwaukee Bar association, is a
representative of one of the oldest families in the state of New York.
The official records of Rockland county, New York, show that the
soldier, Jan Pieter Haring, of the Peninsula of Horn in Holland, was
the great-grandson of patriot John Haring, who distinguished himself in
many ways in Holland's battles for freedom against Spain, and whose
acts of heroism are so vividly described in Motley's Rise of the Dutch
Republic. Jan Pieter Haring, the ancestor of the American branch of the
Haring family, emigrated from Holland to this country in the year 1660,
settled on Manhattan island and owned a farm of one hundred acres in
what is now the heart of New York City. This Haring farm extended from
the Bowery lane westward beyond Bedford street, and included both sides
of Broadway from about Waverly place down to a line near Bleeker
street. In 1673-4 Jan Pieter Haring was one of the Schoepens to govern
the "outside people on Manhattan island beyond the then little city of 
New York, called New Orange. Subsequently, many members of this family 
held positions of honor and trust in the legislature and on the bench. 
Orange county, for the first twenty-five years from 1701 to 1726, sent 
but one representative to the colonial general assembly; during that 
time, with the execution of seven years, that representative was chosen 
from the Haring family.

On July 4th, 1774, at a meeting of the free-holders of Orangetown, the
Orangetown resolutions, consisting of seven articles, were drawn up and
adopted, which contain the germ of the great principles embodied in the
Declaration of Independence. John Haring and Peter Haring, with three
others, were appointed a committee for this town to correspond with the
city of New York to conclude and agree upon such measures as should be
found necessary. John Haring was the chairman of the committee and
himself drew the Orangetown resolutions.

The fifth article of the resolutions of this meeting formed a part of
what was known as the "nonimportation agreement" which was adopted by
the continental congress at Philadelphia, October 20th, 1774; this non-
importation article was subsequently ratified by the several colonies,
and was one of the overt acts that precipitated the revolution.

In April, 1775, John Haring was chosen delegate from Orange county,
"South of the Mountains," to the provincial congress, and elected
president of the same. In 1783, 1785 and 1787, John Haring was chosen
delegate from "South of the Mountains" to the constitutional convention
at "P., Keepsie."

The Orange county judgeship seems to have been held almost exclusively
by members of the Haring family from 1717 to 1788. It is not
surprising, therefore, that the subject of this sketch, having
descended from such an honorable and prominent family, should have
certain attributes of character and mind which would make his success
at the

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law of foregone conclusion--and he has not disappointed the
expectations of his friends. He was born on the 4th of April, 1860, at
New City, in Rockland county, New York, his father being Dr. I. C.
Haring, one of the best known physicians in Rockland county at the
present time. His mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Tallman, also
belonged to one of the old Holland families who emigrated to his county
in the middle of the seventeenth century.

Mr. Haring received his early education where nearly all other American
boys have received theirs, in the public schools near his home. After
the necessary preparation, he entered Rutgers College, at New
Brunswick, N. J., and graduated therefrom in 1881. He was a member of
the college societies Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa; was president
of his class and of the Glee club, business manager of the college
paper, and captain of the foot ball team. After graduating from
Rutgers, he entered the law school of Columbia College, was graduated
in 1883, and admitted to the bar of New York immediately after. He came
to Milwaukee in 1884, and was first associated with Joshua Stark in the
law. In 1887 he went into partnership with Adolph Herdegen. Upon the
death of that gentleman, the following year, he formed a partnership
with Edward W. Frost, under the firm name of Haring & Frost. Later
Charles E. Shepard came into the firm, and the name became Shepard,
Haring & Frost. Upon the removal of Mr. Shepard to Seattle, the firm
again became Haring & Frost, and so remains. He has succeeded in
building up a large general practice and is considered one of the
leaders among the younger members of the profession. He is regarded as
well qualified in the management of corporation and probate matters,
and in carrying on commercial litigation, and in settling and adjusting
insolvent estates.

Mr. Haring earned his first professional money by defending the
anarchist, Paul Grottkau, in civil suits.

[image: CORNELIUS I. HARING.]

He is a Republican, on principle, but never sought or held a political
office. As already stated, he is secretary of the Milwaukee Bar
association; and he is also secretary of the Lawyers' club; member of
the committee on amendments to the law of the State Bar association,
and is a member of the Deutscher club. He belongs to Plymouth
Congregational church. Is unmarried.

SANBORN, A. L., a resident of Madison and one of the foremost members
of the bar of that city, is descended from Lieutenant John Sanborn, an
English soldier who settled in New Hampshire in colonial days, and from
whom the village of Sanbornton is named, and by whose descendants it
has been principally populated. From this colony the Sanborns have
spread into adjoining states, New York and the northwest. S. E. and
Harriet Blount Sanborn, the parents of the subject of this sketch, had
settled in Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence county, N.Y., and here he was
born November 17th, 1850. In 1858 the family moved to Geneva, Walworth
county, Wisconsin,

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[image: A. L. SANBORN.]

where, in 1861, the father did, leaving his wife and two sons in
straightened circumstances. The boy, Arthur, was but eleven years old
when his father did, and it became necessary for him to contribute to
the support of the family, which he did by working in a woolen mill.
Educational privileges were sacrificed to this dire necessity, but the
boy was fond of study, and by using his evenings and what leisure
moments he had, he was enabled to secure what was nearly equivalent to
a high school education. In 1869 the family moved to Elkhorn, and there
the boy, now approaching manhood, secured a clerkship in the office of
the register of deeds. This gave him the opportunity which he sought
for preparation for a profession, and he began reading law. Meantime,
he was elected register himself, and held the office for two terms or
four years, at the end of which he was admitted to the bar. Not
satisfied with this, however, he went to Madison and took a course in
the law department of the university, completing it 1880. Before the
course was ended he formed a law partnership with S. U. Pinney, now
associate justice of the supreme court. This partnership was continued 
until January, 1892, when Mr. Pinney took his seat on the supreme bench. 
The firm of Pinney & Sanborn became widely known through its conducting 
a number of very important and extended railroad cases. For something 
over a year after Judge Pinney's withdrawal from the firm, James B. Kerr 
was associated with Mr. Sanborn; but, in April, 1893, the firm of 
Spooner, Sanborn & Spooner was formed, Senator Spooner being at the 
head. The business of this firm embraces large and intricate cases such 
as the land and tax litigation in Superior, involving over $1,000,000, 
and the details of these cases have been largely in the hands of Mr. 
Sanborn. The land title cases have been carried to the United States 
supreme court at Washington, before which he presented the issues 
involved.

Mr. Sanborn, in connection with Mr. Berryman, in charge of the state
law library, has published, as a supplement to the revised statutes,
what is called "Sanborn & Berryman's Annotated Statutes," bringing the
legislation since 1878 down to 1889, and they are now authorized to
continue the work down to January 1st, 1898. Mr. Sanborn was, for three
years, from 1886, a lecturer in the law department of the university,
his theme being pleading and practice.

In politics Mr. Sanborn is a Republican, and has been of much service
in promoting the interest and principles of the party, but always in a
clean and honorable way, for he hates anything else in political work.

Mr. Sanborn was married, in 1874, to a lady of Elkhorn, Miss Alice
Golder, and they have four children--John B., Kate, Eugene and Philip.
The eldest graduated from the state university in June, 1896, having
distinguished himself in college journalism. They have a pleasant home
on Mendota lake, the largest of the "four lakes of Madison."

Mr. Sanborn is a tireless worker, or he never could have accomplished
what he has. He is of a judicial turn of mind and possesses the
material out of which good judges are made.

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HOWE, William Edwin, a lawyer of Boscobel and district attorney of
Grant county, is the son of Henry E. and Mary A. Wood Howe. Henry E.
Howe was a farmer in moderate circumstances. His family was of English
origin, but has been in America for several generations. He was born at
Gill, Massachusetts, in 1810, and came west in 1835, settling in
Galena, III., where he engaged in the livery business. The carriages
and other material he brought by team from Boston. The harness was
bought from the father of Gen. U. S. Grant, who was then in the harness
manufacturing business in Galena. In 1850 Mr. Howe removed to Monona,
Clayton county, Iowa, where he was engaged for a few years in trading
with the Indians, and then in farming. In 1870, having acquired a
moderate competence, he moved to Madison, Wis., to obtain better
educational facilities for his children. W. E. Howe's mother was of
Welsh and Irish origin, but the family had long been in this county.
She was born in Steuben, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., in 1825.

W. E. Howe was born in Monona, Clayton county, Iowa, January 17th,
1851. His education was obtained at the common and high schools of the
village of Monona. These were of the average character for the time.
Among the valuable lessons which he land at the common school, after
what seemed years of experiment, was that rapidity and thoroughness in
learning did not go together, in his case, at last, and he was
compelled to adopt the latter or forego all success. He came to Madison
with his parents and entered the state university in 1869, in the
scientific course, from which he graduated in 1873, with the first
honors of his class. While in the institution he was a member of the
Athenian society. After graduation he began the study of law in the
office of Hon. J. H. Carpenter of Madison, attending the law course in
the university at the same time, from which he graduated in 1874. In
1876 he began the practice of law in La Crosse, in partnership with
Mills Tourtellotte, the partnership continuing

[image: WILLIAM EDWIN HOWE.]

until 1880. In the following year he was elected justice of the peace
at large for the city of La Cross. This position was worth at that time
over $3,000 per year, and he held it for two years. He then returned to
the practice of the law, in which be continued for some three years,
when, in 1885, he engaged in general business enterprises in South
Dakota, but soon came to the conclusion that "Wisconsin was good enough
for him," and he returned to the state in 1892, and took up his
practice at Boscobel. He held the office of city attorney for two
years, 1893-4, and in 1896 was elected district attorney for Grant
county, which office he now holds.

Mr. Howe has had a considerable number of important cases, but thinks
that non of them warrant special mention.

The first money he earned was a quarter, his share of fifty cents which 
the state of Iowa paid him and his brother as bounty for killing a
wolf. That quarter appeared larger and made him happier than all the
money he has since earned.

In politics he has always been a Republican,

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but has not been specially active in political work. He was one of the
delegates from Grant county to the Republican state convention held in
Milwaukee in August, 1894.

Mr. Howe is a Master Mason, and, while at La Crosse, was a member and
secretary of the La Crosse club, a social organization. He was formerly
a Congregationalist in religion, but at present has no connection with
any church.

Mr. Howe was married at Boscobel, June 23rd, 1875, to Mary I. Carrier,
eldest daughter of T. Carrier of Boscobel, and they have had four
children, three of whom are now living--T. H., Wm. C. and Grace C.
Howe. Mrs. Howe's father, T. Carrier, was one of the early settlers of
Wisconsin and is well known throughout the state. He was once sheriff
of Grant county, was a very popular and efficient officer, and there
has never been an election since he retired from the office that he has
not refused entreaties to become again a candidate.

JACKSON, James Albert, M. D., one of the foremost physicians of
Madison, is an Englishman by birth, the son of Charles Jackson of
Yorkshire ancestry, and by occupation an apothecary. Dr. Jackson has in
his possession a certificate from the first pharmaceutical society of
Great Britain, issued to his father as one of its earliest members. In
England the apothecary also prescribes for patients, and he did a very
successful business in his line. He died, however, before his son could
remember much of his history. Dr. Jackson's mother was Fannie Hurd
before marriage, a native of the beautiful little town of Ashbourn, in
Derbyshire, England, near the celebrated River Dove. The Doctor knows
but little of his ancestors, except that they were respectable people
of the middle or farming class. One of his maternal uncles, however,
was a gentleman of means and another held a life-long government
position in London. His step-grandfather in his younger
days was in the British navy and fought under Nelson. Afterwards he was
in the iron business and later on was a gentleman of leisure.

