Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, 19th ed., Part 101

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Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago : La Salle Book Co.
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His first employment here was in a grocery

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store at the corner of Cottage Grove Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street, but on his return from Den- mark he engaged in the sale of teas, coffees and similar goods. From 1894 to 1896 he was again a grocer's clerk. In the latter year he became reporter for "Arbejderen," a journal devoted to the interests of Scandinavian working men, and in 1897 was chosen its editor. He held this po- sition some eighteen months, when he again em- barked in business as dealer in teas and coffees. In August, 1899, he again became editor of the same journal, now published at No. 36 North Clark Street, Chicago. He resides at No. 6023 Sangamon Street.

In politics Mr. Glambeck is an ardent Socialist,

having taken an active part in the council of the Socialist Labor party since it was organized in 1886. He has served as secretary of the state committee and has always been a leader. In 1895 he married Miss Katherine Nielsen, a lady born in Denmark. They have two children, Ag- nes and George.

He is a member of the Danish Brotherhood and of the Socialist Labor party. He organized the first Danish branch of the latter society in Chicago in 1891. In fact the Chicago branch was the first Danish branch to be organized in the United States. For the first six months he was its secretary. He is now president of the Scan- dinavian Branch No. I.

NIELS CHRISTENSEN.

IELS CHRISTENSEN was born at Thy, Denmark, December 11, 1863. He is a son of Paul Christensen, a master blacksmith of that place, and who is still living there; his moth- er's maiden name was Mattie Nielsen. Paul Christensen served as a private soldier in the Danish-German war, and is a popular and influ- ential man in his native village.

Niels is the first of four children-two sons and two daughters-all of whom are living. He and one sister, Johanna, are the only ones living in this country. Like most boys of his class in his native country he went to work early. Leaving school at the age of fourteen years he was ap- prenticed to the painter's trade, and after serving a term of four years emigrated to the United States. This was in 1881, when he was a mere youth of eighteen, but he had within him those traits of industry and perseverance which have characterized his later years, and which consti- tute the elements of success.

On reaching America he came at once to Chicago. He experienced no difficulty in finding work at his trade, as a journeyman, and such were liis energy and thrift that two years later he was able to open a shop of his own. His business steadily grew until he employed seven, and sometimes eight men, and he continued to conduct it five years. In 1888 he opened a store for the sale of general hardware in the sanie block where his present establishment is situated. In the follow- ing year he erected a building of his own at No. 1223 Fifty-ninth Street, and in 1891 another at No. 1149, in the same street, which he still owns. In 1895 he built his present store on the adjoining premises, Nos. 1145 and 1147. He lias largely increased his stock of hardware and added tliereto a line of glassware, china and house furnishing goods.

Mr. Christensen is in every sense a self-made man. Arriving at Chicago with a capital of not more than thirty-seven cents he has risen, step

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by step, througli liis own unaided exertions, to the possession of a well earned competence, and in the position of a successful, substantial busi- ness man. The story of such a life is, in itself, a ser111011.

He was married in 1886 to Miss Meba Hall- sen, born in Schleswig-Holstein, in 1863, and the

daughter of a gallant Danish soldier, who was made prisoner by the Germans during the war of 1864. A daughter, Mamie, was born to them in 1888.

Mr. Christensen is a member of John Ericksen Lodge No. 361, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows.

WILLIAM SCHROEDER.

ILLIAM SCHROEDER for a period of forty-seven years Mr. Schroeder has been a resident of Cook County and during a great part of that time a citizen of. Chicago. It is in that city that he has accumulated a competence, through his own labor, and to it he is sincerely attached. He was born near Grabow, Mecklen- burg, Germany, August 12, 1828. He and his brother, Henry C., were the only children of Christian and Katharine Schroeder, and are mein- bers of a family well known and highly respected in the Fatherland. The father, who was a farm- er, died in Germany, in 1854, and the mother, who crossed the water to her sons the following year, passed away in Chicago in 1880.

William Schroeder was educated at the parochi- al schools, and worked on a farm until drafted into the German army. After performing military ser- vice for the prescribed period, he determined to join his brother Henry, who had come to Chicago in 1851. Accordingly, in 1852, he took passage from Hamburg to New York, in a sailing vessel, and after a voyage of nine weeks, reached his port of destination.

