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This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Kelly Mullins, kellyj@snowcrest.net ======================================================================== Page 216 continued McLAREN, William Pratt, for thirty years one of the most prominent and honored of Milwaukee's business men, is a native of that land of brainy men, Scotland, having been born in Glasgow on the 19th of June, 1834. His father was John McLaren, a calico print manufacturer of Kirkintilloch, Scotland. His mother, Catherine Pratt McLaren, was born and brought up in Logic Almond, the hamlet made forever famous by Ian McLaren as Drumtochty. Mr. McLaren's parents, though not especially notable, were of that class that by its intelligence, integrity and Christian character has made the name of Scotland known the world over, and given it a place in history and literature second to that of no other nationality. Young McLaren was educated in the parochial school in his native city until was fourteen years of age, after which he spent two years at the grammar school in Perth, Scotland, and thus ended his school days. He Page 217 then became a clerk in an export house in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1853, when but nineteen years old, he landed in New York, which to so many of foreign birth has been the first step in a career of prosperity and honor. He also visited Boston, seeking a location which promised something more than his native land in the way of material reward for such investment of energy, ability and perseverance as he had to make. Some time was spent in this prospecting, including a visit of some length to Iowa, in 1855. Nothing, however, seemed to offer what he desired, and he went to Montreal in 1856, where he soon entered the grain and flour business, becoming a partner in the firm if Janes Oliver & Co., continuing in the business for eight years. He very soon assumed the prominence in business circles and in measures for the promotion of public improvement, which has characterized his life in Milwaukee. He was director of the Montreal board of trade, incorporator and president of the Corn exchange, president of the Mercantile library, and of the Mercantile Literary society. In 1864, Mr. McLaren retired from the Montreal firm and took up his residence in Milwaukee, where he established the commission firm of W. P. McLaren & Co., of Milwaukee and Chicago, which did a prosperous business for twenty years, or until 1884, when he retired from it. For two years thereafter he had an interest in the wholesale grocery firm of Ricker, Crombie & McLaren, and, upon retiring from this, he gave his time to private enterprises and to financial institutions with which he has long been connected. He has been for twenty years a trustee and a member of the executive and finance committees of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, and, for the last few years, second vice-president of that company; and in that position has devoted his entire time to its interests. As a business man Mr. McLaren has been noted for excellent judgment, conservative methods, yet alert and energetic in action, of [image: WILLIAM PRATT McLAREN.] indefatigable industry and of an integrity that has never been questioned. While always immersed in business, he has found time for benevolent and philanthropic work, and to further every enterprise calculated to benefit the city of his adoption and contribute to its growth and prosperity. As an evidence of this and the confidence reposed in him, in addition to the official positions already mentioned as held by him, he has been a director and twice vice-president of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, trustee of the gratuity fund of that organization, director of the Northwestern National Insurance company, vice-president of the national board of trade, director of the Mercantile library of Milwaukee, trustee of Lake Forest University and Carroll College, president of the board of trustee of Milwaukee College, trustee of Milwaukee Academy, director of the Humane society, first president of the Associated Charities of Milwaukee, and of the Emergency hospital, vice-president of the Red Cross society and chairman of the relief committee of the Newhall house fire. Though coming to Milwaukee late in the Page 218 year of 1864, but a few months before the close of our great civil war, Mr. McLaren did not attempt to avoid his responsibility as a citizen, but sent a substitute into the army, although he might, if he had chosen so to do, have escaped this duty. Mr. McLaren is a Republican in politics, and though frequently spoken of in connection with civil office, he has not manifested any desire in this direction, and has declined such of these honors as have been proposed to him. He has, however, been active in attending the caucuses and in the endeavor to secure the right man for office; has repeatedly been chairman of city and county conventions, was chairman of the Republican state convention which met in Madison in 1880, was presidential elector in the same year, and cast his vote for Garfield for president. Brought up a Presbyterian, he has not departed from the faith, but has been a consistent member of Immanuel Presbyterian church in this city for many years, and an elder and trustee of the same. His first church connection in the city was with Olivet church, of which he was deacon and trustee. Mr. McLaren was married on the 2nd of September, 1858, to Harriet Wyeth of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and they have had seven children, three of whom are dead. The living are Mary, Maria, George and William. GOLDSCHMIDT, Julius, is the son of Benedict and Laura Goldschmidt, and was born in 1846, in Osterode, which is situated in the picturesque region of the Hartz mountains of Germany. His parents died when he was ten years of age, and he was left without that parental care which is so necessary to the child of tender age; but he was not without that disposition of self-control and the manly instinct which often come to those orphaned at an early age, and which were the promise of the success that has marked his career. His early education was received at the gymnasium in his native village, and from this he passed to the high school at Seesen, near Braunschweig. Of studious habits and disposed to a careful analysis of every subject which he took up, he made rapid and thorough progress in his education, being strongly inclined to mathematical studies and those of a kindred nature, which naturally tend to fit one for a business career. Having completed his studies, which embraced the language, literature, customs and institutions of the United States, he determined to make his home here, and to identify himself thoroughly with the future of the country. On the 20th of December, 1866, therefore, he set sail for New York, where he arrived in the same month. Stopping there but a short time, he came to Milwaukee, where he became associated with an uncle in the carpet business. At the end of four years, in March, 1872, he took an interest in the Brand Stove company, of which he was made vice-president and manager, and with this company he has ever since been identified, making for himself a reputation for sound and progressive methods in business, and for honorable dealings in all the relations of life. One of the first acts of Mr. Goldschmidt upon becoming an established resident here, was to assume the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, and these he has met with a faithfulness and intelligence alike honorable to him, of service to his adopted country and worthy of the imitation of every citizen, no matter of what nativity. He has been a diligent student of the institutions of this country and of its governmental policy, as illustrated by the parties which, from time to time, have been at the head of affairs. The utter overthrow of the rebellion, and the magnanimous course pursued by the administration in dealing with those who were in arms against the government, were an object lesson as to its power and wisdom which made a deep impression upon him, heightening the admiration for free government which even as a student he had conceived. Though a very busy man, he has given much time to the promotion of measures and Page 219 institutions for the advancement of the social and material interests of the city. He has been an active, intelligent and thoroughly interested member of the board of trustees of the Milwaukee Public Library, a commissioner of the public schools, a director of the Merchants' association, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Milwaukee and Deutscher clubs. His study of American affairs, even before his arrival in this country, had given him a bias in favor of the Republican party; and mingling with people here when he became a citizen heightened those early impressions, and he became an ardent Republican, adhering strongly to its financial and industrial policies, and entering heartily in its conflicts for the control of the government. He was identified with the party in the presidential campaign in 1884; and, in 1888, he was chosen one of the Republican electors, and cast his vote for Benjamin Harrison for president. On the 19th of March, 1889, President Harrison appointed him consul-general of the United States at Vienna, Austria, the appointment being the first made to the consular service by the new president. The appointment proved to be a popular one, as Mr. Goldschmidt, by his education, his business training and his thorough accord with the principles and policy of our government, was thoroughly equipped for the intelligent and faithful discharge of the duties of his office. His urbanity and his efficiency gained for him the commendation of both Americans and Austrians, and his administration of his office was of especial value to the commerce of this country. He also contributed much to the enlistment of the Austrians in the success of the World's Fair in Chicago. So popular were his consular services that he is widely mentioned as worthy of reappointment to the position by President McKinley. Upon the close of his duties as consul he returned to Milwaukee, and took up the routine of his private business, with no regrets for the close of his official career, but with strengthened love and admiration for his [image: JULIUS GOLDSCHMIDT.] adopted country and for its beneficent institutions. In June, 1897, Mr. Goldschmidt was appointed consul-general at Berlin, Germany. Mr. Goldschmidt was married, in 1875, to Miss Ida Weiskirch of Milwaukee, daughter of Emil Weiskirch, an early German settler, and they have two sons and two daughters. Mrs. Goldschmidt is an accomplished woman, and was a social favorite in the Austrian capital. MARKS, Solon, M. D., for many years one of the leading physicians of Milwaukee, is a native of Stockbridge, Vermont, where he was born on the 14th of July, 1827. As a boy he attended the schools of his native village until sixteen years of age, when he entered the Royalton academy, and pursued the full course therein, leaving with the record of a thorough student, and with the ambition to attain eminence in whatever he might undertake. In 1848 he came west and made his home in Wisconsin. Deciding to enter the medical profession, he at once set about procuring the means for defraying his expenses while engaged in the work of preparation. In Page 220 [image: SOLON MARKS.] his efforts he was successful, and within three years he had accumulated enough money to carry him through the full course in Rush Medical College, in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1853. Immediately after his graduation he began, at Jefferson, Wisconsin, the work in which he has acquired such distinction. He did not, however, long remain there, but in 1856 removed to Stevens Point, where he rapidly built up a large practice. Our great civil war found him with a lucrative business not only, but with a steadily growing reputation for skill in his profession. All this, however, was as nothing when the government was in danger. Born and bred in that state where patriotic impulses are among the first and strongest in her sons, he could not resist the call of the government, but at once tendered it his services, and was appointed and commissioned surgeon of the Tenth Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, September 27th, 1861. The regiment left the state for the front on the 9th of November, 1861, and proceeded at once to the field of operations in the south. The regiment was assigned to Gen. Sill's brigade, and within a month after his arrival at the theater of war, he was detailed as brigade surgeon upon the staff of the commanding general, and this position he held until he capture of Huntsville, Alabama, on the 11th of April, 1862, when he was placed in charge of the military hospital which was established at that place. Here he remained until Gen. Buel began his retrograde movement toward the Ohio river, when he was ordered to the field, and in October, 1862, he was assigned to duty as medical director of the division commanded by Gen. Rouseau. This position he occupied until the organization of the Army of the Cumberland, when he was made surgeon-in-chief of the First Division of the Fourteenth Army corps, the duties of which post he continued to discharge with great ability and fidelity until the expiration of his term of service. Attending the army in nearly all its battles gave him special opportunity for studying that branch of his profession which he liked best and for which he was especially suited, surgery. While in no sense neglecting or slighting his duties to the soldiers, he gained such practical knowledge as has been of inestimable advantage to him in all his subsequent professional life, and has enable him to make many valuable contributions to the literature and practice of the profession. Upon the close of the war