Dr. Jackson was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, on the
8th of August, 1840. The name of the town is a modern translation from
Wulfrunshampton, so named in honor of Wulfruna, who there founded a
monastery in the time of King Ethelred. In time this town became the
center of a large iron, coal and manufacturing district. The primary
education of young Jackson was received at boarding schools of the
neighboring villages, and afterward he attended the Wolverhampton
Grammar School, and it is to the head master of this school, who was a
strict disciplinarian, before whom no pupil dared appear without well-
learned lessons, that Dr. Jackson ascribes at least a part of his
success in life. In the fall of 1853, young Jackson came to Wisconsin
with his step-father, Dr. William Hobbins, riding in an open wagon from
Milton, then the terminus of the railroad, to Madison. With the family
came relatives to the number of forty, who had been attracted by the
published descriptions of the beauty of the "City of the Four Lakes,"
which had been sent them by relatives in Boston, where Dr. Hobbins had
lived for a short time upon his first visit to this country. The life
at Madison was entirely new to young Jackson--the getting away from the
smoke and steam of a large manufacturing city to the free, open
country, with its charming lakes, was a change delightful beyond
expression. He passed the first few years after he arrived in hunting,
fishing, sailing and skating, as the reason suggested. Game was then so
plenty that, in his boyish days he used to hunt quail in the capitol
park with a bow and arrow. Up to that time he had led the sedentary
life of a book-worm and was always weak and sickly; but the active, 
out-of-door life here in the pure, bracing, western atmosphere soon
made him healthy and robust.

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After he had been some time in Madison, he entered the University of
Wisconsin, then under Chancellor Lathrop; but the war breaking out
about this time, he enlisted, as did many students of that day, and
went to the "front," where he received a very different kind of
education from any of which he had had previous knowledge. He was
assigned to duty as hospital steward of the "Eagle regiment," and
toward the close of his service was assistant surgeon.

After returning from the war he studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, New York City, where he was graduated in 1866. He
began practice in Stoughton, Wisconsin; but, in 1871, he returned to
New York, and took a post-graduate course, attending all the leading
colleges and principal hospitals. In 1887 he went to Europe to gain
further knowledge of surgery, to which branch of his profession he had
for several years given chief attention. In Great Britain and on the
continent he visited many of the large hospitals, where he passed many
interesting and profitable hours in watching and studying the ways and
methods of men who had become eminent in surgery, and have attained a
world-wide reputation. Since his return from abroad he has been
steadily occupied with an extensive surgical and consultation practice,
during which time he has been called to see patients in consultation or
to perform operations in upwards of a hundred different places within a
radius of fifty miles from Madison. For fifteen years he was surgeon of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company at Madison, and
regretfully relinquished the position from press of business that
called him so often to a distance from home.

During his professional life he has belonged to some seven different
medical societies, including the old Dane County Medical society, of
which he was more than once president, and the Wisconsin State Medical
Society. He was present at the organization of several of these
societies, among them the Madison

[image: JAMES ALBERT JACKSON.]

Medical club, the Association of Surgeons of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul railway, and the Central Wisconsin Medical society, of which
latter he was at once time presiding officer. He has contributed many
articles bearing upon important questions in surgery, and for thirty
years has been a zealous advocate of all that tends to advance medicine
to the position of an exact science.

Dr. Jackson has never been a strong partisan in politics, but has
always inclined to what seemed to him wisest and best regardless of
party. He has, however, almost always cast his ballot for the
Republican candidates in the national campaigns. In the recent
presidential election he was a zealous advocate of a sound currency.

In religious matters the doctor is an Episcopalian, having been
baptized and confirmed according to the rites of that church, but in no
sense is he illiberal or intolerant of the opinions of those who think
differently from him.

Dr. Jackson was married February 6th, 1871, to Syndonia Josephine
Hobbins, daughter of Dr. Joseph Hobbins, long and well

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known as a physician of prominence, as a promoter of horticultural
interests in the state, and as president and founder of the Madison
Literary club. They have had ten children, eight of whom are living.
They are receiving a liberal education--the oldest, Russell, is
studying law, and the second, Reginald H., is in the medical department
of Columbia University, New York City.

Mrs. Jackson, on her mother's side, is descended from emigrants to New
England, many of whom were prominent in the early history of
Massachusetts, and served nobly in the establishment of our free
institutions.

MOESKES, Gerhard Tillman, a resident of Appleton, and county judge of
Outagamie county, is one of the most conspicuous examples of the "self-
made" man of which this volume gives account. He was born on the 18th
of January, 1846, at Boenning, near Fort Wesel, in the Rhine province,
Prussia. His father, Herman Moeskes, was born of well-to-do parents,
near Venlo, Holland; but, becoming an orphan at the age of nine years,
drifted into Germany. His education was neglected, and he grew up on a
farm as a common laborer, reaching the height of his ambition upon
being installed as coachman and hunter of Count Van Loe in the Rhine
province, Prussia. From this place he emigrated with his family to the
United States in 1860, settling in Manitowoc, Wis., where he died April
28th, 1894. An uncle of his, William Weyers, was a member of the
Holland cabinet and quite wealthy. His wife, the mother of Judge
Moeskes, was Maria K. Geeren, whose relatives were in good
circumstances. She died in Manitowoc, September 10th, 1866.

G. T. Moeskes attended a common school in his native Prussia from the
age of seven years to fourteen, attendance being compulsory, eight
hours a day, with only one month's vacation during the year. He was
taught by one and the same teacher during the entire period of his
attendance. This teacher, Carl Enkling, is still living, but recently 
pensioned. Judge Moeskes has always held him in high esteem and 
frequently corresponds with him now, ascribing to him the benefits of 
his own early training and his ability for successful work. This youth 
supplemented his Prussian education, upon arriving in this country, by 
taking lessons in the English language evenings from a hired domestic, 
and from a school teacher who boarded with the family for whom he worked 
on a farm near Ripon. Boy though he was when he reached this country, 
and in poor circumstances, he began work at whatever he could find to 
do--on farms and in mills-- and in this way earned the means to pay for 
a home for his parents. At the age of twenty, he started out for 
himself, by learning the carpenter's trade, serving an apprenticeship of 
five weeks, at fifty cents a day. After this he went to Fond du Lac, 
where he obtained work at two dollars and a half per day. There he 
continued to work until his mother's death, when, at his father's 
request, he returned home to Manitowoc, where he obtained work in a ship 
yard at two dollars and a half per day, while old carpenters, alongside 
of whom he worked, received but one dollar and seventy-five cents per 
day--the difference being due to young Moeskes' superior skill and 
capacity for work. He continued at this business until he was placed in 
charge of a crew of men to repair or rebuild a dredge for John Schuette. 
Having acquired a good, practical knowledge of the English language, he 
gave up his trade, and, in 1868, became an insurance agent, and 
continued in the business until 1874, when, upon returning from a four 
weeks' trip in Marathon county, he found himself elected justice of the 
peace. During his two years' occupancy of the office he tried over six 
hundred cases. In the spring of 1876 he began the study of law in the 
office of Collins & Pierce, and in the fall of that year was elected 
clerk of the circuit court, an office which he filled with 
characteristic ability and fidelity for eight consecutive years, during 
which time he steadily pursued the study of

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law as opportunity offered, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. At the
expiration of his term as clerk of the court, he commenced the practice
of law in Appleton, having as partner Humphrey Pierce, and in this was 
quite successful. At the end of five years, or in 1889, he was elected
county judge of Outagamie county, and this office he has held
continuously since, having been re-elected in April, 1897, as a
Democrat, by nearly 1,500 majority in a county that gave nearly 1,500
Republican majority in 1896.

When Judge Moeskes has taken any part in politics, it has been in
affiliation with the Democratic party. In connection with Lieutenant-
Governor Baench he called the first meeting of county judges, and was
one of a committee of three that formulated the present county court
rules. He has been a member of the board of aldermen of the city;
director of the Citizens' National bank of Appleton, and director of
the Prescott hospital. He is a Catholic in religion. While he was a
member of the St. Joseph's Benevolent society, he held continuously the
office of secretary, was delegate to the biennial meeting of the
Central society at Philadelphia in 1876, and finally president. He was
also president, continuously, for ten years, of Branch No. 6, C. K. W.,
and finally refused re-election. He was a delegate to the state
council, chairman of the reserve fund commission appointed by the state
council, and inaugurated the present reserve fund provision.

On the 12th of October, 1869, Judge Moeskes was married to Maria P.
Kamps of Appleton, the youngest of thirteen children. Her father was a
native of the same village in Prussia as Judge Moeskes, and a tanner by
trade. To Judge and Mrs. Moeskes were born seven children, four of whom
are dead--two in infancy, Agnes, in 1892, at the age of twenty-one, and
William, a promising lad of sixteen, in 1893. The surviving children
are Mrs. Edward Sacksteder, whose husband is of the drug firm of Kamps
& Sacksteder; Herman E., a stenographer, and Eliza C., who

[image: GERHARD TILLMAN MOESKES.]

is at present the official stenographer of the county court. Mrs.
Moeskes died August 14th, 1894. The judge was remarried August 27th,
1895, to Eliza Peters of Manitowoc.

REYNOLDS, Edwin, one of the ablest mechanical engineers in the United
States, is second vice-president and superintendent of the Reliance
works in Milwaukee, and has acquired a world-wide reputation for the
originality of his many mechanical devices and for his skill in
constructional work. Among the early settlers of Rhode Island was one
William Reynolds, who came to America from Gloucestershire, England,
and settled in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1637. Descended from this
pioneer, in direct line, was one Christopher Reynolds, who was born in
Frenchtown, Rhode Island, July 11th, 1790. In or about 1810 he removed
to Mansfield, Connecticut, where he married Charissa Huntington, and
where on the 23rd of March, 1831, Edwin Reynolds was born. Among his
ancestors were those who became noted for their love of liberty and
their independence

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[image: EDWIN REYNOLDS.]

in thought and action. One Theophilus Whaley was an officer in
Cromwell's army, and was present at the exertion of King Charles I;
another, Herodias Hicks, a Quakeress, was scourged by order of Governor
Endicott of Massachusetts, because of the "heresy" of her religious
opinions. With such an ancestry it is not surprising that Mr. Reynolds
early showed a disposition to think and act for himself, in all matters
pertaining to the activities of life, and to strike out on original
lines in his calling, and not to take for granted as true theories
which have been generally accepted, but which have not been put to
actual comparative tests.