He pursued his journey to Chicago, then a very different place from the metropolitan city of to- day, and first found employment as a farm hand for a Mr. Talcott, at Desplaines. After eighteen months he returned to the city to begin work for

the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad Company, now the Chicago & Northwestern, with which corporation he remained eighteen years, or until just before the conflagration of 1871. By that time, through industry and frugality, he had ac quired sufficient means to enable him to engage in business for himself, and lie opened a grocery at the corner .of West Chicago Avenue and Noble Street. Trade prospered with him; hard work and honesty brought their reward; and in 1883 he sold out his business and retired.

While not in any sense of the word a politician Mr. Schroeder is a strong Republican in political faith, having cast his first vote for Fremont and having been'affiliated with that party ever since. In religious belief he is a Lutheran. He is a member of Robert Blut Lodge, No. 58, Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Germania E11- campment in the same order.

July 5, 1856, he married Miss Louise Stier, who is like himself of German birth. Their union has been blessed with two daughters, Louise and Carrie. The former married J. C. Borgwardt and the latter is the wife of R. O. Krueger. Mrs. Schroeder entered into rest Jan- uary 5, 1889, and her grave is at Waldheim Ceme- tery.

Mr. Schroeder has passed the limit of three score years and ten allotted by the Psalmist as the span

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of human life and is spending his declining years deprived of the society and comfort of the wife of his younger days, yet he can look back upon a life well spent-a life of usefulness, of integrity

and of success. A kind and generous husband and father and a good citizen, he has furnished an example of domestic and civic virtue well worthy of emulation.

ANTON PAULSEN.

A NTON PAULSEN is a member of the fra- ternity of blacksmiths, his trade being one which developes brawny muscles and at the same time enlarges the mental perception. The natural tendency of men and women is to rev- erence great physical strength; yet the average member of the community utterly fails to com- prehend the truism that the perfect man is not only the highest type of animal life, but that, linked to his immense muscular power, govern- ing and controlling it, is a well disciplined mind and a tender heart. Poets have made the black- smith the subject of their song, and artists have delighted to depict him on their canvas.

Mr. Paulsen, in his own person, presents one of the highest types of his honorable craft. He is still a young man, in the prime of his early manhood, yet he has already accomplished much, while the future holds out bright promise of future achievement. He was born in Jutland, Denmark, May 17, 1872. His father, Paul Paulsen, was a man who walked in a humble path. He was a laborer by occupation, but straightforward and conscientious. Hestill lives in Denmark, as does also his wife, Johanna Soren- sen. They are the parents of four children, two of whom they mourn as dead. Anton is the third, and the only one who has made his home in the New World.

Like most Danish youths of his class, it was

considered necessary that he should learn a trade, and after leaving school, at the age of sixteen years, he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. Four years elapsed before he was admitted to the ranks of the journeymen, and in 1892, his trade ac- quired, he set sail for New York. His first halt- ing place on American soil was Newburgh, New York. From there he proceeded to Quincy, Illi- nois, where he worked at his trade some three years. He spent a short time at St. Louis, and in 1895 came to Chicago.

His first year here was spent as a journeyman, working for daily wages, but at the expiration of that period he found himself able to begin busi- ness on his own account. His patient industry and judicious economy had borne their legitimate fruit. His first shop was located at the corner of State and Thirty-eighth Streets. He makes a specialty of horseshoeing, although doing all descriptions of smithy work as well. He is well known and universally respected in the locality where he lives, and has built up a remunerative business.

Mr. Paulsen has been a member of the Wal- halla Society for two years, and has shown con- siderable interest in promoting its growth and welfare. In 1897 he was united in marriage with Margaret Braaten, a young lady born in Nor- way. Their union has been blessed with one daughter, Johanna.

LIBRARY OF THE NIVERSITY OF ILLI !!