Dr. Marks made his home in Milwaukee, and entered again upon the private practice of his profession, in which he has become one of the best-known and most successful in the west. On the 11th of December, 1867, Dr. Marks was married to Miss Theodore Smith of Waterville, Maine. She was a most estimable lady, and the union was an unusually happy one. She died on the 12th of June, 1893, to the unspeakable grief of her husband and friends. Though not a member of any church and making no profession of good will toward men, Dr. Marks has done much good outside of the direct line of professional service. He has helped many a struggling young physician Page 221 with professional counsel, and something even more substantial. In 1873 he took a trip to Europe for the purposes of relaxation and observation. He visited the hospitals of London, Paris and other cities, and of these he was a deeply interested student. On this trip his wife bore him company, and was a suggestive and most appreciative companion. Returning home after an absence of many months, he resumed practice with new energy and with a knowledge of the latest advances in the theory and practice of the profession. MAERCKLEIN, Bernard Gustav, D. D. S., M. D., a prominent dentist of Milwaukee, was born in Gartz on der Oder, Germany, October 3rd, 1848. His father, Charles Maercklein, Sen., and his mother, Dorothea Vogel, came to this country several years after their marriage, and settled on a farm in Saukville, Ozaukee county, Wis., in 1853. Charles Maercklein, Sen., prior to his immigration hither, had served three years in the Prussian army, as all young men of a certain age are required to do. Young Maercklein attended the public schools after coming with his parents to this country, and received a fairly good education. Upon reaching manhood, he acquired an interest in a country store, where he worked for three years as clerk. He then entered the dental office of Wm. II. Loomis of Milwaukee, where he had the benefit of the instruction and advice of an experienced practitioner. After this he bought out his preceptor's office, and practiced dentistry from 1873 to 1884, at the expiration of which time he took a regular course in the dental department of the University of Pennsylvania, and also in the medical department of the same institutions, graduation from both with full honors. In 1887 he took up the practice of dentistry and medicine in Milwaukee, and has been very successful in both branches of his profession. Dr. Maercklein has held the position of [image: BERNARD GUSTAV MAERCKLEIN.] professor of oral surgery in the Milwaukee Medical Collage, and also of dean of the faculty of the dental department in the same college since 1894. The doctor is a Republican in politics. He was appointed to the first board of dental examiners for the state by Gov. Rusk, and was reappointed by Gov. Hoard, and held the position nine years. He declined another reappointment because of his official position in the college. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Dental society, and was president of it for one year. He is also a member of the American Dental association, the Wisconsin Medical society and the Milwaukee Practitioners' society. He is an Odd Fellow, a member of the Royal Areanum and a Knight of Honor of the Fraternal Alliance. Dr. Maercklein was married October 3rd, 1875, to Hannah Wendel, and five children have been born to them--Ella Dorothea, Arthur, Ethel Elizabeth, Bernard Webb and Emerson Wendel. Ella is attending the University of Wisconsin, taking the classical course. Page 222 [image: HENRY WILLIAM WRIGHT.] WRIGHT, Henry William, president of the H. W. Wright Lumber company of Merrill, is the son of Thomas W. Wright, a wagon-maker by occupation, who went to California in 1853, and was killed there. He was in fair financial circumstances at the time of his death. Mr. Wright's mother was Angelina Knowls before her marriage. H. W. Wright was born in Racine, Wisconsin, March 10th, 1844, and was educated in the ward schools of Racine, and in the high school under the tutorship principally of Col. John G. McMynn, who was one of the best educators in the state. Mr. Wright was educated for a book-keeper, and held many important positions as such. His first earnings as a boy were received for sawing wood for a neighbor, and it is to the credit of the boy and a prophecy of his subsequent success that they were spent for school books. When scarcely eighteen years of age, Mr. Wright enlisted at Racine, February 15th, 1862, and served in the Seventh Missouri cavalry as private, but was successively promoted from that position up to that of second lieutenant. He participated in fifty-two engagements of all kinds, among which were the battles of Prairie, Huntsville, Fort Smith, Helena, Little Rock, Saline Creek, all in Arkansas, and Shreveport, La. Most of his service was rendered in the southwestern army, under the command of generals Steele, Canby and Powell Clayton. He took part in Gen. Pleasenton's raid south from Kansas City, and was one of a detachment of troops that pursued the guerrilla Quantrell's band, among whom were the Younger brothers and others of that Stamp. After his military service was ended he worked at stationary engineering, railroading, book-keeping and manufacturing sash, doors and blinds at Racine. In the fall of 1881, he went to Merrill, then called Jenny, and formed a partnership with M. H. McCord, Under the firm name of McCord & Wright, for doing a general logging and lumber manufacturing business. This partnership was disclosed about eighteen months thereafter. Mr. Wright continued in practically the same business, and is now at the head of a prosperous company which bears his name. Politically he has been a Republicans, and has held numerous local offices. He was twice elected an alderman and twice a supervisor in Racine. In Merrill he was also twice an alderman and was elected supervisor the same number of times. He was once mayor of Merrill, and was postmaster of Racine for five years under Presidents Hayes and Garfield. He was nominated by acclamation for delegate to the national convention in St. Louis that nominated McKinley for president. Mr. Wright is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar and a consistory member. He is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is not a church member, but is a supporter of the Presbyterian church of Merrill. November 1st, 1870, he was married to Miss Carrie Buchan, and three children have been born to them. Page 223 SCHWEBACH, Rt. Rev. James, D. D., bishop of La Crosse, was born at Platen, parish of Bettborn, grand duchy of Luxembourg, August 15th, 1847, where, after receiving his elementary education in the parish school, he studied under private tutors for three years; subsequently, for two years more, he was a student in the college at Dickirch, and then sailed for America in 1864. Coming to Milwaukee, he at once entered the seminary of St. Francis, where he finished his classical, philosophical and theological studies. Being still too young for ordination, he was desirous of further pursuing his theological studies at Rome; but the late Most Rev. Archbishop Heiss called him to La Crosse to assist at St. Mary's church, and he went thither in February, 1869. On the 24th of July following, he was ordained deacon and officiated there for one year, preaching in the English, German and French languages, as the nationality of the congregations demanded. Bishop Heiss being absent in 1870, Rev. Deacon Schwebach was ordained priest. June 16th, 1870, by the late Most Rev. Archbishop Grace of St. Paul, and was appointed to the pastorate of St. Mary's church. In 1882 he was appointed by Bishop Flasch vicar-general of the diocese of La Crosse, and held that office until the death of Bishop Flasch, on the 3rd of August, 1891, when he was appointed administrator of the diocese. Announcement of his appointment to the bishopric of La Crosse was made on the 12th of December, 1891, upon the receipt of a letter from Rome, signed by Cardinal Simeoni, secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. On the 25th of February, 1892, he was consecrated bishop by the Most Rev. Archbishop Katzer of Milwaukee. The diocese is a large and important one, embracing a catholic population of about seventy-nine thousand ninety-two churches with resident priests, one hundred and twenty-six secular priests and priests of religious orders, two academies for young ladies, with one hundred and eight pupils, sixty-five parishes with parochial schools containing [image: RT. REV. JAMES SCHWEBACH.] eight thousand seven hundred and forty-one pupils. The total of young people under catholic care in the diocese is nine thousand and seventy- four. Vigorous in mind and body, having a thorough education, courteous in manner, an attractive speaker and possessing executive abilities of a high order, Bishop Schwebach has been very successful in the administration of the affairs of his diocese, and stands among the foremost of the clergy of his church. JAMES, Arthur Williams, one of the leading business men of Waukesha of the younger class, is the son of Samuel D. and Elizabeth Williams James. Samuel D. James was born near Cardigan, South Wales, November 23rd, 1822, and came to this country in 1847, setting in Utica, N. Y., where he remained some three years, going thence to Sandusky, N. Y., in which place he was engaged in the mercantile business for thirteen years, and where he was married to Miss Elizabeth Williams, a native of Pembrookshire, Wales. Closing up his business in Page 224 [image: ARTHUR WILLIAMS JAMES.] Sandusky, he came to Waukesha in 1864, and engaged in the dry-goods business with R. M. Jameson, and continued it until 1871, when Mr. Jameson retired and Mr. James carried on the business until 1883, when he took his two sons into partnership with him. In 1882, in company with several other gentlemen, he organized the National Exchange Bank of Waukesha, of which he was made vice-president, and this position he held up to January, 1896, when he was elected president. He died December 11th, 1896. He was a man of excellent business ability, and had accumulated a fine property, although he was a very liberal man, giving much to churches and to charitable objects. Arthur W. James was born in Sandusky, N. Y., March 17th, 1860, and came to Waukesha with his parents when he was four years of age. He was educated in the public schools for Waukesha and graduated therefrom with honors in 1877. His first employment was in his father's store, which he entered immediately upon leaving school, and where he remained as clerk until 1883, when he and his brother, as already stated, were admitted as partners. They bought out their father's interest in 1886, and conducted the business until 1891, when Arthur W. sold out and settled in West Superior, taking the position of secretary and treasurer of the Frank A. Lappen company, remaining there until 1893, when he returned to Waukesha, and engaged in the real estate and insurance business. Mr. James is a strong Republican, and as such has been city clerk and a member of the county board of supervisors. He is a leader among the young Republicans of the county, and president of the Waukesha Republican club, which is potent in the politics of the county. He was the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for sheriff in the county convention in the fall of 1896, and was only beaten by a combination, after the most stubborn contest ever had for any office in the history of the county. He led on every ballot until the last. Mr. James is a charter member of the Waukesha club, is a Knight of Pythias, and a Mason, belonging to the Waukesha Commandery, Knights Templar, also the Wisconsin consistory, thirty-second degree, the Tripoli Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Milwaukee. He is an attendant at the Baptist church. Mr. James was married June 30th, 1892, to Viva A. Curtis of Milwaukee. They have no children. STEBBINS, Albert Kellogg, was born in Milwaukee on the 21st of June, 1875, and is the son of Lemuel Dibble and Georgia Anna Green Stebbins. His father is by occupation a watchmaker and jeweler, and his mother has for seventeen years been keeper of the government light-house at North Point, Milwaukee. The ancestors of Mr. Stebbins, both paternal and maternal, immigrated to America from Great Britain in colonial days. Rowland Stebbins, the first of the name in this country, came on the ship Francis of Ipswich, in 1634, and was one of the original settlers at Springfield, Page 225 Massachusetts, where lineal descendants of the family are to be found to this day. John Beebe, paternal grandmother's ancestor, sailed with his family from Broughton, England, for America, in 1650, but died on the voyage. His son, John, was one of the earliest settlers of Danbury, Connecticut, where lineal representatives of the family still remain. Jonathan Wheelock, ancestor of his maternal grandmother, immigrated to America about the middle of the seventeenth century, and his descendants are found to-day scattered through New Hampshire and Vermont. Philip Green, the ancestor of his maternal grandfather's family, came from England about 1737, and settled in Ballston Spa, New York. Lemuel Beebe was a captain, and Augustus Green a lieutenant in the Revolutionary army, and were participants in some of the noted battles of the war. James Beebe, another ancestor, was a soldier in the war of 1812-14. Rowland Stebbins and his son, John, figured in the witchcraft cases in Massachusetts, it being in their yard that "Goody Parsons," as the indictment alleged, "together with others unknown, took upon themselves the shape of cats to the great displeasure of Almighty God." Albert K. Stebbins, received his early education at All Saints' Cathedral school in Milwaukee, where he took the gold medal honors in the senior class in 1888. The winter of 1889-90 he spent at Barker Hall in