Having received the ordinary education of the common schools, Mr.
Reynolds was apprenticed to trade of machinist in Mansfield,
Connecticut, in which capacity he served for three years. With his
trade fairly learned, he went to work as a machinist in shops in
Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio; and, finally took up his residence
in Aurora, Indiana, as superintendent of the shops of Steadman & Co.,
who were principally engaged in the building of engines, saw mills
and drainage pumps for Mississippi plantations. The outbreak of the
civil war seriously interrupted this business, and Mr. Reynolds
returned to Connecticut. Here and in Boston and New York he was engaged
at his trade for the next six years, when he took the step which led to
the establishing of his reputation as a machinist, and laid the
foundation of his financial success. He removed to Providence, R. I.,
and entered the employ of the Corliss Steam Engine company. In 1871 he
was made general superintendent of the works, in which position he
remained until 1877, when he resigned and accepted the position of
general superintendent of Edward P. Allis & Co.'s Reliance works, which
position, with powers and responsibilities enlarged, he still holds.
His reputation as a machinist had been constantly growing, and some of
his work on exhibition at the Centennial exposition directed Mr. Allis'
attention to him, and no doubt was the cause of his present position
being offered to him. He speedily won the confidence of Allis not only
in his mechanical skill and genius, but in his integrity and manhood,
and this confidence was strengthened as time passed. Upon the death of
Mr. Allis, Mr. Reynolds became, through the will, one of the trustees
of the state; and, when, later, the business was reorganized and the
Allis company formed, he was chosen one of its directors and second
vice-president. Besides these positions, he is president of the
Milwaukee Boiler company and the Daisy Roller Mill Co., and a director
in the German-American bank.

Mr. Reynolds is a thorough student of mechanics; and, while he is in a
measure conservative in regard to established rules and principles, he
does not blindly adhere to them, but, in all his mechanical work, does
not hesitate to question what is old or adopt what is new if his
judgment approves, or his investigations warrant. The engines which he
has constructed for waterworks are novel in design, beautiful in form
and of great power. He devised an ore stamp in which was discarded

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what was supposed to be a well-established principle, and it has proved
to be such a success in operation that it has revolutionized the
construction of these mills. In short, he is an engineer both by nature
and education, and was one of the three mechanics in the United States
(not exhibitors) to whom special medals were awarded for the excellence
of their designs of machinery exhibited by others.

The board of trustees of the University of Wisconsin thought so highly
of Mr. Reynolds' abilities that it conferred upon him, in 1895, the
honorary degree of LL. D., and certain it is that he is indeed a doctor
of the laws of construction and some at least of the laws of matter.

AUSTIN, William A., state senator from the Fifth district, was born in
Binghamton, New York, on the 22nd of October, 1859. His education was
obtained in the public schools of New York and Wisconsin, the family
removing to the latter state in 1869, and settling in Portage. In 1871
he came to Milwaukee, and some years thereafter he entered the office
of Joshua Stark as a student at law. In 1879 he passed the examination
and was admitted to practice. The next year he was appointed by W. C.
Williams his assistant in the office of district attorney. His next
official position was that of school commissioner, to which he was
appointed in the spring of 1889. The following year R. N. Austin, then
city attorney, appointed him assistant; and, upon the election of the
city attorney to a judgeship, he was appointed the judge's successor as
the legal representative of the city. In 1892 he was elected to the
assembly from the Sixteenth ward of Milwaukee, and received the vote of
the Republican minority for speaker. In 1894 he was elected senator
from the Fifth district by a plurality of 2,704 votes. As a legislator
Mr. Austin took a prominent part, having places on leading committees,
and being an intelligent and ready debater. Among the bills introduced
by him were the ones relating

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to the civil service in the city and county of Milwaukee. He also
introduced the bill providing for the city park system in Milwaukee,
bills for the city hall and library building, a bill removing the
public school system from political influence and giving to the school
board a voice in the selection of school sites and plans for school
buildings. He has also favored the proposition to tax corporations
whose property consists largely of franchises given by the public a
percentage upon their gross earnings sufficiently large to equal the
tax upon holdings that are tangible; and he introduced a bill, in 1893,
for that purpose. He raised the point in the circuit court on the
application of North Milwaukee for incorporation as a village, that the
village incorporation law, which has been a general law of the state
since 1859, was unconstitutional, and the supreme court sustained this
position. He also raised the question of constitutionality regarding
the law of 1887, providing for the arrest and punishment of habitual
drunkards, and this view of the law was also sustained by the supreme
court.

As a lawyer Mr. Austin has been very

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active and successful. As the representative of the city he conducted
its legal affairs with energy and skill and its interest were carefully
protected. He had for partners at different times A. C. Brazee, Col.
Goodwin, Judge Austin, H. C. Runkel, Charles H. Hamilton and Herman
Fehr. He has tried many important cases, and at one time had something
of a reputation as a criminal lawyer; but of late has avoided this
branch of professional work, and devoted himself almost exclusively to
civil cases. He has frequently ben opposed in the trial of long-
contested cases by one or more of the ablest members of the bar, and
though unassisted and alone has generally sustained his reputation as a
vigorous and successful advocate. In the trial of cases he never keeps
notes, but relies entirely upon his memory, which rarely fails him. He
also has the faculty when leaving his office of leaving his business
behind him, and not permitting it to interfere with his hours of rest
and recreation.

Mr. Austin has always been a Republican, and takes a prominent part in
all local party contests, and on all local questions has not failed to
make his voice heard and his influence felt. He is a member of the
Calumet club and a Knight of Pythias. He was married in 1881 to Janet
F. McLean, and they have four children--three boys and a girl.

WINKLER, Frederick C., one of the best known, ablest and most respected
members of the Milwaukee bar, is a native of Germany, but had spent
most of his life in Milwaukee. He was born in Bremen on the 15th of
March, 1838, the son of Carl and Elizabeth, nee Overbeck, Winkler. The
father came to Milwaukee in 1842, and engaged in the drug business. The
family followed soon after, and young Winkler received his education in
Milwaukee. After leaving school he devoted himself to teaching for a
time, but took up the study of law in the office of the Hon. H. L.
Palmer, now president of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company. 
In 1858 he entered the law office of Abbott, Gregory & Pinney, in 
Madison, as clerk; here he continued his studies, and, in April, 1859, 
was admitted to the bar in the circuit court of Dane county. Returning 
to Milwaukee he began the practice of his profession, meeting at once 
with fair success; but, the war of the rebellion, which interrupted the 
career of so many young men, dissipated, for the time, all thought of 
professional eminence. When, in the summer of 1862, the ravages of the 
war demanded re-enforcement of our armies in the field, and President 
Lincoln had called for "300,000 more," he, in conjunction with several 
young friends, recruited a company of volunteers, which, in September, 
1862, was mustered into the service as Company B of the Twenty-sixth 
regiment of Wisconsin volunteer infantry. His character and standing is 
shown by the fact that he was from the outset and by common consent 
selected as captain of the company. The regiment was ordered to the 
front, and left the state on the 6th of October, 1862. It was assigned 
to the Army of the Potomac, and became a part of the Second brigade of 
the Third division of the Eleventh Army corps, then under the command of 
General Sigel. Arrived on the field, another evidence was given of the 
confidence inspired by this young man, in the fact that he was almost 
immediately assigned to duty as judge-advocate at the headquarters of 
the corps, in which position he served until the following spring, when 
he was assigned to duty on the staff of Gen. Schurz; and in this 
capacity he participated in the memorable battles of Chancellorsville 
and Gettysburg. On the first day of the last named battle his regiment 
lost so many of its officers by death or wounds, he requested to be 
returned to it; and, being the ranking officer fit for duty, the command 
of the regiment devolved upon him, and, thus, as acting commander of the 
regiment he fought through the remaining two days of this sanguinary 
struggle. Soon after this battle the regiment was transferred to the 
Army of the Cumberland.

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On the 8th of October, 1863, Col. Jacobs having been ordered to
Wisconsin on recruiting service, and shortly afterwards resigning,
Captain Winkler succeeded to the permanent command of the regiment. He
was successively commissioned major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel,
and was in command of the regiment until the close of the war. His army
record throughout was one of the most useful and brilliant of the many
whose services reflected honor upon the state and the military history
of the nation.

His service in the armies of his country ended, Gen. Winkler turned
gladly to the pursuits of peace. He formed a partnership with A. R. R.
Butler, then a leader of the Wisconsin bar. This partnership continued
until 1873, when he entered the firm of Jenkins, Elliot & Winkler, of
which J. G. Jenkins, now judge of the United States circuit court, was
the senior member. When Mr. Jenkins was elevated to the bench, the new
firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum & Vilas was formed, which is
now one of the most prominent legal firms in the city.

Gen. Winkler has been a hard worker in his profession and an earnest
student of the principles upon which the legal structure is based, and,
as a consequence, is considered one of the safest legal advisers at the
bar of the state. He has exhibited the same tenacity of purpose, the
same indomitable will in the trial of cases that made him successful as
a soldier, but he is always scrupulously honest in all his acts and
never resorts to the tricks of the pettifogger or hangs his cases on
mere technicalities.

Always a zealous Republican, he has not shaped his political course
with a view to obtaining office or party favor. He was once a candidate
for congress, but was defeated. He is a man who by his character and
his attainments would make a most useful and able lawmaker or a safe
and accomplished judge. He has served as a member of the board of city
school commissioners, and been frequently suggested for office, but has
never put

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forth any effort to secure its honors for himself. He is always and
justly prominent in all movements for the promotion of the public
welfare and the guarding of the good name of the city.

He has a charming wife and family. Nearly all of the children have
reached adult age, and some of them have married, and the family name,
therefore, is in a fair way to be honored is another generation.

KREUTZER, Andrew Lawrence, a leading lawyer of Wausau, is the son of
Andrew Kreutzer, who came to Wisconsin with his father in 1835, when he
was but one year of age. The senior Kreutzer was well-to-do in Germany,
and came over with other prominent Germans who settled in Milwaukee
when it was but a hamlet. The place had then such little promise of its
present greatness and beauty that Mr. Kreutzer passed it by and settled
on a farm near Granville, twelve miles from Milwaukee. The grandparents
on the mother's side came from Strassburg, in the French province of
Alsace-Lorraine, in 1849.

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The name of the family was Househalder, and they were wealthy and well
connected in the old country. They also came direct to Wisconsin and
settled near Granville. The father of A. L. Kreutzer was considered a
wealthy man and was prominent in the new country; but financial
reverses led him to settle in Marathon county, where he founded a
little colony.

A. L. Kreutzer was born August 30th, 1862, in the old homestead, but
his parents removed to Grafton, Wisconsin, when he was but a year old,
his father at that time being interested in a flour mill and lime kilns
there. He was, however, owing to financial reverses and a large family,
unable to give his children many educational advantages, and so, A. L.
Kreutzer, at the age of fourteen, was apprenticed to a man who made a
specialty of fine saddlery. He served two years in this position at
four dollars a month; but the work was not to his liking, and he gave
it up, and took private instruction with a view of fitting himself for
teaching school. He accomplished his purpose and taught for several
years, employing all his spare time in preparing himself
for the law. Having saved a little money, he began the study of law in
the office of Judge Crosby of Wausau, in the spring of 1888. After
Judge Crosby's death, he went into the office of the Wausau Law and
Land association, remaining there until the fall of 1889, when he
entered the senior class in the University of Wisconsin. Passing the
state board examination in January, 1890, he was admitted to the bar,
and was associated with the Wausau Law and Land association until June,
1891, when he opened an office for himself. His practice grew so
rapidly that it became necessary to have a partner, and, in the spring
of 1892, E.L. Bump, a prominent attorney in that part of the state, was
associated with him, under the firm name of Bump & Kreutzer. Business
still increasing made more help desirable, and M. B. Rosenbery, a
graduate of the law department of the University of Michigan, came into
the firm, and Bump, Kreutzer & Rosenbery have taken part in nearly all
the important cases tried in the county.