DR. THEODORE NIELSEN

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HEODORE NIELSEN, M. D., resides at Chicago Medical Society and of the Illinois State No. 395 West Chicago Avenue, and is well Medical Association. known and highly esteemed among the In 1885 he became the husband of Miss Anne Jensen, a young lady born in Chicago, but of Danish parentage. Mrs. Nielsen's parents may be reckoned among the city's early settlers, hav- ing settled here before the holocaust of 1871. Dr. Nielsen's marriage has been blessed with three children, of whom one, Ethel, died at the age of six years. Those surviving, Theodore and Esther, are aged, respectively, nine and six years. Danish people of Chicago. His father is Rev. A. S. Nielsen, who is a native of Denmark and was for many years pastor of the oldest Danish Lutheran Church in Chicago. This venerable divine is still living, his home being in Wiscon- sin. Two years ago he was honored by being given the title of Knight of the White Cross, by the present king-Christian-of Denmark. Dr. Nielsen's mother, who is still living, was, before marriage, Johanna Paulsen. They were the parents of eight children, the doctor being the second in order of birth.

Dr. Theodore Nielsen was born at Saby, Den- mark, April 3, 1863. He began attending school in his native country, but his parents caine to America when he was but eight years old. The family first settled at Cedar Falls, Iowa, where young Theodore passed through public schools, subsequently attending the Iowa State Normal School. In 1881 he accompanied his parents to Chicago and began the study of medicine, to which he devoted himself for three years. He next matriculated at the Chicago Medical College, and after taking a course of four years at that institution, graduated. Since then he has been in active practice, although for a period of nine years he also conducted a drug store in partner- ship with his brother. He is a member of the

The doctor is a member of various benevolent and fraternal organizations-the Society Dania, the singing society "Harmonica," the Danish Brotherhood, Danish Young People's Association of Chicago and the United Danish Brotherhood. Of some of these societies, which embrace the feature of insurance, he is the examining physi- cian. As a musician and amateur actor he has attained no little reputation in Danish circles, where his ability as a delineator, elocutionist and musician is highly esteemed. He is at the head of a dramatic and musical association of which he is the organizer. He is also a constant contrib- utor to the Scandinavian press, among whose patrons his articles are always eagerly read.

He has also associated with himself, in profes- sional life, his old friend, Dr. J. A. Hinrichsen, who attends to the outside practice of the firm, Dr. Neilsen chiefly confining himself to office work.

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CHARLES F. SORENSEN.

HARLES F. SORENSEN. Born in the southern part of Sjaland, Denmark, Novem- ber 3, 1862, Mr. Sorensen came to the United States at the age of seventeen, and has been a resident of Chicago for twenty years. His parents were both natives of the same place, where they died, his father at the age of eighty- four and his mother at eighty-two. His father, Paul Nielsen Pohl, was a prominent architect and contractor, well known and highly esteemed in that part of Denmark where he conducted a suc- cessful business. His mother was Bodil Sorens- datter. She bore to her husband three children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the third, the elder two being Carl and Christine Nielsen, who still reside in the country of their birth.

Mr. Sorensen attended the common and high schools of his native place, graduating from the latter in 1878 with a fair knowledge of both Ger- man and English, in addition to the training which he had received in other branches. After leaving school he spent a year in Sweden, where he was employed by a brick mason, and in 1879 sailed for America, coming at once to this city.

His first venture was to purchase an interest in an ice business at the corner of Lake Street and Forty-eighth Avenue. Eighteen months later he embarked in the stationery trade on West Indiana Street, where he continued for three years, when he disposed of his store and for a time worked at

bricklaying. It was not long, however, before he began making contracts on his own account, and after four years of that work he opened an architect's office. In this profession he has since continued, having attained a large measure of success.

Mr. Sorensen had learned the art of a drafts- man at the high school in Denmark, and when but sixteen years old had been awarded a diploma for a proficiency which he owed in great measure to his natural aptitude. He has erected some three hundred buildings in this city, including stores, residences and churches, and has at times employed a large force of men. Among some of the handsome structures of which he has been the designer may be named the following: Gustave A. Mueller's residence, No. 719 Pine Grove Ave- nue, Norwegian Lutheran Church, at the corner of Artesian and Potomac Avenues, the Stockholm Hotel, No. 56 East Chicago Avenue, a fine three- story building on Maplewood Avenue, near Potomac, and an apartment house at the corner of Oakley and Potomac Avenues.