Michigan City, Indiana. The following winter he was a student in the Milwaukee High School. In June, 1892, he received appointment to the United States military academy at West Point, from Hon. John L. Mitchell. He reported there for examination, and passed, but was rejected by the medical board on account of defective vision. Returning home, he entered the law office of Frank M. Hoyt, in July, 1892, as a law student, remaining there until June, 1894, when he entered the office of W. C. Williams, continuing his law studies, there until September 14th, 1896, when, having passed the bar examination, he ALBERT KELLOGG STEBBINS. was admitted to practice in all the courts of the state. On the first of October following, he formed a partnership with Emmons E. Chapin, under the firm name of Chapin & Stebbins, for the practice of law in all its departments. Their office is room 21, Sentinel building. Mr. Stebbins is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church of Milwaukee. BRADFORD, Samuel J., a resident of Hudson, Wis., and a prominent lawyer of that city, is a lineal descendant of William Bradford, one of that heroic little band of "Pilgrims" whose voyage to this country has rendered the name of the "Mayflower" famous forever, and who was the second governor of Plymouth colony. S. J. Bradford is the son of Simeon S. Bradford, who was a native of Massachusetts, but who removed to New York, where he was engaged in editorial work and manufacturing. In 1850 he came to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm in the town of Paris, Kenosha county, where he was engaged in farming and teaching school. He was a Page 226 [image: SAMUEL J. BRADFORD.] member of the legislature in 1861. His wife, Jane Bement, was a native of New York, and also a school teacher. The material ancestors were also of English descent, the first of the family coming to this country at an early day. Samuel J. Bradford was born at the home in Paris, Kenosha county, on the 25th of November, 1852. When about 5 years of age his parents moved into Racine county, town Yorkville. As in the case of most young Americans, his early education was received at the district school, first in Yorkville, and afterward in that in Hammond, St. Croix county, to which the family removed when the boy was eleven years of age. He grew up on the farm and experienced the rugged life of the early pioneers. After receiving a good primary education he attended an academy and afterward a commercial school. He then prepared for professional life by entering the law department of the state university, from which he graduated in 1876. Returning home after his graduation, he was, in the following fall, elected clerk of the circuit court, a position which he held for seven years, to the very general satisfaction of all those having business in the court. His official experience familiarized him with court procedure, and was of service to him in entering upon the practice of his profession. Not long after the expiration of his term as clerk of the court, he was elected district attorney and reelected for a second term. His next public service was that of president of the school board of Hudson, and in 1894 and 1895 he served as mayor of the city, and he is at present city attorney. At the presidential election in the fall of 1896, he was chosen elector from the Tenth district, and cast his ballot for McKinley for president. He is a foremost member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was elected Grand Patriarch for Wisconsin at the recent grand encampment, at Whitewater; and the members of the order, who are numerous in Hudson and vicinity, felt greatly gratified by his election. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Hudson. Mr. Bradford was married October 8th, 1878, to Barbara E. Ross of Hammond. They have no children. LALUMIERE, Rev. Stanislaus P., was born in Vincennes, Indiana, February 13th, 1822, of French-Canadian parents. The original family name was Petit, which he retained as a middle name. In the early days of border life in Canada, his father received the soubriquet of "la lumiere" from his companions, for whom he discovered the path when they were lost in the trackless forest; and, in time, the soubriquet became a surname. After finishing hi course of studies at St. Mary's College, Kentucky, he studied law, first at Vandalia, Illinois, then at Springfield, in the same state, where he was admitted to practice about 1844. Abraham Lincoln, afterwards president of the United States, was one of his examiners. In 1848 he Page 227 went to St. Louis, where he was appointed deputy clerk of the United States court; and, in 1849, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Florissant, near St. Louis. After some years of study and teaching, he was ordained priest, in 1857, by Bishop O'Regan of Chicago; and, in 1861, he was appointed superior of the residence in Milwaukee, where the chief work of his life was accomplished. Father Lalumiere seems to have been specially gifted for the great work assigned to him. He had a genial disposition, kindly, unselfish and unostentatious. When he came to Milwaukee, St. Gall's church and St. Aloysius' Academy were mere frame buildings; for these he soon substituted a fine brick church and the more pretentious academy of St. Gall, which, in their turn, were to be superseded by the grand structure called the Gesu, on Twelfth street and Grand avenue, and by Marquette College, corner of State and Tenth streets. The erection of a college in charge of the members of the Society of Jesus had been in contemplation for many years. In 1848 a Belgium gentleman of Antwerp, Chevalier J. G. DeBoeye, offered to Rt. Rev. Henni, then Bishop of Milwaukee, $16,000 to establish a house of Jesuits in his diocese. It was to comply with this request that Bishop Henni invited the Jesuits to Milwaukee and handed over to them the old St. Gall's church, hoping that, in the course of time, a college would be built which should come up to his own expectations, as well as those of the noble benefactor. His hopes were realized, but not till the end of his life. The opening of a college at the time Father Lalumiere came to Milwaukee would have been premature; however, with his ordinary prudence and foresight, he prepared the way. In 1855, the Rt. Rev. Bishop had purchased property on the "hill" with the sum donated by Mr. DeBoeye, and transferred it to the Jesuits. In 1863 Father Lalumiere bought the adjacent property, and thus secured the whole block, bounded by State and Prairie, Tenth [image: REV. STANISLAUS P. LALUMIERE.] and Eleventh streets. In 1864 he obtained from the legislature a charter for Marquette College, granting powers to confer such literary honors and degree as the trustees may deem proper. In 1880 he took the final step, and, on the 15th of August a throng of people, in numbers and enthusiasm exceeding any theretofore seen in Milwaukee, marched in procession, or crowded along the streets to witness the laying of the corner-stone of Marquette College. At the beginning only elementary classes were formed. But the attendance steadily increased and the higher classes were gradually introduced, until, a few years after its inception, the regular college classes were complete. That the idea was a prudent one, may be judged from the enviable standing Marquette has attained among the Jesuit colleges of the west; for in the fifteen years of its existence, in the annual intercollegiate contests in Latin, participated in by such institutions as St. Louis University, St. Louis; St. Xavier College, Cincinnati; St. Ignatius College, Chicago; Detroit College, Detroit; Creighton University, Omaha, Neb., and St. Mary's College, Page 228 St. Mary's, Kansas, Marquette has been awarded first place. Bearing in mind that upwards of four hundred students competed, one must admit the high grade of scholarship reached by the students of Marquette. The college at present has an attendance of about two hundred and fifty students, while its alumni are already numerous in the city, and steadily working their way to prominence in business and the professions. In 1889, on account of poor health, Father Lalumiere was relieved from the cares of office, which he had borne so faithfully for over a quarter of a century, and was removed to Cincinnati, where he spent the few remaining years of his useful life in comparative ease. He died in Cincinnati, March 22nd, 1895, at the age of seventy-three years. PERKINS, Frederick Stanton, painter and antiquary, a resident of Burlington, is the son of Origen Perkins, who was born in Mansfield, Conn, February 23rd, 1801, a lineal descendant of John Perkins, who came from England to this country and built a house in Boston in 1631. Origen Perkins came, with his parents, from Connecticut to Trenton, New York, in 1802, and in 1819 to Illinois, where he taught school for a year or more, and then went to Texas, thence to the West Indies, and, in 1824, returned to Trenton, N. Y., and engaged in farming. In 1829 he married Maria Stanton of Connecticut, moved to Illinois in 1835, and to Burlington, Wis., in 1837, where he had made a claim and built a log house the year before. He lived in Burlington until March, 1850, when he went, with a company of his neighbors, overland to California. In March, 1853, when on the point of returning home, he was murdered for his money. F. S. Perkins' mother was Maria Salina Stanton before marriage, daughter of Captain Nathanial Stanton of Stonington, Connecticut. Her maternal ancestors were Hollanders of the name of Melyn, who settled on Staten Island, N. Y., in 1641. F. S. Perkins was born in Trenton, N. Y., December 6th, 1832. He was in his fifth year when his parents made their home in Burlington. The first school that the attended was in a small log house without a floor other than the prairie soil. In 1842 he was sent to New York City to school, and remembers standing on the steps of the Astor house on the day of the Croton water celebration in 1842, and seeing President Tyler upon the occasion of his visit to the city in 1843. In November, 1843, he returned home, coming from Buffalo to Milwaukee on the steamer Chesapeake, the trip occupying two weeks. Mr. Perkins has a vivid recollection of the appearance of Milwaukee then, as the steamer came into the harbor. The houses were mostly one-story cottages, and only two or three on a square, and all nearly buried in snow, for winter had set in. In 1853 he returned to New York and entered upon the study of painting in the studio of Jasper F. Cropsey, the landscape painter. About the year 1860 he took up portrait painting, in which he was quite successful. Two years later he came to Milwaukee and established himself as a portrait painter, with his studio in the "Iron block." There he painted the portraits of such well-known citizens as Wm. B. Hibbard, E. D. Holton, C. D. Nash, S. N. Small, J. B. Martin, Wm. H. Metcalf, E. P. Allis, Dr. E. B. Wolcott, M. H. Carpenter, Charles F. Ilsley and many others. Mr. Perkins' father's house, the first frame building erected in Burlington, was one of the stations on the "underground railroad"; and, as the father was an abolitionist, so was the son. While the lived in New York City, from 1853 to 1862, he became personally acquainted with the leading man of that party--men whose personality was the most pronounced of any that the country has produced: Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, and the brothers Tappan. Mr. Perkins saw Col. Ellsworth and his regiment of zouaves; the first regiment that went to the Page 229 war, the Sixth Massachusetts, as they marched down Broadway with solemn face and determined look, as if they fully realized the desperate work before them. This regiment was followed a day or two later by one of cavalry from Maine, that marched down Broadway singing "John Brown's Body." He also saw President Lincoln on his way to Washington, in 1861, standing in a carriage, bowing to the vast multitude that cheered him almost constantly as he passed down the avenue. Mr. Perkins is a member of the Boston Numismatic society, of the American Numismatic and Archaeological society, and of the Congregational church. On the 30th of May, 1864, Mr. Perkins was married to Miss Emily Wainwright of Middlebury, Vt., and four sons were born to them, namely: Frederick Wainwright, Robert Stanton, Henry Edson and Edward Wainwright. Mrs. Perkins died May 18th, 1877; and Mr. Perkins was married a second time, in 1888, to Miss Sarah Starkey; and by this marriage there are two sons and two daughters, as follows: Origen, Alice, Linda and Paul. Mr. Perkins went to Europe in 1876, and spent three months painting in Florence, and ten months in Paris. Since 1865 he has devoted much time to the work of collecting and preserving the stone and copper antiquities found in Wisconsin. He was the first to make a great collection of them, and he awakened such an interest in these things that many other persons have lately been making similar collections. Mr. Perkins has gathered thirteen hundred copper implements, and thirty-four thousand of stone, all found in Wisconsin, besides a great number gathered from other states and foreign countries. His contributions of these have enriched the collections of the College of the City of New York, the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian institution, the museum of the city of Milwaukee, the State History society of Wisconsin, and many private cabinets. He has painted careful portraits of two hundred stone implements [image: FREDERICK STANTON PERKINS.] and eleven hundred of those of copper, and has kept careful records of all the valuable specimens. The State Historical society has recognized the great value of Mr. Perkins' work by publishing in its annual report for 1876, a full account up to that date of his methods of procedure in making his collections, and of their worth from a historical point of view. Mr. Perkins has made the state