Politically Mr. Kreutzer is a Republican, although his father was a
staunch Democrat. In 1893 he was elected alderman from a strongly
Democratic ward, and was elected district attorney of Marathon county
in 1894 by 800 majority, and re-elected in 1896, although the county is
usually Democratic by a large plurality. He was appointed a
commissioner from this state by Gov. Upham to the Atlanta exposition in
October, 1895, and attended the exposition in this capacity as
commissioner. He was appointed on Gov. Scofield's staff in January with
the rank of colonel, and judge advocate general of the Wisconsin
National Guard.

Mr. Kreutzer is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order, a charter member
of the Wausau Lodge of Elks, and also a member of the Knights of
Pythias. As to religion he is a member of the Universalist church of
Wausau.

October 7th, 1891, he was married to Mary Eliza Knox, daughter of
Samuel G. Knox, a wealthy and prominent lumberman of Wausau

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at the time. He came of a prominent New England family, descendants of
the Scotch Knoxes, of whom the celebrated preacher, John Knox, was the
most distinguished representative. Thomas W. Knox, the author, was
Samuel G. Knox's cousin. The Knoxes, as might have been expected from
their fearless, liberty-loving character, took a prominent part in the
Revolutionary war. Mrs. Kreutzer graduated from the state university in
the class of 1887. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kreutzer are Ruth Knox
and Samuel Knox.

Mr. Kreutzer, for so young a man, has achieved an exceptional
reputation for ability as a lawyer and a citizen. He has been
prosperous in his profession, and has kept himself abreast of the times
by study and extensive travel.

LOCKE, William Henry, clerk of the circuit and superior courts of
Douglas county, and a resident of Superior, is the son of John and
Susan Ross Locke, the latter of whom was born in Scotland. W. H. Locke
was born on the 29th of March, 1859, in the village of Malone, Franklin
county, N. Y. His parents were in straightened circumstances, and when
he was only ten years of age he suffered an irreparable loss in the
death of his mother, who left six children, of whom he was the oldest.
He was adopted by an elderly couple and lived with them, on a farm,
until he was seventeenth years of age, becoming familiar with farm
work, and gaining physical strength and a self-reliant character--no
small capital for a young man beginning the battle of life. After
leaving his foster parents, he went to Massachusetts, remaining there
four years. Thence he went into Connecticut, and after a residence
there of four years, came to Milwaukee in 1883. Here he remained for
six years, two of which he served as deputy county clerk.

On the 20th of May, 1885, he was married to Miss Lizzie L. Monroe of
Milwaukee, and from this marriage came four bright children--two boys
and two girls.

Mr. Locke received a common school education,

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and that he has supplemented by attending night schools, home study and
persistent general reading, and is thus thoroughly fitted for the
responsible and somewhat difficult duties of his present official
position. He removed to Superior in February, 1889; and, engaging in
business there, accumulated considerable property, but lost the greater
part of it in the decline in the value of property which occurred in
1893. But he was not a man to be crushed by misfortune of that kind. By
nature hopeful though familiar with the darker aspects of life, and a
capable, earnest worker, positions opened to him, and in 1895 he was
appointed clerk and deputy in the sheriff's office, the duties of which
position he discharged with ability and fidelity until January, 1897,
when he entered upon the duties of clerk of the circuit and superior
courts of Douglas county, to which office he was elected as a
Republican in November, 1896.

As a man and an official he is widely and favorably known and justly
popular with the voters of his county, because of his ability and his
unquestionable integrity.

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HAY, Samuel M., the leading banker of Oshkosh and one of the foremost
financiers of the northwest, is of Scotch descent and a native of
Pennsylvania, having been born in Erie county, August 7th, 1825. His
paternal grandfather came from Scotland to America and settled in Havre
de Grace, Maryland, and there John Hay, the father of Samuel, was born.
The mother of Samuel Hay was before marriage, Nancy Laughlin, a native
of Washington county, Pennsylvania.

John Hay was a prosperous farmer, and desiring to give his son, Samuel,
a liberal education, purchased for the boy a scholarship in Allegheny
College, Meadville, Pennsylvania; but the boy had a taste for business
rather than books; and, upon the completion of the course in the public
schools, sought and obtained his father's consent to learn a trade. Not
many boys would have made the choice that young Hay did, but events
proved that he knew what he was about--he did not lightly regard the
benefits of an education, but for him the practical knowledge to be
gained in a trade seemed the more to be desired. He had none of the
foolish notions of many young men about the lack of respectability of a 
trade. Accordingly, he was apprenticed to a tinsmith, and at the end of 
four and a half years he had acquired not only a technical knowledge of 
the trade, but had leaned much more--had become familiar with the 
nature, of tin, copper and sheet iron. With this capital in head and 
hands he was prepared to begin life for himself, and the new west was 
the field for his ambition. He came to Whitewater, Wisconsin, in 1845, 
and entered the employ of S. C. Hall, whom he had known in Pennsylvania, 
receiving one dollar a day and board--not very liberal wages, but 
sufficient to pay his expenses and leave something beside, which, unlike 
most young men, he carefully saved. After a year he went home for a 
visit. Crossing Lake Michigan by steamer, he made his way by stage to 
Kalamazoo, where he, for the first time in his life, saw and traveled 
over a railroad, a fact that forcibly illustrates the rapid development 
of this western country.

After a brief visit to his parents he returned to Whitewater; and, in
the fall of that year, he visited Oshkosh, then a little village in the
woods, but the young man was pleased with its prospects, and determined
to locate three as soon as he should be able to enter business for
himself. Two years more he spent in Whitewater, but during this time he
visited other localities in the territory, among them the lead region
in the southwestern portion, which many, at that time, thought would be
the chief business point in the northwest. Mr. Hay, however, remained
true to his predilection in favor of Oshkosh, and in 1848, in company
with Eli C. Hall, a brother of his employer at Whitewater, opened a
general hardware store in the embryo city on Lake Winnebago. The
village was small and so was the store, but both grew; and ere long Mr.
Hay bought out Mr. Hall, and not long after took for partner a Mr.
Clark, and the business was conducted under the firm name of Hay &
clark until 1862, when Mr. Clark retired, and a year later Mr. Hay took
his younger brother into partnership, and the firm became Hay &

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Brother, and so continued until 1892, when the business having so
increased that the Hay Hardware company was organized, with S. M. Hay
as president, and his brother as treasurer. The business thus
established by Mr. Hay has continued for forty-nine years, something
very unusual for this western, country, where change seems to be the
order of all things. A generation has passed since the doors of the
little store were first opened, and the patrons of the great store to-
day are largely the children of the first customers.

Mr. Hay's business had so thrived under his careful and judicious
management that he had the means for investing in other enterprises;
and, when in 1864, the First National Bank of Oshkosh was organized, he
took a considerable amount of its stock, was made one of its directors,
and a year after he was elected president, and since then has been its
chief executive officer. In 1884 the charter of the bank expired by
limitation, and it was reorganized as the National bank of Oshkosh, Mr.
Hay being re-elected its president. Its capital stock is $200,000, its
surplus $100,000, its undivided profits $60,000, and its deposits
aggregate over a million and a quarter of dollars. The standing of this
bank among other financial institutions stamp Mr. Hay as a man of
integrity not only, but as a financier of rare sagacity and fertile in
resources. He has been president of the Wisconsin Bankers' association
and vice-president of the National association. His material interests
are not confined to Oshkosh; he is interested in banks at Neenah,
Appleton, Green Bay, Fond du Lac, Berlin, Milwaukee and Chicago; and in
other business enterprises in other cities.

A Republican in politics, he has been active as a citizen in the
political campaigns and has done much for the success of his party. He
has been alderman and mayor of Oshkosh, member of both houses of the
state legislature; and, as may be inferred from a knowledge of his
experience and success in ordinary business affairs, he was a most
useful legislator. He has also been much interested in educational 
matters, has served as one of the commissioners of the public schools of 
Oshkosh; and was, for fifteen years, one of the board of regents of the 
state normal schools. So highly has his judgment and his knowledge of 
practical affairs been regarded that President Harrison, in 1892, 
appointed him one of the commission to examine and report upon the 
United States mints.

While an interested attendant upon the Congregational church of
Oshkosh, and a liberal supporter of it, his contributions have not been
confined to that organization, but have been bestowed upon other
kindred societies, as he believes them all sources of public good. He
has traveled much in this county, Mexico and Europe, and has been a
most intelligent observer and student of all he has seen, and has
gained much from his travels that has been of use to him as a man of
affairs.

In 1852 he was married to Miss Maria E. Spaulding of Oshkosh, but had
the misfortune to lose her by death in 1875. Two sons and a daughter
survive her.

BRAZEE, Alvin Calkins, district attorney of Milwaukee county, was born
in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee county, on the 24th of July, 1855. His father
was Benson Brazee, a native of Fayetteville, Onondaga county, New York,
who came to Wauwatosa in 1835, and purchased government land, which he
transformed into a fine farm, upon which he lived until 1870, when he
sold it and removed to Winnebago county, Wisconsin, but ten years later
came back to Milwaukee, where he resided until his death in 1886. His
mother was Althea F. Neal, a native of Hudson, Columbia county, New
York, but came to Wisconsin when sixteen years of age, and taught in
the public schools for some time prior to her marriage. She was a woman
of more than ordinary ability and graces, and as teacher and mother
exerted a marked influence upon those with whom she was associated. She
and her husband were, for many

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years, members of the Congregational church at Wauwatosa, and were
active, practical Christians. She died in April, 1880, in the fifty-
second year of her age. She was the daughter of Captain John F. Neal,
an officer in the United States army during the war of 1812-14.

Mr. Brazee received his education in the public school of Wauwatosa and
at Ripon College. He left the latter institution, however, before
graduation. He learned easily and had a retentive memory, which enabled
him to keep up with his class without serious effort and left him time
for such pranks as love of fun father than love of books suggested. He
was a rather precocious boy, entering school when five years of age and
college at fifteen. After leaving college he tried various occupations-
-in fact nearly everything but preaching; but finally took up the study
of law in 1876. His studies were pursued principally in the office of
Finch & Barber of Oshkosh; and it was at that city where he was
admitted to the bar, at the age of twenty-two years. After admission he
practiced his profession for a time at Oshkosh, in connection with 
Charles W. Felker of that city. In 1879 he went to Superior, Nebraska, 
where he was in practice for a year or more, when he returned to 
Wisconsin, and settled in Milwaukee. He opened an office in the city, 
and practiced in connection with Clarence S. Brown, afterwards district 
attorney; then with V. W. Seely, who later held the position of 
assistant city attorney. In 1893 he formed a partnership with A. W. Bell 
and J. H. Stover, which firm continued until January 1st, 1895, when Mr. 
Stover retired, and the firm became Brazee & Bell, at which time Mr. 
Brazee entered upon the duties of district attorney. Prior to his 
election as district attorney; he was interested in the defense of many 
criminal cases in the county, being engaged as counsel for fourteen 
persons charged with murder. Of these but one was convicted of the crime 
charged; four were convicted of a less crime and the others were 
acquitted. Outside of this work he was engaged in general practice, and 
met with as much success as young lawyers usually do. He has applied 
himself strictly to work in hand, and the fact that he has been twice 
chosen the county's legal representative is evidence that the voters 
have confidence in his ability and his integrity, and that the legal 
business of the county will be safe in his hands. He has a good law 
library, and many books relating to celebrating cases which are of value 
to lawyers in general practice. He also has a large and well-selected 
library of miscellaneous books, in the reading of which he spends all 
the time which he can spare from his legal and official business.