In 1886, at Chicago, Mr. Sorensen was mar- ried to a Danish lady, Miss Leontine Ohlin, who came to America at the age of twenty years. Of the four children born to thein two are still living, Carl and Lillie.

He enlisted as a private in the Second Regi- ment, Illinois National Guard, in 1886 and

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served three years, being promoted to the rank of sergeant. He is a member of Covenant Lodge No. 526, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Nor-

den Lodge No. 699, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the last-named lodge he has held all the offices, and is at present secretary.

EDWARD L. TAUBERT.

DWARD LAWRENCE TAUBERT is prominent among the younger citizens of Chicago who by their own efforts alone have been able to make a showing in the vast and motley people of this city .. He was born April 12, 1870, at No. 518 Sedgwick Street, and has lived nearly all his days inside the great metropolis of the West. His parents were Con- rad and Mary (Muther) Taubert, who are men- tioned elsewhere in this volume.

Edward Lawrence Taubert attended the La Salle public school until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he began to learn the wood carver's business. For five years he remained in this capacity with Burnlike & Wick, on Division Street. He changed to the service of the Chi- cago Fringe Works, on the corner of Quincy Street and Fifth Avenue, where he continued

three years. For the past nine years he has been employed in the interest of E. L. Mansure & Company, at No. 45 Randolph Street. He is a valued and honored employe and is devoted to his occupation.

September 14, 1892, he was married to Miss Jennie Schwartz, a daughter of Martin Schwartz, They became the parents of two children, Walter John, born August 26, 1895, and Edmund George, born November 26, 1897. Mr. Taubert is enterprising and independent of character, thoughtful of the rights of others, but ready to defend his own. He will succeed as only those of his calibre can succeed, and will not be afraid, at any time of his life, to be reminded of his past. His influence is for good and his mind is strong and pure. He is a kind and loving husband, and true, stanch friend.

CHRIST HANSEN.

HRIST HANSEN, the son of Christian five years. The subject of this article was one of Christiansen and Maria Hansen, was born a family of ten children, of whom only two were sons, he himself being the younger. at Copenhagen, Denmark, December 22, 1855. Both of his parents were natives of that His childhood and youth were spent at Copen- hagen, where he attended the common schools until he had reached the age of fourteen years, when his parents deemed it best for him to turn country, where they also died. Mr. Hansen comes of stalwart stock, his father having been a laborer and attaining the ripe old age of seventy-

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his attention to a more active life. Accordingly, when he was fifteen years old he was duly ap- prenticed to a blacksmith to learn that laborious but manly trade. After serving an apprentice- ship of four years he worked as a journeyman in his native city until he came to America in 1893.

On reaching this country he came at once to this city, which has since been his home, and where, through industry and thrift, he has ac- quired a competence. For two years after his arrival here he worked by the day, but in 1895 he opened a shop of his own and started in busi- ness for himself at No. 1442 West North Avenue.

There he remained for a year, when he removed to Wabansia Avenue. Two years later he es- tablished himself at No. 741 West Chicago Ave- nue, where he now conducts the manufacture of carriages, wagons and trucks, besides carrying on an extensive repairing and general black- smithing business.

He was married in Denmark to Miss Alma Hansen, who, like himself, is of Danish birth. They have one daughter, Maria, who lives at home. Mr. Hansen is a member of the order of the Knights of the Maccabees. He subscribes to the faith of the Lutheran Church.

ANTON CHRISTENSEN.

A® NTON CHRISTENSEN, one of the most popular citizens and business men of the Seventeenth Ward of Chicago, was born in the kingdom of Denmark, September 27, 1862. He spent his boyhood in his native place and attended the common schools until he reached the age of fourteen years. After that time he supported himself, apprenticing himself to a cabinet-maker. He mastered the trade in four years, and then traveled as a journeyman in Denmark and Germany. At the age of twenty years he left Europe to seek his fortune in the new world, going first to Liverpool, England, whence he embarked for the island of Cuba. He remained there but two months and then crossed to New Orleans, where he found work at his trade for some months.