of Wisconsin his debtor by his systematic, thorough and extensive archaeological labors. Among the distinguished people he has been personally acquainted with are Judge Wm. Jay, General Geo. H. Morris, the post; Bayard Taylor, Wm. Cullen Bryant, Alice and Phoebe Cary, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Jay, Rev. Henry W. Bellows, Rev. E. H. Chapin, Dr. Lyman Beecher, Charles L. Elliot, the painter; F. E. Church, A. B. Durand, Wm. Page, Daniel Huntington, Geo. Inness, Thomas Hicks, Randolph Rogers and Thomas Couture. Among scientists he has known Spencer F. Baird, Sir Wm. R. Wilde, Sir John Lubbock, G. de Mortillet, Louis Pigorini, Guiseppe Bellucci, Gastaldi and others. Page 230 [image: DANIEL WELLS, JR.] Page 231 WELLS, Daniel, Jr., with a very few exceptions, the oldest citizen of Milwaukee, as he was one of the very earliest to make his home within its limits. No one, certainly none of those now living, was more conspicuous than he in the early history of the city or rendered it greater service in the formation of its institutions, the shaping of its industrial course and the laying of the foundations of the great, prosperous and beautiful city it has now become. But his service was not confined to Milwaukee; the whole state, and, indeed, the whole northwest are to-day reaping the advantages of his early labors and his far-reaching sagacity in all material affairs. He was such a pioneer as lays broad and deep the foundations of states and nations, and whose influence upon them in the unnumbered years that follow can never be fully measured. This man lives yet, in the enjoyment of all his faculties, in a beautiful home overlooking the city which he helped to build, and in whose growth and prosperity he still takes an intelligent and lively interest. Mr. Wells was born in Waterville, Kennebec county, Maine, on the 16th of July, 1808, the son of Daniel Wells, a farmer of that region, and the owner and manager of a custom carding and cloth dressing mill. As in the case of most boys of those times, his educational privileges were limited to a few months' schooling during the winter, his summers being devoted to work on the farm and in the mill. Meager as were his advantages, he made such use of them as to qualify him for teaching a district school, and before he had reached his twentieth year he had taught two terms. While a teacher he studied navigation, and gained some practical knowledge of that important science. But he was not born for a teacher or scholar. His tastes were for the more active career and broader possibilities of a business life. According, in 1830, when but twenty-two years of age, he invested his earning in a stock of apples, cider, butter, cheese, drygoods, etc., which he took, in a coaster, to Magnolia, Florida, where a New England colony had settled, and where he disposed of his goods at a handsome profit. Falling in with one Robert Kerr, who had a contract for the survey of government land, but lacked the means for the purchase of an outfit, Mr. Wells became his partner in the undertaking, furnishing the money therefor, and personally becoming a helper in the work, for which his knowledge of navigation and mathematics had in a measure prepared him. They surveyed five hundred square miles, for which they received four dollars per mile, and as the work was completed by the end of March, 1831, it proved a successful venture, although Mr. Wells suffered somewhat in health on account of exposure in the Florida swamps. Returning to Maine in September, he opened a general store in Palmyra, Maine, which he conducted with success until the spring of 1835. On the 23rd of November, 1831, he was married to Miss Marcia Bryant, daughter of Dr. Bezer Bryant of Anson, Somerset county, Maine. While a resident of Palmyra, young as he was, his enterprise and ability attracted public notice, and his services were in requisition for justice of the peace, selectman, town clerk, assessor and overseer of the poor. With that far-reaching sagacity which has always been a characteristic of him, he early turned his thoughts to the west as the most promising field for large enterprises; and, in 1835, in company with Winthrop W. Gilman, he visited Milwaukee, and made considerable investments in town lots and in lands in other parts of the state. Returning to his home, he made arrangements to remove to Milwaukee, and on May 19th, 1836, he arrived, with his family, in what was then a little frontier village. The high regard in which he was held by his fellow citizens of Maine found expression in a public meeting, at which resolutions were adopted deploring his departure as a public loss and a source of personal regret. No sooner had he arrived in Milwaukee than he entered, with his accustomed energy, upon the work of developing the resources of the Page 232 embryo city. He had not been three months in his new home when Gov. Dodge appointed him justice of the peace for Milwaukee county, which then embraced in addition to what it does now, the territory at present forming Washington, Ozaukee, Jefferson, Racine, Walworth and Kenosha counties. In March, 1837, he was elected a member of the executive committee of the claim organization, formed to protect the squatter until he could get title to his land from the government. In 1838 he was a trustee of the east side of Milwaukee, and on the 4th of September of that year he was appointed probate judge. In 1841 he was elected a fire warden. In 1842 he served as under-sheriff, and the same year was appointed commissioner in bankruptcy, and held the office until the law was repeated. He also held the office of county supervisor and town surveyor. In 1836 her made the first lot survey upon the south side of Milwaukee, surveying then the tract known as Walker's Point addition. In 1836 he also surveyed that part of the east side of Milwaukee that lies east of Jackson street and between Michigan and Oneida streets. In 1838 he was elected a member of the territorial council for what is now Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington and Jefferson counties. His colleague was William A. Prentiss, and the council was the first legislative body that met in Madison; and, as the capitol was not yet completed, the sessions were held in the dining-room of a hotel for a short time. The council was composed of able men, and they had a difficult and most important work to perform. The territory had been, for governmental purposes, part of that of Michigan, and their task was to formulate and enact a code of laws for a separate government suited to the new conditions. Mr. Wells was a member of the committees on territorial affairs, finances, ways and means, schools, territorial roads and enrollment. All these were important and responsible positions, especially so in relation to a new community. Among the important measures whose passage Mr. Wells was active in securing, against much opposition, was one authorizing the county to bridge the Milwaukee river, and another for the protection of actual settlers against non- resident land-holders, who had monopolized large tracts for speculative purposes. This law provided that taxes should be assessed against land alone and not on improvements. This law was considered necessary by the exigencies of the situation, and remained in force until the territory was admitted. This was probably the first law of the kind ever enacted, and though it disappeared with the circumstances that called it out, the idea is now adopted by certain advocates of reform in the principle of taxation. A similar law is now in force in Australia. Still another measure, in securing the passage of which Mr. Wells' ability and influence were conspicuous, was the charter of the Wisconsin Marine & Fire Insurance company. There was determined opposition to the bill, and, after it had passed, repeated efforts were made, but without success, to secure its repeal. Mr. Wells was elected for four years, but resigned in 1844, at the end of the fourth session. The next public position filled by him was that of commissioner from Wisconsin to the World's Exposition in the Crystal Palace at London. Here he saw much which was of service to him and to the public which he represented. After traveling through Great Britain and France, he returned home the following year. In the early days of parties Mr. Wells was a Whig; but upon coming to Milwaukee, the interests of the territory he considered could best be subserved by his acting with the Democratic party, then generally dominant, and his affiliations have since, for the most part, been with it, although he has opposed some of its prominent measures. He was also an earnest supporter of the government during the war of the rebellion. In 1852 he was elected to congress from the First district, his opponents being Charles R. Durkee, Free Soil, and Henry M. Durrand, Whig. Without Page 233 pretensions as a speaker or debater, he addressed himself at once, earnestly and industriously, to promoting the interests of his state, and introduced bills granting lands to the state in aid of the construction of railroads throughout its limits. He also introduced a bill providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a government building in Milwaukee, and secured an appropriation of $50,000.00 therefor, which, at the next session, was increased by an additional appropriation of $38,000.000. He was active in securing appropriations for the improvement of the harbors of Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha, the reduction of the rates of ocean postage, and the regulation of the foreign coasting trade on our northeastern and northwestern frontiers. So highly did his constituents appreciate his services, he was re-elected to the next congress. It was in the organization of the house at this session that the celebrated contest over the election of speaker occurred. The rules required a majority to elect; but, as there were four candidates, the struggle continued for weeks without result. Mr. Wells, with his practical good sense, set himself to work to solve the problem; and, by his personal appeals, he secured an amendment to the rule requiring only a plurality to elect, and Mr. Banks was elected on the first ballot thereafter. His action in this matter won him the confidence of his fellow members, and greatly augmented his influence; and to him is Minnesota chiefly indebted for her grants of public lands in aid of her railroad system. At the end of his second session he declined a reelection. For many years Mr. Wells was one of the most conspicuous figures in business circles, and one of the most successful operators. He built the City Hotel, now Kirby House, being the first brick hotel in the city. He engaged in the storage and shipping trade; dealt largely in grain and wool; was one of the organizers of the Madison, Watertown & Milwaukee Plank Road company, and from 1847 to the present time has been largely engaged in the lumber trade, and has been associated with many of the lumberman in Wisconsin and Michigan in all branches of the business. He has been interested in the banking business, having been a director of the Wisconsin Marine & Fire Insurance bank for many years, and president of the Green Bay bank, and of its successor, the First National of La Crosse. He was vice-president of the old board of trade, and has long been a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is now a director in the Northwestern National Insurance company. He was one of the organizers of the various branches of what is now the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway system, to which, more than any other instrumentality, is due the rapid development of the resources of the state. He was one of the incorporators of the Milwaukee & Mississippi and the Milwaukee & Watertown Railroad companies, and was president of the latter after it became the Milwaukee & La Crosse railroad. He was also president and director of the Southern Minnesota and of the St. Paul & Minnesota Valley roads. The mere enumeration of the many positions of honor and trust which Mr. Wells has held is, perhaps, the most expressive testimonial to his ability and integrity, and to the esteem in which he has long been held by his fellow citizens that could be prepared. BELL, Archibald W., assistant district attorney for Milwaukee county, is the son of Christopher Bell, a native of Carlisle, England, who came to this country with his father in 1817, and settled in Philadelphia, where he learned the trade of bricklayer and mason. He built the foundations and set the first boilers and engines that were used in drawing the cars up the heavy grade at Holidaysburg, at the time the first railroad was built through Pennsylvania. He was almost entirely self-educated, but well informed and intelligent, independent in thought and action, and fearless and outspoken at all times. He married Page 234 [image: ARCHIBALD W. BELL.] Mary M. Cassidy, at Newry, Pennsylvania, and moved to Salem, Ohio, where he remained until 1846, when he removed to Platteville, Grant county, Wisconsin, residing there until his death in 1883, at the age of seventy-six years. Mary M. Cassidy, Mr. Bell's mother, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1811. Her grandmother was one of the earliest settlers of that region, and the family endured the hardships and privations of pioneer life, among which was the lack of educational facilities. Owing to this fact and to the idea prevalent among some people that women do not need to be educated, Mrs. Bell did not enjoy the advantages of an education; but, possessing a strong, clear mind and a tetentive memory, she was able to overcome, to a great extent, this defect in her early training, and to gather a fund of information upon all matters of general interest. To her, more than to aught else, Mr. Bell says he owes education and whatever of success he has had. Mr. Bell was born in Salem Ohio, on the 10th of November, 1840. He