Mr. Brazee was married in Milwaukee on the 10th of August, 1884, to
Miss Alice M. Beaver of Chippewa Falls, a public school teacher and a
lady of culture and refinement. They have one daughter, Enola, now
seven years of age, of whom they are naturally proud.

In politics Mr. Brazee is a Republican by inheritance, his father
having been successively a Whig, Abolitionist and Republican,

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in the evolution of parties. He has given of his time to championing
the principles and tickets of the party in all the campaigns since he
settled in the city. His present office of district attorney is the
only one he has ever held. His first election, in 1894, was by a
plurality of 6,900; and he was re-elected in the fall of 1896 by a
plurality of 8,000. He has no political aspirations, nor would he seek
political preferment outside of his profession.

Mr. Brazee has made a very efficient district attorney--in fact, one of
the most efficient that the county has ever had. One of Milwaukee's
judges, whose experience in such matters covers a wide range, says, in
substance, that he is an able lawyer, prepares his cases with great
skill, omits nothing that will strengthen them before the court or the
jury, and in short is the best district attorney which the county has
had in ten years. Still a young man, he has a promising future before
him, and is likely to reach greater prominence than he has yet
achieved.

SEAMAN, William Henry, a resident of Sheboygan and judge of the United
States district court for the Eastern district of Wisconsin, was born
in New Berlin, formerly Milwaukee country, now Waukesha, on the 15th of
November, 1842, the son of Williams and Arelisle Crane Seaman. Williams
Seaman was a merchant and harness-maker, who came to Milwaukee from
Buffalo in 1841. A stock of goods which he had shipped to the former
city was lost en route. In 1842 he erected a saw mill at New Berlin,
but it was burned within a year. He removed to Milwaukee in 1843,
thence to Ceresco, in 1844, and to Sheboygan in 1845, which was thence-
forth his home until his death.

William H. Seaman received a common school education in Sheboygan, and
then entered the Times printing office there in 1858, remaining there
until September 19th, 1861, when he enlisted for service against the
rebellion,

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in Company H, First Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and served to the
close of the war. While he was learning the trade of printer his
evenings were spent in reading law under the direction of C. W. Ellis
of Sheboygan. After his discharge from the army he returned home, and,
in 1866, resumed the study of law with J. A. Bentley. In June, 1868, he
was admitted to the bar, and entered into the practice of his
profession at Sheboygan in co-partnership with Mr. Bentley, his former
preceptor, under the firm name of Bentley & Seaman. Subsequently, Mr.
Bentley, having been appointed commissioner of pensions, Mr. Seaman
formed a partnership with Francis Williams, which continued until his
appointment to the position to United States district judge. His
practice extended throughout the eastern portion of the state and into
northern Michigan, and to the highest courts both state and national.

In politics he is a Democrat, but has not been active in party
campaigns or held any political office. He has been major of Sheboygan,
president of the Sheboygan school board, a member of the board of
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state university, president of the State Bar association, and for the
past four years judge of the United States district court for the
Eastern district of Wisconsin, having been appointed April 3rd, 1893.

Judge Seaman was married to Mary A. Peat at Glens Falls, N. Y., on
December 17th, 1868, and they have three children, namely: Arelisle,
Charles and Mary.

Since Judge Seaman took his seat on the bench he has been industrious
and studious in the discharge of his judicial duties, and has made a
very favorable impression upon those who have practiced before him. He
has been called to sit in important cases, and his rulings have
generally been approved as just and in accordance with the law. Still
comparatively a young man he has the time and ability to gain an
enviable reputation as a jurist.

BLOODGOOD, Francis, for many years a prominent lawyer of Milwaukee, was 
educated at the Albany Academy, then in the first rank of the academic
schools of the country, and was prepared to enter the junior class in
Union College. But changing his purpose, commenced the study of law,
and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one. He removed with
his father's family to Milwaukee in June, 1854. In August following he
formed a law partnership with O. L. Stewart, and afterwards with
Wheeler H. Peckham; but, on the latter's return to New York, he
continued practice alone until 1870, when he was appointed register in
bankruptcy, and held that office until 1882. The bankruptcy law was
repealed in 1878, except as to pending business, which required four
years to close. On account of his then impaired health, Mr. Bloodgood
withdrew from active practice until 1887, when he formed, with his son,
Francis, Jr., just admitted to the bar, the partnership of Bloodgood &
Bloodgood; succeeded by that of Bloodgood, Bloodgood & Kemper, when in
1888, his nephew, Jackson B. Kemper, entered the firm. William J.
Turner was associated with the firm from 1893 to 1896, when he retired.
Wheeler P. Bloodgood, Mr. Bloodgood's youngest son, had been taken in
in 1894. The firm Bloodgood, Kemper & Bloodgood is engaged in an 
extensive collection, corporation and general law business, having a
force of twenty persons.

Mr. Bloodgood represented numerous parties in the prosecution of the
railroad farm mortgages, which, in his earlier professional career,
engrossed the attention of the courts. He was counsel in similiter
litem in the supreme court in the case which determined that the notes
which the mortgages were given to secure were negotiable, under the
law, thus shutting off the defenses of fraud, claimed by the farmers,
the payers in the notes, against the railroad companies. He tried
below, and argued in the supreme court, the case in which the state
statute, taking from the court, in those mortgage foreclosure, the
power to try the facts, and conferring it upon the jury, was declared
unconstitutional; virtually ending this entire litigation. He tried in
the United States court the case which first determined in this state
the liability of municipalities upon bonds issued in aid of rail and
plank road companies. He was the attorney and counsel in the first
creditor's bill filed in the state against a railroad corporation and
its directors. He succeeded in this case, and subsequently in several
other notable suits of a like character. His most novel litigation was
a suit in equity in which the circuit court of the state (Judge Johnson
presiding) enjoined the parties from proceeding in and practically
determined a suit at law in the supreme court in England. Mr. Bloodgood
went there to collect the testimony for the trial here.

As register in bankruptcy, Mr. Bloodgood disposed of more than five
hundred cases; most of which originated in the failures occasioned by
the financial crisis of 1873; and, as the records show, their
disposition involved the determination by the register of some fifteen
hundred cases in law, equity and admiralty, including, among many of
interest

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and importance, one which went on appeal to the United States circuit
court. It involved the question, whether money of the state, after
deposit in a bank in the name of a warden of the state prison, was, on
the bankruptcy of the bank, a credit to the state, or to the warden
individually. The United States circuit court sustained the decision of
the register, which was, that under the then existing state statutes,
the credit was to the warden individually.

Commissioner Bloodgood's dockets show that he has held nearly twenty-
four hundred criminal examinations. The most notable were those against
the perpetrators of the enormous whisky frauds of 1876; the obstruction
of the mails, an incident to the great city riot of 1886, suppressed by
Governor Rusk; the widespread Gun Wah fraud of 1890, effected through
the mails; a Canadian extradition case, which went up to the circuit
court on certiorari; the Debs strike of 1894; prosecutions for murder,
piracy and other capital offenses on the great lakes as high seas, and
for desertions and mutinies on government and merchant vessels.

Until 1876, when the popular movement challenging the propriety of
office-holders under the United States taking part in politics
commenced, Mr. Bloodgood, as a staunch Republican, was active in the
interest and furtherance of that party; frequently acting as a delegate
to city; county and state conventions. He was, for several consecutive
years, secretary of the Union club, the political organization of the
city representing the Union party; which was the usual name in this
state of the party supporting the administration during the war, and
until the second Grand campaign. Buron Payne and Edward Solomon were
president of this club, which was composed of the young men; and gave
place to a new but similar organization in the campaign of 1872; in
which Henry C. Payne was the most prominent organizer and leader.

Under a family compact, Mr. Bloodgood, of three brothers, remained at
home during the civil war, the others entering the army, on the

[image: FRANCIS BLOODGOOD.]

first call. One, Edward, volunteered here, as a private in the First
Wisconsin infantry. He was afterwards appointed lieutenant-colonel, and
rose to the colonelcy of the Twenty-second Wisconsin infantry. As such
he participated in the Atlanta campaign, and marched with Sherman to
the sea. At the close of the war, he was commissioned a captain in the
regular army. He was breveted major and lieutenant-colonel in the
regular army for gallant conduct during the war. He was retired in
1870, on the reduction of the army to one-half its force. The other
brother, Wilkins, at twenty years of age, volunteered at Detroit, where
he was on a visit, in the First Michigan infantry. He was at the battle
of Bull Run; was with McClellan during the Peninsular campaign; rose to
the rank of captain, and lost his life at the battle of Manassas. He
had a military burial from St. Paul's church, in this city, at which
General Winkler, who had been a schoolmate, commanded the escort.

At the outbreak of the war, Mr. Bloodgood, who had, in 1856, been one
of the originators of the Milwaukee Light Guard, the first native
American military organization of the state,

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was active in organizing the Scott Guard, of which he was the first
commandant; intended as a school for the soldier, form the ranks of
which some thirty officers were commissioned for the war; among the
most notable, Gen. F. C. Winkler. Hon. Winfield Smith was among the
most prominent members, and was for a long time the orderly sergeant.

The Scott Guard was called out in the bank riots of 1862, and on the
lynching of the negro murderer in the same year, during the term of
Sheriff Larkin.

On the call for the hundred days' men in 1864, primarily to relieve the
troops guarding the lines of communication, to enable them to take part
in Grant's campaign against Lee, but who were ultimately required to
render more severe service, Mr. Bloodgood was elected captain of the
company formed in this city from the sons of prominent citizens. This
action was publicly endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce, and the
appointment tendered by Major Talmadge, whose sons were in the company.
But for the reasons above stated, Mr. Bloodgood was constrained to
decline.

Mr. Bloodgood is seventh in descent from Francis Bloodgood (Francois
Bloetgoet), 1635 to 1676, who came from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1658,
and settled at Flushing, Long Island. He was secretary to the Dutch
commissioners to the Swedes on the east bank of the Delaware--territory
recently conquered by the Dutch. When the Dutch, in 1673, retook New
York, changing the name of the province back to New Netherlands, and of
the city to New Amsterdam, he adhered to his native country, was
schepin of his town; also a member of the governor's council, as the
representative of the several towns on Long Island. He was
commissioned, and during the war between Holland and England, held the
office of chief military and civil executive of Long Island; the
outpost of defense against the English fleet and forces. As a member of
the council of the Dutch governor, Anthony Colve, he participated in
the negotiations for the surrender of the province to the English
authorities at the treaty of peach between England and Holland, in
which the latter received territory in Africa exchange for the province
of New York or New Netherlands. In 1676 he was killed in battle with
the Indians.

The Bloodgood family, in direct line, remained in Flushing for three
generations. In 1754 it removed to Albany, and lived there until 1854--
also for three generations--prominent as citizens and in the municipal
government. One of the second generation there, William, was an officer
in the New York line during the war of the revolution. Under the
leadership of Governor George Clinton, members of the family were
prominent in the political controversies of the interim between the
close of the war and the adoption of the national constitution, and did
not wholly abandon this anti-federal connection until the removal by
President Jackson of the national deposits from the United States bank
in 1833. One of the family was a member of the Albany regency, for the
first third of this century the standing central organization of the
democratic party. Francis Bloodgood (1768-1840), Mr. Bloodgood's
grandfather, was active in organizing, promoting and maintaining the
general business enterprises of the city of Albany. He was president of
the New York State bank, Albany Insurance company and Great Western
Turnpike company. The latter--organized prior to 1800--was, in its day,
a great highway to western New York. He was interested, as an original
and continuous stockholder, in several of the manufactories which
sprang up in various parts of the state under the early national
protective policy. He was, from 1798 to 1813, secretary of the board of
regents of the state university, and mayor of Albany from 1832 to 1836.
At his inauguration he paid the debts of, and thus released all the
poor debtors then confined in the Albany jail, under the existing
insolvent laws.

William Bloodgood (1801 to 1874), the father of the subject of these
memoirs, graduated at West Point, and until 1837 was an officer in the
United States army, when he

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resigned and returned to Albany. He died at Nashotah, Wisconsin, in
1874.

Mr. Bloodgood was born at Fort Howard, Green Bay, in this state--then
Michigan territory--on the 22nd of December, 1827, while his father was
in the army; his grandfather, Major William Whistler, being commandant
of the fort and Indian superintendent.

Mr. Bloodgood's family traditions, on his mother's side, are all
connected with the history and progress of the great northwest
territory. Her great-grandfather, in that line, Major John Whistler,
was with the Maryland contingent at the Indian battle of Miami, the
defeat of General St. Claire, then governor of the territory--the
hottest fight on the continent until the war of the rebellion. Major
Whistler, an intimate friend of William Henry Harrison, afterwards
secretary and governor of the territory, was, in 1791 with Harrison
commissioned in the same company in the first regiment organized in the
United States army. He, and, in the course of events, his sons William
and John--the latter killed in battle--also officers in the United
States army, took part in all the Indian wars in the northwest
territory; and also in all the battles fought in that region in the war
of 1812. William Whistler, who rose to the rank of colonel in the
United States army, was, up to 1848, constantly in command of forts in
the region which formed the northwest territory--at Fort Wayne,
Mackinac, Green Bay, Chicago, Detroit--except when absent in the
Seminole and Mexican wars. Major John Whistler built Fort Dearborn,
Chicago, in 1801, and his son Lewis was the first white male child born
on the site of Chicago. Major George W. Whistler, a son of John, as a
junior officer in the United States engineer corps, assisted in making
the first surveys of the chain of the great lakes. He became one of the
most distinguished railroad engineers of his time, and was selected by
Nicholas, czar of Russia, to build the railroad from Moscow to St.
Petersburg. James Whistler, the artist, is his son.

Mr. Bloodgood, in 1859, married Josephine, daughter of Joseph S. Colt,
who came with his family from Albany to this city in 1853-4. He died in
1857. Mrs. Bloodgood died in 1893 Mr. Bloodgood has three sons, Francis
and Wheeler Peckham, his law partners, and Joseph Colt, resident
surgeon at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. He has three
daughters, Miriam (Mrs. Wm. Passmore), Henrietta and Margaret.

TRIPP, J. Stephens, a lawyer and banker of Prairie du Sac, is the son
of Silas Tripp, who was the son of Benjamin Tripp and grandson of
Ezekiel Tripp, who was a noted Quaker speaker of Dutchess county, N.
Y., prior to and during the revolutionary war. He, with other
"Friends," settled in the town of Duanesburg, in Schenectady county, N.
Y., then a wilderness, and formed a Quaker community, erected a meeting
house, and the village which grew up about it was called "Quaker
Street," by which it is still known. Silas Tripp was a farmer in good
circumstances, who married Martha A. Stephens, and of this marriage was
born J. S. Tripp, in Duanesburg, Schenectady county, N. Y., July 5th,
1828, who was the second of nine children. He worked on his father's
farm, attending the district school during the winter until he was
eighteen years old, when he went to the Schoharie Academy, teaching
school a part of the time to get the means for paying expenses. He
continued in the academy, acting part of the time as tutor, until 1850,
when he entered the law office of Judge Charles Goodyear, in Schoharie,
N. Y., where he continued reading law until June, 1853, when he was
admitted to the bar at a general term of the supreme court as Albany,
N. Y. He practiced at Schoharie until November, 1853, when he removed
to Wisconsin and settled in Baraboo, entering into partnership with his
cousin, Giles Stevens, now Judge Stevens of Reedsburg, where he
remained about a year, when he went to Sauk City and formed a
partnership

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with Cyrus Leland. This partnership continued for about two years,
since which time he has been practicing alone, excepting for one year
when he was in partnership with the late S. S. Wilkinson of Prairie du
Sac. In 1868 he commenced doing a banking business in connection with
his law practice, but discontinued the latter in 1887, since which time
he has confined his attention to the banking business.

Mr. Tripp was postmaster of Sauk City from 1854 to 1861, was town clerk
of the town of Prairie du Sac--then embracing the villages of Sauk City
and Prairie du Sac--for twenty years; was president of the village of
Sauk City for eight years; president of the village of Prairie du Sac,
member of the county board of supervisors of Sauk county much of the
time for the past thirty years, and several times its chairman. He was
a member of the Wisconsin assembly in 1862, having been elected as a
"War Democrat"; was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at
Cincinnati in 1880. He has resided in the village of Prairie du Sac
since 1873.

He is not a member of any church, and says
that he is too much of a Quaker to join any of those where he has
resided, but he is a regular attendant of the Presbyterian church of
Prairie du Sac, of which he is and has been for many years a trustee.

Mr. Tripp was first married, in 1857, to Fannie W. Hallett, daughter of
ex-Sheriff Hallett of Fairfield, N. Y. She died in 1865. He was again
married, in 1874, to Nellie W. Waterbury, daughter of the Hon. James I.
Waterbury of Prairie du Sac, by whom he had one son, who died in
infancy. She died in 1893.

KATZER, Frederick Xavier, archbishop of Milwaukee, resides at 2224
Chestnut street, the official home of this prelate. He is the son of
Charles Katzer, an engineer, and of Barbara, nee Reinhardtsgruber, and
was born on the 7th of February, 1844, in Ebensee, Upper Austria. He
attended the school at Gmunden, which was both a public and parochial
school of a higher grade; and pursued his classical studies on the
Freinberg with the Jesnit Fathers, near Linz. Here he made a very
creditable record for scholarship, and, upon graduating from that
institution, he stood at the head of his class in philosophy. Leaving
his native land with his parents in the year 1864, he arrived in
Milwaukee in September of that year, and at once entered the seminary
of St. Francis, near the city, and began the systematic study of
theology. Having completed this study, he was ordained priest December
21, 1866, and was appointed professor of mathematics in the seminary,
and subsequently professor of theology and philosophy, which position
be filled with great acceptance until July, 1875, when he became pastor
of the cathedral at Green Bay, and secretary of the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Krautbaner. In 1881 he was appointed vicar-general of the diocese; on
the 22nd of December, 1885, administrator, the bishop having died on
the 17th of that month, and in May, 1886, he was named bishop of Green
Bay, and consecrated September 21st following.

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This was a rapid advance in his sacred calling; yet one step more
remained to him, the highest and last save one that can be reached in
this country, and that he was called to take, four years later, when on
the death of Archbishop Heiss, he was, December 20, 1890, nominated
archbishop of Milwaukee, and took possession of his archdiocese on the
30th of June succeeding. He received the pallium, emblem of his
official dignity, at the hands of Cardinal Gibbons, on the 20th of
August, 1891. In all the high and responsible positions which he has
held he has shown signal ability and tact. As professor in the seminary
of St. Francis, he was remarkable for scholarship not only, but for his
vigor and originality as an instructor, and for the influence which he
exerted over his students. As priest, pastor and bishop he showed
himself equal to every demand made upon him, and acquitted himself in
such manner as to win the esteem and confidence of all who knew and
could appreciate his worth. It was largely through his efforts that the
new and beautiful cathedral which now adorns the city of Green Bay was
erected. In that diocese his administration was marked by new life and
harmony among churches, and greater zeal in the cause to promote which
the church was ordained and established. His promotion, therefore, to
his preset exalted office was a natural sequence, and was hailed with
delight by his many friends and admirers as opening up before him a
wider field of usefulness and power. His introduction into the
archbishopric was probably the most imposing religious demonstration
that has ever been witnessed in this state. The results of his five
years' administration of the affairs of his archdiocese are properly
pointed to by his friends as evidence of the wisdom of his appointment,
and as cause for anticipating great things for him in the future.

Archbishop Katzer has never had anything to do with politics, except in
the one instance of the controversy over the Bennett compulsory school
law. This law he regarded,

[image: FREDERICK XAVIER KATZER.]

whether rightly or wrongly it is not the province of this work to
determine, as a blow fatal, or at least very injurious to the parochial
schools, and to the cause of education as conducted and promoted by the
church; and, taking this view of the subject, it was but natural that
he should bend all his energies to the securing of the repeal of the
law. It has never been publicly charged, so far as the writer hereof is
informed, that he resorted to any measures beneath the dignity of his
office or not entirely legitimate viewed from his estimate of the
nature and vital importance of the issue. It is to his vigorous and
systematic opposition that the success of the struggle for repeal is
largely due.

Archbishop Katzer, immediately upon his appointment, entered
energetically upon the discharge of his responsible duties. He secured
a very desirable property for his official home, and then turned his
attention to the condition of the churches and the schools, calling, in
July, 1892, the first formal synod of Milwaukee, supplemental to the
Plenary Council of Baltimore, by which measures were consummated for
the more harmonious work

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of the church and the schools, and for the improvement of the latter
through the enlargement of the curriculum and the insuring of more
thorough instruction. The effect and influence of this systematic work
is seen in the growth of the church in membership and zeal, and in the
construction of the large number of new and beautiful church edifices.

A man of broad education, of wide experience in the affairs of the
church, and alive to the progressive tendencies of the times nd the
great social, religious and civil questions that are pressing for
solution, he is equipped for the fulfillment of a mission that shall be
far-reaching in its influence and salutary in its results

FALK, Otto Herbert, one of the leading young business men of Milwaukee,
and one, who, in connection with the Wisconsin National Guard, has
rendered the state valuable service, is a native of Milwaukee, and was
born on the 18th of June, 1865. His father, Franz Falk, was born in
Mittenberg, Bavaria, August 10th, 1824, came to Milwaukee in 1848,
became master brewer in the old Melms brewery, and, later, established
the Falk brewery, which, at the time of his death, August 5th, 1882,
was one of the leading breweries of America. The Falk Brewery company
was consolidated with the Pabst Brewing company in 1893. Young Falk's
mother, whose maiden name was Louise Wahl, daughter of Christian Wahl,
Sen., and a sister of Christian Wahl, president of the Milwaukee board
of park commissioners, was also a native of Germany. Both the Falk and
Wahl families were persons of influence in their native land, many of
whom were in the government service.