was educated in the public schools and in the Platteville academy, under that distinguished and able educator--Prof. Joshua L. Pickard. The academy was one of the best schools of its day in the state, and those who received their training there have almost invariably become useful citizens, and prominent in the vocations which they entered. Mr. Bell, owing to the fact that he had to make his own way in life from boyhood, did not have the advantages of a college education. He began earning money as a teamster when a boy of thirteen years. At fourteen he was learning the trade of bricklayer, and at this and the kindred trade of mason he worked until he had reached the age of twenty-two, spending the unemployed months of winter in attending school and in home efforts in mental culture. In 1859, he took up the study of law under the direction of Hon. S. O. Paine, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. In the fall of 1865 he began the practice of law in Platteville, continuing there until 1888, when he removed to Milwaukee, and went into partnership with Hon. D. S. Rose for general law business. This firm continued for four years, when it was dissolved, and a partnership formed with A. C. Brazee and J. H. Stover, the firm name being Bell, Brazee and Stover. In January, 1895, this firm was dissolved, Mr. Brazee having been elected district attorney of Milwaukee county, and Mr. Bell being appointed his assistant. The firm is now Bell & Brazee. Mr. Bell entered the army during the rebellion, and was chosen first lieutenant of Company K, in the Forty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteer infantry. His service was creditable, although short, owing to the close of the war not long after the formation of the regiment. He was at one time commander of Post No. 33, Grand Army of the Republic, at Platteville; and he is now a member of the Wolcott Post of Milwaukee. In politics Mr. Bell is a Republican, having always supported its principles and policy and voted its ticket. His present official position is the only one ever held by him; and he was Page 235 never a candidate for office until 1892, when he received the Republican nomination for district attorney of Milwaukee county and was defeated by a plurality of only 142 votes. Mr. Bell is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Modern Woodmen of America, the G. A. R., and the American Protective association. He does not belong to any church himself, but his family are Episcopalians. His children are two daughters and a son. MAERCKLEIN, Robert, D. D. S., was born in the town of Saukville, Ozaukee county, Wis., February 25th, 1860, the son of Charles Maercklein, Sen., who was a cabinet-maker by trade, in Germany, but abandoned it for farming after coming to this country. His wife, and mother of Dr. Maercklein, was Dorothea Vogel, also a German by birth. Robert Maercklein attended the district school in his native village, and after having received what it could give of education, he obtained a position in a country store in Fredonia, Wis., where he remained three years, gaining such general knowledge of common business methods as may be acquired in stores of that character. After leaving the store, he began the study of dentistry with his eldest brother, Bernhard, and subsequently entered the dental department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he spent two years, graduating in 1884. He then returned to Milwaukee, and took charge of his brother, Bernhard's, dental practice during his absence for a special course of study. In 1886 Dr. Robert Maercklein opened an office of his own, and has since continued in the uninterrupted practice of his profession, building up an extensive business. He has filled the chair of professor of the principles and practice of dentistry and of operative dentistry in the Milwaukee Medical College every since the establishment of that institution. Politically he is a Republican, though not an active partisan. He has served as member of [image: ROBERT MAERCKLEIN.] the Milwaukee school board from the Sixth ward, and is a member of the State Dental society and of the American Dental Association. Dr. Maercklein was married October 5th, 1889, to Ella M. Koch, and they have two children--a boy and a girl. BURNHAM, Frank, W., a resident of Richland Center, and prominent as a member of the bar of that city, was born in Addison county, Vermont, June 25th, 1853, but came to Wisconsin with his parents when he was three years of age. His father, Horace L. Burnham, was formerly a teacher, but in 1856 settled on a farm in the town of Ithaca, Richland county, where he remained engaged in dairying and general farming until 1888, when he removed to Richland Center. All of the Burnhams of this country are descended from three brothers who emigrated to this country from England at an early day in the New England settlement. F. W. Burnham's mother was Susan C. Lowell before marriage, a teacher in the public Page 236 [image: FRANK W. BURNHAM.] schools of Vermont. Her ancestry is traceable to the same source as that of James Russell Lowell, the poet, essayist and diplomat. F. W. Burnham received his education in the district school near his father's home in Richland county, in the Richland Center high school and La Crosse Business College. He remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age, working on the farm in the summer and teaching school in Wisconsin and Minnesota winters. He began the study of law when he had reached his majority and was admitted to practice in 1878. He then formed a partnership under the firm name of Black & Burnham, which lasted three years, when it was dissolved; and since that time he has practiced his profession without a partner. He has made a specialty of criminal practice, and has successfully defended several charged with murder in Richland and other counties in the state. He has been several times elected district attorney and prosecuted the famous case of the State versus Rose Zoldoski for the murder of Ella Malley. He is a Republican in politics, and has always supported the Republican nominees. He has served as mayor of Richland Center, but has preferred, as a general thing, his law practice to the uncertain and often unsatisfactory rewards of partisan service. He is a member of Richland Lodge, No. 166, F. & A. M., Richland Center, of which he was several times master. He belongs to Boscobel Chapter; De Molai Commandery of Boscobel; Wisconsin consistory Scottish Rite, Valley of Milwaukee, and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, Tripoli temple. He is also a member of Linden Lodge, Knight of Pythias, R. C. Mr. Burnham was married January 4th, 1887, at Dubuque, Iowa, to Ida, daughter of John Mehlhop, of the Mehlhop company, wholesale grocers of that city. They have two children--Margaret and Carl F. MEYST, William, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, September 11th, 1846. His father, Peter Meyst, and his mother, Cornelia Faber, were both natives of Amsterdam. A brother of Mrs. Meyst, Frank J. Faber, was for years head engineer, having full charge of the water works in India, for the Dutch government. William Meyst attended school in his native city, and so precocious was he that at the age of ten years he had mastered all the branches of an ordinary education, and received a certificate of qualification for teacher in the public schools, and a year thereafter he received a diploma for scholarship in the French language. When but a boy, he began teaching in the public schools of Holland, and continued it for five years. After that he took private instruction in various branches, and prepared himself for a commercial career. He came to this country in May, 1867, when twenty-one years of age, with his parents, who started a Dutch colony in Minnesota. William, however, remained in St. Paul, preferring to be self-supporting. Times being exceedingly hard, and not being willing to remain in idleness, he sawed wood in St. Paul, Page 237 and in this he earned his first money in this country. But a man of such parts was not made for a sawer of wood, or for anything of that kind. The postmaster of St. Paul heard of him as a good linguist, and, wishing a translator, sent for him, and finding him capable and efficient, gave him a good position in the office. This gave him a start. From the postoffice he went into the store of Noyes Brothers & Cutler, wholesale druggists of St. Paul, as book-keeper, remaining with them eight years. His health failing, he gave up this position, and opened a general store at Glencoe, Minnesota. This, however, did not prove a great success; and, disposing of it, he came to Milwaukee in 1877, and embarked in the insurance business, as agent for the Home Life company of New York. Abandoning this, he took the position of book-keeper for E. R. Pantke & Co. This and other similar positions he held until 1887, when he associated himself with A. E. Smith, under the firm name of A. E. Smith & Co., as state agents for the Fidelity and Casualty company of New York. In December, 1892, he bought out Mr. Smith's interest, and in June of the following year he took into partnership with him A. R. Coates, and the firm name is now Meyst & Coates. This is the business record of one having the qualifications and the will to succeed, a perseverance and courage to rise superior to all obstacles, and a readiness to do any honorable work until success is achieved. Such qualifications rarely fail to produce their legitimate fruit, honors and financial independence. Mr. Meyst has been a Republican ever since he came to this country. He represented the Seventeenth ward in the board of school commissioners for seven years, and was a very intelligent and efficient member. Among the measures he advocated while a member was the reducing of the manner of pupils to a teacher, thus relieving them of the strain to which they are constantly subjected, and enabling them to do better and more comprehensive work. This measure was in part adopted, [image: WILLIAM MEYST.] and the teachers and principals showed their appreciation of Mr. Meyst's efforts in behalf of the best interests of the schools by presenting him with a bust of Abraham Lincoln. In 1895 Mr. Meyst was elected president of the Wisconsin School Board association. He is also a member of the National Union and the Royal Arcanum, in which he served as guide, vice-regent, regent for two years, and was connected with the grand council. He has been a member of the Hanover Street Congregational church since 1880, is one of its deacons, a member of its board of trustee, and most of the time that he has been connected with the church he has been superintendent of its Sunday school. In December, 1896, he was elected president of the Milwaukee County Sunday School Teachers' association. His family consists of a wife and seven children--four boys and three girls. As an insurance agent Mr. Meyst has been very successful. When he became connected with the Fidelity and Casualty company of New York it had just entered the State of Wisconsin, and had but little business; but, in Page 238 a few years, by persistent efforts, he became the banner agent of the company, and has maintained that pre-eminence for the last seven years. In 1892 the premium income of his office amounted to something over one hundred thousand dollars. The crisis of 1893 reduced this amount somewhat, but it is still large, and is likely to be greatly increased as the volume of the business of the country increases. AGEN, James H., representing Superior in the legislative assembly, is a striking illustration of the progress toward wealth and influence to which a man may attain in this country who is endowed with courage, ambition and unfaltering perseverance. His father, David Agen, born in Kings county, Ireland, December 5th, 1810, was by occupation a farmer. His mother, Elizabeth Donahou, was born in Scotland, November 10, 1823. They were married in 1842, and came to Montpelier, Vt., where they lived for six years. They then removed to Wyoming county, N. Y., which was thenceforth their home until their death. They settled in the timber, and in making them a home they suffered much privation and hardship, the father, in consequence, becoming blind for some eight years. During this time the support of the family of seven children devolved upon the mother and the older children. Under these circumstances, with the nearest school three miles away form their humble home, schooling was almost out of the question, and the boy James grew up with very little education. But he had an unlimited amount of pluck and a native shrewdness, which, in some measure, supplied the place of an education. Born in Montpelier, Vt., April 29th, 1847, he was nine and a half years of age when the great calamity came upon the family. With the purpose to make his own way in the world, and, if possible, contribute something to the support of the family, he started out with his little bundle under his arm and not a cent in his pocket, and he tramped for nearly three weeks, sleeping out doors and in barns, but was finally picked up by a kind old Quaker farmer, who took him home, and there he remained until the fall of 1862, when he enlisted in one of the New York regiments, but was thrown out because he was under age. Enlisting again some months later, he was again thrown out for the same reason. A third attempt was more successful, the examiners overlooking his evident lack of age and his scant height, on account of his anxiety to enter the service. He was taken into the 130th New York regiment, and went to the front with it, where it was merged in the First New York dragoons, and thus in cavalry he served until the close of the war. A mere boy, being only about fifteen years of age when he was mustered into the service, he had some hard as well as novel experiences; but boy as he was, he was a brave and thorough soldier, and saw much hard fighting. He was in forty-two