Young Falk was educated in the German- English Academy, Milwaukee; the
Northwestern University, Watertown, Wis., and the Allen Military
Academy in Chicago, which exerted a marked influence in developing his
taste and natural abilities for military affairs. From this school he
graduated as ranking captain. He began business at the age of twenty, as 
an apprentice in his father's brewery, afterward becoming assistant 
secretary and treasurer of the Falk, Jung & Borchert breweries. After 
the consolidation of this company with the Pabst company, Mr. Falk was 
with the latter and is still a stockholder in it, although not directly 
connected with its management. In 1893, he organized and became general 
manager of the Wisconsin Milling company, which manufactures corn goods, 
and has the largest mill of the kind in America, the capacity of which 
is 8,000 bushels a day. He is also vice-president of the Falk 
Manufacturing company, patentees and manufacturers of the famous Falk 
cast-welded rail joint. This company also does general railroad 
construction work. Mr. Falk is also vice-president and one of the 
largest stockholders of the McKenna Steel Working company, which owns 
and controls the McKenna patents for renewing old steel rails. It has 
just completed the erection, at Jolict, III., of a large mill for this 
industry, with a capacity of four hundred tons per day. This process is 
an absolute success, and will prove a valuable investment for those 
interested. He is secretary and treasurer of the El Xeschil company, 
which is engaged in the raising of coffee near Vera Cruz, Mexico. With 
these numerous and important business connections, it is quite natural 
that Mr. Falk should be a member of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce.

After graduating from the military school, young Falk was for a year
member of the Lights Horse Squadron Cadet Corps, and then, March 9th,
1886, entered the military service of the state as adjutant of the
Fourth infantry, W. N. G. Within two months he took an active part in
the suppression of the riots which broke out simultaneously in
Milwaukee and Chicago, and by his conduct so attracted the attention of
Gen. Rusk that he was appointed as aid-de-camp on the governor's
personal staff. Retaining his interest in the line, however, he was
promoted to major of the Fourth battalion, August 24th, 1887, and

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lieutenant-colonel, October 29th, the same year. Upon the inauguration
of Gov. Peck, he was appointed quartermaster-general, January 5th,
1891, and, December 5th, 1893, became adjutant-general of Wisconsin,
the youngest man who ever held this important office. On his own
application, and in accordance with the laws of Wisconsin, Gen. Falk
was placed on the retired list January 10th, 1895. He has been
commended in general orders by the chief executive of the state for his
action in the Third ward fire in Milwaukee, and at the Camp Douglas
fire. In August, 1893, he was sent to Ashland by the governor to
investigate the dock riots, and in two days succeeded in ending the
trouble to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. The following
message was sent to Governor Peck by the business men of Ashland: "A
resolution was adopted tendering your honor sincere thanks for the
timely and efficient aid rendered in the past two days to the milling
and business interest generally of the city through the personal
efforts of General Falk, who readily grasped the situation." July,
1892, Gen. Falk was ordered to Merrill, where a strike was in progress,
and there also the trouble was ended without the aid of troops. In
July, 1894, during the great railroad strike in Chicago and elsewhere,
the general succeeded in keeping the state free from all rioting,
expect at Spooner, where the authorities experienced some trouble in
quelling disturbances. In the winter of 1893 he was in charge of the
Hurley relief work. During his term of office he revised the rules,
regulations and laws governing the national guard of Wisconsin; and was
president of the National Guard association of Wisconsin in 1894.

Gov. Upham, in a general order retiring Gen. Falk, says the following:

"Few officers in the state have held so many appointments or filled
them so well. Whether as adjutant, as battalion commander, as
quartermaster or adjutant-general, he brought to the discharge of his
duties rare ability, sound judgment and enthusiastic devotion. In the

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equipment of the state force and in the system existing in this office,
he has left a monument to his executive skill. His unfailing courtesy
and consideration will be long remembered, and he carries with him to
his retirement the respect and esteem of the Wisconsin National Guard.

By command of the Governor,
Charles King,
Official.Adjutant-General."

In national politics Gen. Falk is a Democrat, but in local contests he
is for the best man. In 1894, an enthusiastic movement was organized by
the young Democracy to nominate him for governor, but he refused to
favor it, and has never held a political office.

Gen. Falk is president of the Military Rifle association of the United
States, which is formed by the union of many of the states of the
northwest and of the rifle teams and details from the regular army for
the purpose of encouraging rifle practice. He is also a member of many
military clubs and of social organizations, such as the Milwaukee, the
Deutscher and the Country clubs. He is still a single man.

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FIELD, George Louis, cashier of the First national Bank of Ripon, and
one of the foremost bankers of the state, was born in New berlin,
Chenango county, N. Y., on the 3rd of September, 1836, the son of
Arnold and Ellen D. Bennett Field. His ancestors were among the early
settlers of New England, and he is a lineal descendant of William
Field, who, in 1636, in company with Roger Williams, left the Puritans
of Massachusetts, on account of differing religious belief, and with
eleven other organized the colony of Rhode Island. George K. Field's
paternal grandfather moved from Rhode Island, in 1800, to Chenango
county, N. Y., where his father, Arnold Field, was born, and where he
spent his life as a farmer, dying when his son was but a lad. A few
years thereafter the lad's mother was married to John Niles, an iron
manufacturer of Mishawaka, Indiana, where she died in 1879, at the age
of sixty-four years. After his mother's second marriage, George L. went
to live with his grandfather, under whose care he received a common
school education, which was supplemented with a course in the academy
of his native town--a not insignificant preparation for a business 
career, as the life of Mr. Field has shown. When fifteen years of age 
this fatherless boy, clad in a new suit of clothes and with twelve 
dollars in his pocket, began the struggle of life for himself. He 
obtained a situation in the counting-room of Boardman, Gray & Co. of 
Albany, N. Y., at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars for 
the first year. That he had the fundamental principle of a successful 
business life thoroughly fixed in his mind, namely, of living within his 
means, is shown by his having saved out of his first year's salary four 
dollars over and above all his expenses. Careful in the management of 
his own affairs, and equally studious of the interests his employers, he 
soon gained their confidence, and they showed their appreciation of his 
services by increasing his salary from year to year, and he was thus 
enabled to save a larger sum each year. The principle of never exceeding 
his income in his expenditures, and of doing thoroughly what was 
committed to him, has been the leading one through all his successful 
and most honorable life.

Desiring to see something of the rapidly growing west, and, if
practicable, improve his own prospects, he came to Watertown, Wis., in
1857, and accepted the position of bookkeeper and teller in the Bank of
watertown. This position he held for six years. In 1863 he was tendered
and accepted the position of cashier of the Bank of Ripon. This bank
was succeeded by the First National Bank of Ripon, and Mr. Field was
made its cashier and practically its manager, and this position he has
held that day to this.

Mr. Field's efforts have been steadily directed as a banker to making
the institution over which he has so long presided one of the strongest
of its class in the country, rightly holding that the strongest
institution proportionately of any kind is the most profitable. This
bank now has a capital of $60,000, a surplus of $40,000 and $20,000
undivided profits. It has paid regular dividends since its
organization, and during these later years its prosperity

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has greatly increased, and it is considered one of the soundest in the
state.

He has always taken interest in the affairs of his beautiful little
city, and has done much to promote its industrial prosperity and social
progress. Possessed of sound judgment and wide experience in business
details, practical in everything which he undertakes and conservative
in his views of methods and policies, and, above all, of unswerving
integrity, he is a citizen whose value in all material relations is
above measure, and whose social influence is not less potent.

Politically he is a Republican, but is in no sense a politician, or a
seeker after office. He served twice as mayor of Ripon, but that is
about the extent of his office holding. He has served the city in its
financial matters and has served it well.

Mr. Field was married on the 11th of September, 1860, to Miss Imogene
Harger of Watertown, Wis., and they have had four children. Helen
Isabella died at the age of eight years; Amy D. is married to Dr. F. C.
Barnes of Ripon; Imogene E., is still with her parents. Their only son,
Arnold Wilson Field, died at the age of twenty-one--an irreparable
loss.

He has been a member of the Episcopal church almost since childhood,
and during his entire residence in Ripon has been a member of the
vestry of St. Peter's church, and since 1886 has been senior warden.

POLACHECK, Charles, senior member of the plumbing firm of Charles
Polacheck & Brother, is a native of Bohemia, where he was born on the
15th of April, 1857, although nearly all his life has been spent in
Milwaukee, having come the city with his parents, Samson and Caroline
Polacheck, when but two years of age. He was educated in the public
schools of Milwaukee; and upon leaving them he learned the trade of
plumber. Having attained his majority in 1878, he began business for
himself, and by close application

[image: CHARLES POLACHECK.]

thereto and a natural aptitude for its details, he has built up one of
the largest houses in this line in the city.

Mr. Polacheck was appointed school commissioner from the Second ward
for the term ending in 1879, and he has evinced great interest in the
cause of public education, and has sought to promote it by the faithful
and conscientious discharge of his official duties not only, but by his
influence as a citizen.

In the fall of 1896 he was elected to represent the Second district of
the city in the lower house of the legislature, and his characteristics 
are such as give reason to expect that he will prove to be a safe
legislator.

Mr. Polacheck has long been active in the local politics of his ward,
and finds pleasure in doing what he can for the advancement of the
interests of the Republican party, and the securing of the adoption of
its industrial and financial policy, believing that in so doing he will
best promote the material prosperity of the country.

He is president of the Wisconsin Master Plumbers' association, vice-
president of the Inter-State League of Master Plumbers, and

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was president of the local association for several terms. He is also a
member of the Standard club, is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of
Pythias, and past president of the Elk Lodge, No. 46. As to religious
matters, he is a member of the congregation of B'ne Jeshurun.

In October, 1884, he was married to Carrie Schoyer, and the children
from this marriage are Helen, Willie and Stanley.

MAYHAM, Dr. T. F., who as a citizen, public official and physician of
Fond du Lac, has long had a strong hold upon the affections of the
people in the community with which he has been identified since his
early manhood, was born in Blenheim, Schoharie county, New York,
January 30th, 1830. His grandfather, who was a native of the North of
Ireland, came to New York in his youth, grew up there, and married a
wife whose ancesters came to this country from Holland. John Mayham,
the father of Dr. Mayham, married Betsey Ferguson, whose name evidences
her Scotch ancestry on the paternal side. On the maternal side she was
of mingled English and French extraction. A prosperous farmers in that
portion of New York state which is noted for its dairy products and the
thrift and intelligence of its inhabitants, John Mayham carried on an
extensive farming and dairy business, and his son, T. F. Mayham,
received in early life a thorough industrial and economic training.
While his education was not neglected, he was brought up to work, and
the habits of industry and intense activity which he acquired as a
result of this discipline, have enabled him to perform a prodigious
amount of work, when duties and responsibilities of various kinds
crowded upon him in later years. His father's family being a large one,
a private teacher looked after their education a portion of the time,
and the subject of this sketch also had the advantage of attendance at
the district schools. That he was a precocious student is evidenced by
the fact that he began teaching school when only fourteen years of age, 
and when fifteen was in charged of a school with an enrollment of fifty 
or sixty pupils, two-thirds of whom were older than himself. There was 
no mistaking the bent of his mind, even in early childhood. As a boy he 
was delighted with the study of anatomy, and the earliest dissections he 
ever made were those of domestic animals, and his curative powers were 
frequently tried on the same class of patients.

After quitting the common schools he continued his studies for a time
at Stanford academy in Delaware county, New York, and completed his
preliminary education at Carlisle seminary. He then began the study of
medicine in the office of Dr. Isaac Mayham, an elder brother, who was
practicing in Carlisle. While reading medicine he also occupied, for
two years, the chair of chemistry, geology and botany in Carlisle
seminary.