battles and skirmishes, among which were the Wilderness, Cold Harbor and Five Forks. He had two horses shot under him, one at Winchester, where he was wounded, and was at Appomattox when Lee surrendered. Though but eighteen years old when the war ended, he made a record not exceeded by many older in years and service. In 1866 Mr. Agen moved to Osage, Iowa, where he received his education in the Cedar Valley Seminary, and afterward secured a position as clerk in a general store. He had saved several hundred dollars as a soldier. This he loaned his employer, who failed not long after, and young Agen lost all his money and all his wages. But he was not disheartened. He hired out to a farmer, and ere long he had earned and saved over a hundred dollars. He engaged in drayage, the express and coal business, and he was quite successful. Then he was a dealer in lumber and grain, which business he sold out in 1887 and moved to Superior. That his energy, integrity and public spirit were fully appreciated by his follow citizens of Osage is shown by this fact Page 239 that he was two years a member of the city council, six years a member of the board of supervisors, and the same length of time a member of the school board. He was also for two years president of the Mitchell County Agricultural society. Since he made his home in Superior he has been conspicuous in his efforts for the development of the industrial and commercial interests of the city. He has dealt extensively in real estate, his books showing a total in sales of over $5,000,000. So active is he in everything that he undertakes that he has acquired the sobriquet "Hustler" Agen. He has taken great interest in the agricultural development of Douglas county, and has been very efficient in organizing the Northern Wisconsin Agricultural society, of which he is president. No better evidence of his public spirit can be given than a reference to any subscription list that has ever been circulated to raise a bonus for any worthy enterprise in the city of Superior. He has put $70,000 into buildings and permanent improvements in the city. He has served two years in the city council, was president of the Chamber of Commerce, and has held other positions of prominence and responsibility. He was elected to the legislature from the First district of Douglas county in 1896, by a plurality of 872 over O. H. Perry, his fusion opponent. During the winter in the legislature, he was known as one of the leading members of the assembly, and he introduced a number of important bills, among which were the bills providing for an immigration board, for a northern Wisconsin state fair to be held at Chippewa Falls, and also a number of other quite important bills. Mr. Agen also had the pleasure of being on Commander Adam's staff at the national encampment of the G. A. R., held at Pittsburg, in 1894. Mr. Agen was married February 22nd, 1869, to Ezilda L. Hart of Osage, Iowa, who was born in Centerville, Mich., May 20th, 1848. They have five children, two boys-- [image: JAMES H. AGEN.] Roy J. and Earl V., and three girls--Lillie B, Millie B. and Grace M. He is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, Masons, Grand Army and the Methodist church. WINKENWERDER, John Wesley, or J. W. Winkenwerder, as the name appears on official documents, coroner of Milwaukee county, is a resident of Wauwatosa, and the son of George Winkenwerder, a stonemason and contractor, who came to this country from Germany in 1849, without money or friends, and settled in Fostoria, Seneca county, Ohio. He married Hannah Kiesbury of Pennsylvania German extraction, a woman of noble impulses, and one who was always ready, to the extent of her ability, to minister to the necessities of others. By the death of her husband, in 1861, she was left destitute and in ill-health. Her son, at an early age, was thrown upon his own resources, and had some rather rough experiences, although he was not disheartened. Born in Fostoria, on the 10th of May, 1859, his first knowledge of books was gained in the old style country school. Page 240 [image: JOHN WESLEY WINKENWERDER.] Being poor and without the stimulus to hard study and constant attendance which many boys possess, he went to school at irregular intervals, and his progress was, in consequence, far from rapid. At the age of twelve years he had the misfortune of losing an arm; but the calamity was not wholly without compensation, for ex-governor ad ex- secretary of the United States treasury, Hon. Charles Foster, took him to his home and sent him to a high school, and here he remained twelve years. Like many boys, he was not fully impressed with the real value of an education, and failed to make the most of his opportunities; yet the privileges he enjoyed, through Gov. Foster's generosity, were not without a most salutary influence upon his life. He found a new world opened to him, of which he would no doubt have remained in ignorance but for the physical misfortune which befell him; and he says that if he could be offered the restoration of his arm upon the condition of giving up the education which he received through its loss, he would not make the exchange, so highly does he regard an education. He came to Wisconsin in the summer of 1886, of 1886, without a dollar, making his home in Milwaukee county. The first money he earned was from selling books during a summer vacation while he was still a student. After leaving school he secured a position as book-keeper and assistant foreman in a large machine shop and agricultural works. While holding this place he was occasionally, sent out on the road to make collections and sales, and to straighten up old accounts. He was very successful in this work, and soon had plenty of positions at his command. While engaged in this work, he was appointed, in 1890, steward of the Milwaukee county hospital, and held the position until January, 1895, when he entered upon the duties of the office of county coroner, to which he had been elected in the fall of 1894, and to which he was re- elected in November, 1896, receiving the largest plurality of any candidate on the county ticket. Mr. Winkenwerder has always been a Republican, though his relatives, so far as he knows, are Democrats. He believes, however, in the declaration of Garfield: "Every young voter should have a mind of his own and be independent when he comes to casting his ballot." He is a Knight of Pythias, and takes an active part in the work of the organization. In religion he is a Protestant, but not a member of any church, though he atends services, from time to time; in different churches. KIECKHEFER, Ferdinand A. W., was born in the city of Milwaukee on the 10th of February, 1852. His father, Charles Kieckhefer, was a native of Germany, and came to this country in 1851. For a number of years he was engaged in the business of contractor, but subsequently abandoned that for mercantile pursuits. Ferdinand received his education in the Lutheran parochial schools of Milwaukee, and the Spencerian Business College, graduating from the latter at the age of fifteen years, having, through his natural aptitude for business principles and methods, laid Page 241 the foundation for the successful business career upon which he entered when he was little past his majority. His first regular employment was as assistant book-keeper in the large wholesale hardware store of John Pritzlaff of Milwaukee. Here he remained for five years, acquiring an experience in the world of business and a discrimination regarding the elements of success which have contributed largely to the formation of his character as a man of affairs. In 1872, when scarcely twenty-one years of age, he began business for himself, by opening a retail hardware store at 200 West Water street, which was, some time thereafter, removed to 110 and 112 Grand Avenue. In 1878 his brother William became associated with him in the business, which was conducted with marked success until 1880, when it was sold, and they established a plant for the manufacture of tinware. The enterprise was a success from the beginning, growing rapidly in all its departments, demanding more machinery and more room to fill the orders which steadily poured in upon them from near and far, until the factory became, as it continues to be, the largest and best equipped in this industry, not only in the United States, but in the world. The list of articles manufactured embraces a complete line of plain, galvanized, japanned and enameled tinware, sheet steel and iron goods. Some conception of the extent of the works may be gained when it is stated that the buildings have a frontage of six hundred feet on St. Paul avenue, between Ninth and Eleventh streets, a depth of 385 feet, and a floor area of 420,000 square feet, while the number of employees foots up 900. Not only does the firm make a large variety of utensils, but they make many of the machines used in the works. The value of the yearly product exceeds $1,500,000, and the market therefor extends over the United States. To establish a business of such magnitude in the comparatively short space of sixteen years has few, if any, parallels in the industrial [image: FERDINAND A. W. KIECKHEFER.] history of the country. Ferdinand Kieckhefer was the originator of the business, and has always been its leading spirit. The company was incorporated in 1892, with a paid-up capital of $1,000,000, Mr. Kieckhefer being the president and general manager. While in no sense an active politician, Mr. Kieckhefer is a staunch Republican; and, as all good citizens are, or ought to be, is interested in the success of such men and measures as will tend to the securing of honest and stable government. He was a member of the Advancement Association of Milwaukee, is connected with St. John's Lutheran church, and with the German club of the city. Socially, he is courteous to strangers, always genial among friends and hospitable towards those with whom he may be brought into close relations. He was married to Miss Minnie Kuetemeyer in 1875, by whom he has had five children, Clara, Louisa, Alfred, Minnie and Ferdinand. He has a beautiful home at 2605 Grand Avenue, and there, in the society of his family, he finds the best of all relaxation from the oppressive cares of business. Page 242 [image: DAVID GILBERT HATHAWAY.] HATHAWAY, David Gilbert, M. D., a progressive young physician of Milwaukee's beautiful suburb, Wauwatosa, comes of true New England stock, as indicated by his name and nativity, having been born in Marion, Plymouth county, Mass., December 23rd, 1864. His father, Isaac Newton Hathaway, is a sea captain in comfortable circumstances, one of that class that has made America's marine service justly famous. Dr. Hathaway received his education in the public schools of his native town, until twelve years of age, when he was placed in a private school, in which he finished his general education. After that he entered the medical department of the University of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1884. After his graduation he received an appointment as assistant physician in the New York Asylum for the Insane on Ward's island, an institution in which scores of young physicians have gained a most valuable experience in their profession, and from which they have gone forth to positions of usefulness and prominence in private practice or official station. After three and a half years' service in this asylum Dr. Hathaway resigned his position and came to Milwaukee in 1889. He practiced medicine in Wauwatosa to 1894, when he received the appointment of superintendent of the Northern State Hospital for the Insane, at Oshkosh, Wis. This responsible position he filled with marked ability and success until July 1st, 1895, the end of the official year in that institution, when, a change in the political complexion of the board of control having occurred, he failed of re-election. Dr. Hathaway's political affiliations have always been with the Democratic party; but, like most physicians, he has not taken an active part in party work, though he holds firmly to the principles of his party. He keeps in touch with the progress of the profession through his membership in the State Medical society, and through the current literature of the profession. Dr. Hathaway was married October 17th, 1893, to Cora M. Dousman, and they have one child--Newton Dousman Hathaway. STICKNEY, John B., for forty-one years the agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company, at Mazomanie, is a native of Lancaster, Coos county, New Hampshire, where he was born on the 4th of August, 1828. The genealogy of the family is traceable to early English kings and to Normandy, in the north of France, whence representatives of the family came with William the Conquerer into Sumary, England, where they established the town of Stickney. Thence their descendants came to this country and were prominent in our colonial history. The grandfather of John B. Stickney, Capt. John Stickney, was with General Warren at the battle of Bunker Hill. His son, Dr. Jacob E. Stickney, the father of our subject, was born in Brownfield, Maine, in 1797, one of a family of twelve children. He received a thorough education, graduating from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and became one of the ablest and most prominent physicians of New Hampshire, Page 243 where the practiced fifty years, at one time holding the presidency of White Mountain Medical association. John B. Stickney's mother, who was Martha B. Goss before marriage, was born in Greenland, New Hampshire, in 1805, and was educated at the Portsmouth High School and at a private academy. She was a most accomplished woman, but died at the age of thirty-five years. John B. Stickney received a common school education in his native village, and at the early age of ten years entered the Lancaster Academy, from which he graduated three years thereafter. With the independence and ambition not uncommon