In the fall of 1852 he entered Albany Medical College, and, after
attending two full courses of lectures, was graduated in the class of
1854. His college course completed, he found himself so much broken
down in health, as a result of over-work and continuous application,
that his life was despaired of, both by his friends and eminent
physicians with whom he consulted. Violent hemorrhages frequently
threatened to terminate his existence; and, diagnosing his own case, he
determined that nothing but heroic treatment would save his life. It
was this determination which brought him to Wisconsin in the fall of
1854, and for more than a year thereafter he gave himself up wholly to
the effort to regain his health. Rest, recreation, living in the open
air, constant watchfulness and a grim determination to get well,
brought a victory over disease.

In the winter of 1855-56 he taught school in the town of Empire, Fond
du Lac county, and, the following spring, was elected superintendent of
schools in that town. This office he held for three successive years,
teaching school during the winters of 1856-57. During those years, when
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of his official duties or teaching school, he traveled over the state,
introducing a uniform system of text-books into the schools of the
state.

In the fall of 1858 he decided to begin the practice of the profession
for which he had labored so earnestly to prepare himself, but before
doing so he took a post-graduate course in the medical department of
the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and in the spring of 1859
received his diploma from that institution. His intention at that time
was to seek a location in one of the states farther west; but upon his
return to the town of Empire he was called to render professional
services to some of his old friends, and very soon he had entered upon
a practice which continued until the fall of 1863, when he went to
Cairo, Illinois, as post surgeon of the government military hospital
there. He remained there until early in 1866, when the close of the
war, and the consequent dismantling of the hospitals, ended his term of
service as a military surgeon. Returning to Wisconsin he located in
Fond du Lac the following summer, and has practiced his profession in
that city ever since with marked success. In 1868 he took the Ad Eundem
course in Chicago Medical College, receiving the degree incident
thereto in the spring of 1869, and keeping in touch thereby with the
advanced thought and most approved methods of practice in the
profession.

It required but a short time for him to build up a general practice of
large proportions in Fond du Lac, and his readiness to respond to every
demand made upon him, and thorough equipment for any emergency, has
brought him to a constantly widening circle of patrons.

Quick in the diagnosis of cases and prompt in administering the proper
remedies, his methods of practice have been such as to commend him to
patrons, and to enable him at the same time to perform an unusual
amount of work. A sympathetic nature, and kindly, generous impulses,
have combined to make him always a welcome visitor in the sick-room,

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and to a large proportion of the community with which he has been so
long identified, he has sustained the relations of family physician,
counselor and friend.

The esteem in which Dr. Mayham is held by the people of Fond du Lac not
only been evidenced in a generous recognition of his professional
ability, but by such frequent elections also to important official
positions as have hardly been meted out to any other resident of the
city. He has served as a member of the country board of supervisors
four terms, was for many years a member of the city board of aldermen,
and for six years president of the council. For several years he was a
member of the board of education, and was chosen president of the board
four times. In 1882 he was first elected mayor of the city, and has
since been re-elected, serving in all eight terms as head of the city
government.

During his incumbency of the office of mayor he was a most active
promoter of public improvements calculated to enhance the beauty,
healthfulness and attractiveness of the city. The water-works and
sewerage systems, electric lighting and street paving improvements

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were mainly constructed during his administrations, or as a result of
movements set on foot with his official sanction and assistance.

His first vote was cast for Franklin Pierce for President, in 1852, and
he has ever since affiliated with the Democratic party, wielding an
important influence in local and state politics. In 1896 he refused to
endorse the Chicago platform or to give his support to the candidates
nominated thereon, was a delegate to the Indianapolis convention that
nominated as candidates Generals John M. Palmer and Simon B. Buckner,
and gave his hearty support to and voted for those candidates at the
election. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

In religion he is inclined to liberalism, but at the same time has been
a generous friend and patron of the churches of all denominations.
Philanthropic in his instincts, charitable under all circumstances, and
equally ready to assist the unfortunate or to aid in promoting the
general welfare of the community through public enterprises and
improvements, the testimony of those most competent to judge of his
merits is, that he has been a most worthy and useful citizen.

He was married in 1860, in the town of Empire, to Miss Mary E. Baker,
who was a native of New York state, and has on child, Bessie M., a
young lady whose rare musical talents promise to achieve for her more
than local celebrity.

EASTMAN, Everett Clark, a resident of Marinette, and senior member of
the law firm of Eastman & Martineau of that city, was born in Lisbon,
St. Lawrence county, N. Y., February 19th, 1859. His father is a
Congregational church in Lisbon for twenty-one years. He is a man of
superior ability, an evangelist of great power, and was known
throughout northern New York for his religious work. He now resides in
Royalton, Wis., where he was for twenty-two years pastor
of the Congregational church, but is now retired from active service,
at the age of eighty-three years. He is of New England parentage, a
typical Yank, his parents being of that hardy, pioneer stock that
settled northern New York, and from whom have come many of the active,
enterprising citizens of the great west. The maiden name of Mr.
Eastman's mother was Evaline Thorp, who was of Pennsylvania Dutch
descent on her mother's side, and a native of New York. She was a lady
of rare womanly virtues, whose highest ambition was the welfare of her
family. Whatever Mr. Eastman may attain to in life he says he shall owe
to his home training and to the rare qualities and great goodness of
his father and mother.

E. C. Eastman began his studies in "the little red school-house" in New
York, and continued them in the pioneer school-house near Royalton,
Waupaca county, Wis., after the family removed thither in 1869. His
father was pastor of the village church, but lived on a farm, or rather
in the woods, a mile out of the village. He was reared amidst the
hardships and privations of a home missionary's life, and it was only
after years of patient toil that his father and older brother had
succeeded in clearing a sustaining farm in the wilderness. He attended
Ripon College for two years and studied under private tutelage three
years thereafter. After his preparation, he began the study of law in
the office of How & Turtellotte in La Crosse, and was admitted to the
bar March 12th, 1880, by Judge Newman, now associate justice of the
supreme court, just twenty-one days after coming of age.

Mr. Eastman's father, being a home missionary minister, was able to
give his son but very little aid toward securing an education,
therefore, while in college, Mr. Eastman largely paid his way by waving
cane-seated chair bottoms, which he was enable to do on the weekly
half-holidays and at night. While on La Crosse studying law, for
several months he board himself on less than one

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dollar a week and roomed in an attic, sleeping on a bed of his own
construction. This hardy mode of living continued until he began to
earn sufficient in the office where he was studying to make it possible
for him to have more of the comforts of life.

He began the practice of his profession in New London, Wisconsin, in
May, 1886, but removed to Kaukauna, Wisconsin, in October of that year,
where he continued the practice to March, 1883, whence he moved to
Marinette, where he now lives. After being there about six months, he
formed a consulting partnership with John Bottensek of Appleton, which
continued to the 1st of January, 1886, after which he formed a
partnership with A. E. Mountain, formerly of Ouebec, Canada, the style
of the firm being Eastman & Mountain, which partnership continued until
January 19th, 1895, when Mr. Mountain did. He was a man of rare
ability, scholarly attainments and was the recognized society leader of
Marinette. His untimely death was a great blow to the community. Mr.
Eastman then practiced alone until February 1st, 1897, when he formed a
co-partner-ship with Pierre Martineau, which still exists. Mr.
Martineau is a lawyer of experience and are ability and has the
confidence of the firm's clients. His biography appears elsewhere in
this volume.

In 1887 Mr. Eastman drafted the charter for the city of Marinette; was
its first city attorney and prepared its first code of ordinances. He
was appointed city attorney the following year. In November, 1894, he
was elected district attorney on the Republican ticket, running several
hundred votes ahead of the ticket, and was re-elected in November,
1896. He was one of the Lake Superior Ship Canal & iron Co. vs. Walter
Cunningham, in which the title of the canal company under a land grant
from the government to several hundred thousand acres of valuable pine
land was involved. Dan Ball of Marquette and Alfred Russell of Detroit
were

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attorneys for the canal company, and Benjamin Vosper, ex-Chief Justice
Marsten of Michigan supreme court, and Mr. Eastman were attorneys for
the defendant. The success of the defense was such that the canal
company lost over on hundred and forty thousand acres of pine land,
valued at over a million dollars. Mr. Eastman was on of the leading
counsel for the plaintiff in the case of the Kirby-Carpenter company et
als., vs. the Menominee River Sash & Door company and the Pain Lumber
company, in which he recovered for his clients $36,000. He was also
attorney for Senator (now governor)Edward Scofield in the celebrated
Fetzer-Scofield contest for a seat in the state senate. Senator
Scofield was declared elected by the board of canvassers and Senator
Fetzer contested his right to the seat. Senator Scofield was defeated
by a strict party vote of three majority. In the state convention of
1894, at Milwaukee, he handled the candidacy of Major Scofield for the
nomination for governor, and although the major was not then nominated,
he was a close second to Gov. Upham, and the determined fight which he
made, and the friends

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which he won, enabled them to place him in nomination in 1896, which
resulted in his election as governor in November.

Mr. Eastman is general counsel for the Wisconsin & Michigan Railway
company, local attorney of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway company,
and is also the attorney of Geo. Scotfield and the Scotfield & Arnold
Lumber company, and the firm is counsel for the Marinette Gas, Electric
Light & Street Railway company, and is retained annually by a large
number of the lumber and manufacturing companies on the Menomimnee
river. He has a large and lucrative practice in the northern peninsula
of Michigan, which leads him frequently into the United States courts
at Marquette and Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has tried cases in
Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, and in the United States
circuit court of appeals in Ohio. He was also attorney for Frank
Deleglise in the contest for his seat in the legislature by George
Wunderlich, which resulted in Deleglise holding his seat, although
Wunderlich was the candidate of the dominant party in the legislature.
The firm has the largest law library north of Green Bay, in
northeastern Wisconsin. His practice has led him into the heavy lumber
and real estate litigation in that section of the state and the
northern peninsula of Michigan, and also into manufacturing litigation,
in which the personal injury business is largely dominant. He has
successfully defended a number of personal injury cases, not, as yet,
having been defeated in one. He was attorney for Henry W. King & Co. vs
Ferd. Armstrong, known as the famous Bishop vs. McGillis litigation,
which was first tried in Chicago and went through the Illinois supreme
court, resulting in a decision in favor of his client. Subsequently,
the litigation was renewed in Wisconsin, and went through the Wisconsin
supreme court twice, ultimately resulting in favor of his client. In
this litigation, many thousands of dollars were involved and many fine
questions of law. When this case was tried in Chicago, the celebrated
Capt. W. P. Black, of anarchist fame, was one of the opposing attorneys.

Mr. Eastman has from the beginning of his practice been a hard working,
painstaking lawyer, and it is a common saying in the city of his home
"that a light can be found in Eastman's office at almost any hour of
the night."

Mr. Eastman's party affiliations, past and present, are Republican. He
is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is a Presbyterian in
religion.

Mr. Eastman was married to Anna L. Leonard of Pierrepont, St. Lawrence
county, New York, September 1st, 1881, she being the daughter of J.
Ingraham Leonard, and hers being one of the oldest families in St.
Lawrence county, the deeds to her father's property, which are in Mr.
Eastman possession, being direct from old H. B. Pierrepont, the
original proprietor of the town of Pierrepont in St. Lawrence county.
The children are: Morgan Leonard, Luna Katherine and Stanley Everett
Eastman.

END PART 7