among New England boys of his time, he at once, after leaving school, began work on his own account, as clerk in a dry goods store, and continued in that capacity three years. After that he pursued the same occupation at Wells River, Vermont, for a number of years, when, in the spring of 1851, he came west, and entered the employment of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company at Milwaukee. In 1856, when the road, in its western course, had reached Mazomanie, he went thither and took charge of the office there, and there he has ever since remained. In length of service he is the oldest living employe of the company, his first employment dating back forty-six years. When he went to Mazomanic there was but one house there, but it has grown into a thriving little city, and with that growth he has been closely identified, having made the first plat of the town, and been active in its real estate transactions. Mr. Stickney was married at Lancaster, N. H., May 3rd, 1853, to Miss Charlotte White Moore, a native of that town, where she was educated at the common schools and the academy. They have three daughters: Alice, a graduate of the state university, and the wife of E. J. Elliott of Dells Rapids, South Dakota; Mary, educated in the Mazomanie High School and the Milwaukee Female College, married to F. E. Bronson of Portage, Wis.; Nelly, educated in Mazomanie, spent two [image: JOHN B. STICKNEY.] years in teaching, and is married to A. E. Diment, a hardware merchant of Mazomanie. Mr. Stickney is what might be called one of the charter members of the Republican party, having been one of those who helped in its organization in Wisconsin. He was a Henry Clay Whig, and believes in the principle of protection to home industries. He has served as supervisor of his town, president of the village board for six years, and member of the school board for fifteen years. He was once a candidate for the assembly, but that was when his party was not in the ascendant and he was defeated. He is a member of Crescent Lodge, A. F. A. Masons, No. 97, Mazomanie, and was secretary for five years. He is an attendant at the Congregational church. At one time he owned a fine fruit farm in Grand Traverse county, Michigan, and was a large shipper of apples to Wisconsin, Iowa and other points. He has also done much to improve the breed of trotting horses, and owns two of the best in Dane county. Mr. Stickney has one of the finest residences in the state outside of the cities. Page 244 [image: HENRY A. FRAMBACH.] FRAMBACH, Henry A., a resident of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, is of German descent, as his name indicates, and was born in Syracuse, New York, November 21st, 1840. His father, Charles A. Frambach, was a teacher of languages. In 1846, Mrs. Frambach, mother of Henry A., died, and her husband, with his family of four motherless children, removed to Racine, where eight years after he too passed away. The boy, Henry, was thus thrown upon his own resources, and went to work upon a farm for the summer at six dollars per month. When winter came he attended the district school, and thus acquired the rudiments of an education. That he was a brave, self-reliant boy is shown by the fact that in 1857, when but seventeen years of age, he crossed the plains to Salt Lake as master of a wagon train, receiving therefor, as compensation, forty- five dollars per month. Returning from his long journey, he operated a wood boat on the Illinois river for a time, when the civil war coming on, he sold his boat and enlisted in the Sixty-first Illinois infantry. Serving as a private till after the battle of Shiloh, he was detailed to the secret service, the most responsible, as it was the most dangerous service to which a soldier could be assigned. Of his bravery, self-possession and good judgment, there could be no better evidence than this assignment. He served with distinction in this capacity until 1863, when he was appointed chief of the secret service in the Department of Arkansas, with the rank of colonel. This position he retained for some time after the close of the war, engaging at the same time in mercantile business in St. Louis. In 1872, Col. Frambach, in company with his brother, went to Kaukauna, Wisconsin, and built the first paper mill erected in that town, at the same time engaging in merchandizing. From 1878 to 1880 he operated paper mills in Menasha and Kaukauna. The Eagle paper mill, which he at one time operated, was burned in 1880, and this he rebuilt and operated as the Frambach paper mill. A year later, he, with others, organized the Union Pulp company. His interests in both of these establishments he disposed of in 1884 to a syndicate; and, in company with Joseph Vilas of Manitowoc, he organized the Badger Paper company, and its plant was ready for work in 1885. Col. Frambach is president of this company, one of the most prosperous of the many similar ones in that region; also vice-president and general manager of the Quinnesec Falls company, Quinnesec, Michigan. He is a financier as well as a manufacturer, having established the Manufacturers' bank in South Kaukauna, in 1886, and two years later he organized the First National Bank of Kaukauna, with a capital of $50,000, which is said to be one of the soundest financial institutions in the state. Of this bank he is president, and has held the office since the bank was organized. Col. Frambach is also actively interested in several other manufacturing enterprises, and has the mental capacity and physical vigor to grasp the details of all these great concerns. Politically Col. Frambach is Republican, and one of the party leaders of his district. Page 245 He was a member of the town board of supervisors in 1876, and in 1892 was the Republican nominee for congress, but that was not a year favorable to Republican success, and he was defeated. He was the first mayor of Kaukauna when it had received a city charter, and was president of the American Paper Maker's exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, a position for which he was admirably fitted. He was married, in 1865, to Miss Fannie Claspill of Springfield, Illinois, and of this union there are five children. The family are attendants upon the Congregational church, to which Col. Frambach is a liberal contributor, as he is to many other worthy objects. He is an Odd Fellow, and has filled, consecutively, all the official chairs of the organization. He became a member of the Masonic fraternity in 1887, and is a member of the Wisconsin consistory. He is a benevolent, public-spirited man, enterprising and alert in all business affairs, and in a very large sense the architect of his own fortune. A hard worker, he finds his relaxation from the cares of business in raising and driving fine horses, for which he has a passion. BARRY, Frank, of Milwaukee, is the son of Benj. F. Barry, a resident of St. Louis prior to his decease, and of Mrs. S. E. Barry of Milwaukee, who was Susan Elizabeth Emerson of Boston. On his father's side he is of Norman-Welsh extraction, his ancestors for four generations being New Englanders. On his mother's side he comes of pure English stock, her ancestors having been residents of New England for five generations. She belongs to the noted family of Emersons, Ralph Waldo Emerson being a consin. The subject of this sketch was born at Alton, Ill., on the 28th of March, 1856. His early education was received from private tutors, from whose hands he passed to the Academy of Washington University, in St. [image: FRANK BARRY.] Louis, thence to the University of Illinois, from which he graduated with the degree of bachelor of letters in 1877, second in a class of forty, having taken the entire university course in three years. His university course having embraced military tactics, he was commissioned by Gov. Beveridge captain in the Illinois National guard, and served in that capacity four years. He took a post-graduate course at the university in 1878, acting, at the same time, as private secretary of the president, J. M. Gregory. Mr. Barry came to Milwaukee in October, 1883, to take the position of general manager of advertising for the E. P. Allis company. This position he held until the death of Mr. Allis, in 1889, when he was elected secretary of the Millers' National Association of the United States, which post he still holds, having discharged the duties thereof with signal ability and to the marked satisfaction of the association. Mr. Barry was educated for the medical profession; but, being young to enter practice, he took a situation in the St. Louis National bank at the close of 1878; and, becoming Page 246 interested in commercial pursuits, he abandoned the idea of following his profession, and devoted himself with his characteristic ardor to his business career. In 1879 he entered the employ of the Missouri Pacific railway, in the general offices, where promotion was rapid and substantial, until, in 1880, he found himself chief freight accountant of the Wabash railway system. Health failing him in 1881, he went to Minneapolis, Minn., where he served for three years as contracting agent of the Chicago,, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. With scholarly instincts and a taste for literary pursuits, he next turned to journalistic work, which he followed until he took up his residence in Milwaukee. In 1889 he began the publication of The Pythian Age, official organ of the Knights of Pythias, and of this journal he is still the editor and publisher. In 1890 he was elected grand keeper of records and seal of the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and he has been annually re-elected ever since. He was also in 1895, elected brigadier-general, commanding the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias, and is still serving in that capacity. In 1894 he was elected president of the National Transportation association, composed of all the leading boards of trade and commercial organizations of the United States; and the ability displayed in this office won for him a re-election, an honor never before accorded to an occupant of this position. In 1895 he was elected first vice-president of the Wisconsin National Loan and Building association, and he is also a director and officer of several manufacturing and commercial enterprises in Milwaukee. Mr. Barry is much too young to have participated in the great civil war of this country; but had he been of proper age at that momentous time, there is little doubt that he would have had a military record commensurate with his lineage and abilities, for he is of the stuff of which successful soldiers are made. In politics he is a Republican "dyed in the wool," is active as a worker, but has no desire for office, and would accept none. He is a member of some half a dozen lodges of Masons, is Knight Templar, a Royal Arch and Scottish Rite Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Pythian, as already stated, a past exalted ruler of Milwaukee Lodge, No. 46, B. O. P. Elks, and a member of a number of other organizations, including the Press club, the Athletic association and the Deutscher club. In religion he is a Baptist. He was never married, and describes himself as a "confirmed old bachelor." This, however, remains to be proven. Always active and energetic, zealously devoted to whatever he undertakes, and yet comparatively a young man, he has a future before him of large and varied possibilities, and promising much more than he has even yet accomplished. TIMME, Ernst G., ex-secretary of state, ex-state senator, and recently appointed auditor for the state and other departments in the United States treasury department, was born in Werden, Prussia, June 21st, 1843. His father was Theodore Timme, who came with his family to Wisconsin in 1847, and settled on a farm in Kenosha county. Mr. Timme's mother's maiden name was Henrietta Sturznickel. His grandfathers occupied prominent positions as officers in the German army participated in the Napoleonic wars, and emigrated to this country at the same time that his parents did. Although a native of Prussia, his schooling was received entirely in this country, since he was but four years of age when he came. He attended the district school until he had mastered what it had to impart. When he was just past his eighteenth year, July, 1861, he enlisted in company C, First regiment of Wisconsin infantry, at Burlington, Wisconsin, and took part in all the battles in which that regiment engaged, was wounded in the battles of Perrysville, Stone River and Chickamauga, where on the second day of the battle Page 247 he lost his left arm. For gallantry displayed in this battle he was promoted to a captaincy by brevet, and received from the colonel of his regiment a gold medal in honor of his bravery on that occasion. He was discharged on account of the loss of an arm, May, 1864, and returned home, and soon after entered a college at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he graduated in due time, and, again returning to his country home, he was elected town clerk, justice of the peace and assessor, which positions he held until January, 1867, when he became clerk of Kenosha county, which office he held, by successive re- elections, for sixteen years. He was then nominated by the Republican state convention for secretary of state, and elected. This office he held for nine years-by re-election and by an extension by law of one term for one year. In 1892 he was appointed, by President Harrison, fifth auditor of the treasury department, and this office he held from July 1st, 1892, to March 27th, 1893, when, owing to the change in the administration, he tendered his resignation. In the fall of 1894, he was elected to the state senate from the Third Senatorial district, receiving a clear majority over all his opponents. In March, 1897, he was appointed auditor for the state and other departments of the United States treasury department by President McKinley. He was appointed and served as one of the commissioners of the state to erect monuments marking the places where Wisconsin troops fought at the battle of Chickamauga. He is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has attended, as a representative of his post, all the department encampments, and has several times been elected as a representative from the state-at-large to the national encampment. In politics Mr. Timme is an ardent Republican, having held important positions in the party organizations and been of much service therein. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Modern Woodmen [image: ERNST G. TIMME.] of America. He is not a member of any church, but a believer in the "Golden Rule" and the efficacy of the life or conduct that is governed thereby. Mr. Timme was married on the 25th of March, 1867, to Miss Carrie J. Maas. Of this marriage there were born three boys and five girls, but only one son and two daughters are now living. RYLAND, George Washington, ex-state senator, ex-lieutenant-governor, and vice-president of the State Bank of Grant county, a resident of Lancaster, was born December 19th, 1827, near Selbysport, Garrett county, Maryland, the son of Sylvester Ryland, a farmer in limited financial circumstances, who was born in 1796, and died on the farm where he was born, at the age of seventy-eight years. His ancestor, Paul Ryland, came to this country from England in 1750, at the age of twenty years, settling in Berks county, Pennsylvania. He married and had three sons, John, Andrew and James. He and his oldest son were in the Continental army with Washington, the son being a regimental wagon- maker. Of these Page 248 [image: GEORGE WASHINGTON RYLAND.] sons, John settled in Maryland, and from him Geo. W. Ryland is descended. The second son, Andrew, settled in Kentucky, and a number of his descendants drifted into Missouri, where some of them gained prominence--one as judge of the supreme court of the state, and two others also became judges. The third son died young. Mr. Ryland's mother, Hannah Collier, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and died at the age of sixty-two. Her mother, born in 1764, was of German descent. Her father, born in 1766, was of English and Dutch ancestry. He was a soldier in General Braddock's army, on his expedition against the Indians. Young Ryland had but limited opportunities for schooling while at home, they being confined to one or two months during the winter. When he reached his majority he left home and began life anew by attending a graded school for five months, working mornings, evenings and Saturdays for his board. After this he worked on a farm during the summer months, for twelve dollars per month, and taught district schooling during the winter. This was in the days when the teacher "boarded around" among the patrons of his school. In this way he passed four years, and, in April, 1853, came west, settling in Lancaster, Wis., where he has continuously resided since. His first work there was done in the harvest field for Wisconsin's first governor, Nelson Dewey, at a dollar a day. The field in which he did this work in now in the heart of the city of Lancaster. In the fall of 1853, Mr. Ryland entered the general store of John Alcorn as clerk, and this engagement lasted fifteen months. He then formed a partnership for general mercantile business with Simon E. and John P. Lewis, the firm name being G.W. Ryland & Co. This partnership was dissolved in 1860. He then bought the business of Geo. H. Cox, and in the fall of the same year J. C. Holloway, his brother-in-law, became associated with him in the business. In 1863 the firm built the first three-story building erected in Lancaster, now known as the Baxter block. In 1888, he, with several other citizens, established the State Bank of Grant county, of which he is now the vice-president, and to the affairs of which he devotes the greater part of his time. In 1861 Mr. Ryland was appointed post-master by President Lincoln. He had held the office for a short time under President Pierce, and was in possession of it when President Buchanan came into office. As he had shown, in several ways, his affiliation with the Republican party, had cast his first presidential vote for Fremont, and his sympathies were on the side of the Union, he was naturally a person non grata to the Buchanan administration. During the war Mr. Ryland held a recruiting commission, and, in this position, did much to sustain the government in its struggle with the rebellion. In 1872 he was a delegate to the national Republican convention that renominated Grant for president. Mr. Ryland has filled many local officers--was chairman of his town for eighteen years, and chairman of the county board, containing thirty- nine members, for fifteen years. In 1879 he was Page 249 elected to the senate from the Sixteenth district, and re-elected in 1881. In 1886 he was elected lieutenant-governor and re-elected in 1888. During his first term he was, owing to the illness of Gov. Rusk, for some time acting governor, and the duties of that position were discharged with such dignity and ability that he made a very favorable impression upon all those having official business with him; and, in 1894, was prominently mentioned for the nomination for governor. He joined the Odd Fellow in March, 1852, at Petersburg, Pa., and is a charter member of the Mississippi Valley Lodge, No. 86, at Lancaster, 1855, and is still a member in good standing. Gov. Ryland was married on the 10th of September, 1855, to Nancy A. Logsdon of Lancaster. She died on the 7th of November, 1856, leaving one child, a son, who died February 14th, 1860. Mr. Ryland was married a second time, on the 9th of May, 1860, to Miss Elvira M. Holloway of York, Livingston county, N. Y. There are no children by this marriage. Mr. Ryland was brought up a Methodist, but since 1860 has been an attendant of the Congregational church, of which his wife is a member. In all his relations, both public and private, his life has been characterized by scrupulous integrity and honor, and that "charity which suffereth long and is kind." KILLILEA, Henry James, one of the young lawyers of Milwaukee who has achieved no little distinction for one of his age, is a native of Wisconsin, having been born in the town of Poygan, Winnebago county, June 30th, 1863. His parents, Matthew and Mary Murray Killilea, were born in Ireland, but came to Wisconsin in 1849, and settled in Winnebago county, which was then practically a wilderness. There they made a comfortable home, however, which they have ever since occupied. There the boy, Henry, grew up, devoting himself, as most farmers’ [image: HENRY JAMES KILLILEA.] boys are compelled to do, to work on the farm and to attendance, during the winter, upon the district school. At the age of twelve he was sent to the graded school in the neighboring village of Winneconne, and afterward to the normal school in Oshkosh, in which he was fitted for college. During these years he was engaged in the work on the farm whenever the school did not claim his time, and in this way he has acquired that vigorous physical health which he has always enjoyed. After completing his preparation for college the taught school in Clay Banks, Door county, and Oakwood, Wisconsin, the latter, if not a high school, at least of higher grade than the ordinary country school. Though not expecting to make teaching a life business, he was a thorough and very successful instructor, and, had he chosen to make teaching a profession, he would doubtless have been as successful in it as he has been in the law. Through teaching he secured a mental development which has been of advantage to him since, and, at the same time, the money with which to prosecute his studies, though this was not absolutely necessary, as his Page 250 parents were in sympathy with his desire for a professional life, and not averse to aiding him in accomplishing it. In the fall of 1882, when but little past his nineteenth birthday, he began directly his professional studies by entering the law department of the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1885. Always a close and careful student he was at the same time greatly interested in all kinds of athletic sports and a participants in most of those practiced at colleges. Upon leaving the university he came directly to Milwaukee, formed a partnership in the law with Paul M. Weil, and began the practice of his profession. The partnership with Mr. Weil was dissolved in 1887, and another formed with Oscar Fiebing, and this firm was very successful in building up a large practice. At first Mr. Killilea gave much of his attention to criminal practice, and was very successful in handling this class of cases. Possessing a thorough knowledge of law, good judgment in the arrangement of his cases, quick to perceive the strong and the weak points of evidence, skillful as an examiner and effective in presenting his case to a jury, he has rapidly gained a standing at the bar which is not surpassed by many older in the profession. As one of the attorneys of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company he had entered upon a new and broader field of effort, to which his friends are confident he will prove himself entirely equal. In politics he is a Democrat, and he has been one of he most prominent and influential of the young leaders of the party. He was three years a member of the Democratic state central committee and three years chairman of the county committee. The only office which he has held is that of member of the school board. He was one of the organizers of the West bank, and is now one of is directors. He was married, in 1888, to Miss Louise Meinderman, a native of Michigan, and a graduate of the university of that state. ROSE, David Stuart, resides at 644 Jefferson street, Milwaukee, and is the son of James, R. Rose, who is of Scotch descent, and who was educated at the Albany Academy New York, studied law with Abram Becker, began practice there, and held successively the offices of city attorney, chief clerk of the assembly and attorney for the state canal commissioners. He was a Democrat in politics, was active in the affairs of his party, and was a member of the Albany regency, which by reason of the influence that it exercised in local politics and even in the affairs of the national democracy, gained a widespread notoriety, and exercised great political power. In 1852 he came west and settled Darlington, La Fayette county, where he formed a partnership with Judge Cothren in the law business, which continued for some years, to the great advantage of both partners. The mother of the subject of this sketch, Phoebe Anna Rose, nee Budlong, is of German descent, and is a graduate of the normal school at Albany, New York. She removed with her parents from their home in Watertown, New York, and settled in Darlington, Wisconsin where she was soon after married to Mr. Rose, and where David S. Rose was born on the 30th of June, 1856. The boy received his early education in the common schools of his native village and in the Darlington high school. He left school at the age of fourteen years and served a three years' apprenticeshhip at the printer's trade. At the age of seventeen he began the study of law in the office of Cothren & Rose at Darlington; and while pursuing his legal studies, he taught school for three consecutive winters, but, on June 30th, 1876, he was admitted to the bar, and immediately began practice, which he has continued uninterruptedly to the present time. The most important criminal cases in which he has been employed as counsel for the defense were the following: State of Wisconsin vs. Meighan et al., tried in the circuit court of La Fayette county, March, 1892, for the murder of Anton Sieboldt by lynching. There were Page 251 seven defendants, and all were acquitted upon the special plea of insanity; and the State of Wisconsin vs. Robert Luscombe, tried in the municipal court of Milwaukee county, July, 1895, for the murder of Emil Sanger. In civil practice he has been retained in my cases involving corporation and commercial law. He was attorney for Mayor P. J. Somers in the trial for impeachment brought by Garrett Dunck against that official; and for John Fitzer, who contested the seat of Edward Scofield in the state senate in 1891. In all of these cases he was successful in behalf of his clients. In 1888 Mr. Rose gave up his practice in Darlington, and removed to Milwaukee, where he has built up a large and lucrative business, and where he has become one of the leading members of the bar. Judge Rose was elected mayor of Darlington in 1883, and re-elected in 1884. In the same year he was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Chicago. In 1885 he was elected county judge of La Fayette county, and served three years. Some two years after removing to Milwaukee, or in 1890, he was an independent candidate for city attorney, but was defeated. In 1894 he was at Democratic candidate for congress in the Fourth district, but was defeated by Theobald Otjen. Defeat, however, does not discourage him or dampen his ardor for his party and the principles which it represents. He is ready to step to the front a sits leader if it calls for him, or to take a place in its ranks, if by so doing he can advance the principles to which he has been devoted from his youth. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Heptasophs, Fraternal Alliance, and the Bon Ami and Deutscher clubs. In September, 1887, he was married to Margaret E. Blakely. A man of irrepressible energy, of great perseverance and tenacity of purpose, a pleasing and effective speaker, of fine presence and attractive [image: DAVID STUART ROSE.] personality, still a young man and in the full vigor of his mental and physical powers, he may reasonably look forward to the accomplishment of great things both in private life and public affairs. END PART 8