In 1883 he decided he would be more at home in the temperate climate of the North, and accord- ingly located in Chicago. For three years he worked in the factory of the Chicago Desk Manu- facturing Company, saving as much as possible of his earnings. He then engaged in the milk business, and soon built up a good retail trade,

later opening a wholesale depot also. In 1894 he disposed of this business, which, however, had proved very lucrative. His genial manners and fair dealing had won him many friends among all classes, and he concluded that he would be equally successful in some other line of business. He therefore opened the Royal Hotel, with sample room and restaurant, at No. 341 Milwaukee Avenue. In this business he has been very suc- cessful, and in supplying the wants of his many patrons he finds his greatest satisfaction. His largely increasing trade shows how well his efforts have been received and proves that in catering to the inner wants of his fellow-men he has found his proper calling.

Since becoming a citizen Mr. Christensen has taken a lively interest in public affairs, fulfilling his duty as a citizen withi commendable thorough- ness. He has always supported the Democratic party and has become a representative man of his ward, his counsel having great weight whenever important political actions are under considera- tion. He is an influential member of the Seven- teenth Ward Democratic Club. Coming as he

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does from the common people and having gained his way in the world in the face of many dif- ficulties, he is able to appreciate their feelings on public questions. Mr. Christensen has been a

member of Wicker Park Lodge No. 81, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Sing- ing Society Harmonien. £ He was married in Chicago in 1893.

MARTIN LARSEN.

M ARTIN LARSEN was born in Langland, Denmark, April 5, 1845, being the third of a family of four children born to Christ Larsen and his wife. Both his parents are de- ceased, his father, who was a wagon-maker, dying when Martin was but two years old.

Until he reached the age of fourteen years, he attended the common schools, on leaving which he worked five years in a grocery, receiving by way of remuneration therefor nothing save his board and clothes. After serving his apprentice- ship he was made a clerk, and filled that position until he came to America in 1872. Chicago was his objective point, but he did not long remain here. Going to the northern peninsula of Michi- gan, he obtained work in the iron mills in that section, but returned to this city in about a year. For the next two years he worked at any sort of honest toil that came to hand, and then embarked in the milk business, establishing himself on Erie Street. In this pursuit he continued some seven-

teen years, when he opened a grocery store. After changing location several times, in 1893 he erected a three-story brick building, containing a store and flats, at No. 745 North Tallman Avenue and removed his business to that point, where he has since remained, commanding a remunerative trade and enjoying the respect of his neighbors and customers.

Mr. Larsen has been twice married. His first wife, Mary Nielsen, to whom he was united in August, 1879, died some three years after mar- riage. Subsequently he married Miss Matilda Petersen, a native of Norway. Mr. and Mrs. Larsen have eight children, Josie, I,onis, Francis, Mary, Lillie, Fred, Alma and James, all of whom live at home.

Mr. Larsen is a member of the Society Dania and was at one time its president; of the Danish Brotherhood, of which, also, he has been chief executive officer, and of the Knights of Pythias In politics he is a Democrat.

CHARLES H. FENTON.

5 HARLES HENRY FENTON, who is truly a well-established citizen of Chicago, is a valued and respected employe of the firm of N. K. Fairbank & Company, occupying the re-

sponsible position of foreman in its tin depart- ment. He was born June 7, 1857, on Twenty- third Street, between South Park and Calumet Avenues. His parents were Henry and Ann

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(Rudd) Fenton, natives of Kent County, England. Henry Fenton met a sad death, being thrown from his wagon and killed, his neck being broken.

Until seventeen years of age the subject of this sketch attended school, after which time he was with Keith Brothers three years, being subse- quently for the same length of time with Field & Leiter. He returned to the service of Keith Brothers, and spent a like period in the employ of that concern. During the past fourteen years he has been identified with N. K. Fairbank & Company, rising from under-foreman to the posi- tion he now occupies. The length of time his services have been retained by the concern proves

the fact that he is esteemed above the average, and his ambition and stability of purpose are to be admired.

May 15, 1889, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Henry Burmeister. Mr. and Mrs. Fenton are the parents of one child, Harold, born Septem- ber 2, 1891. Mrs. Henry Fenton, mother of the man whose name heads this article, resides at No. 4615 Arnold Avenue. She, with her hus- band, were descended from a long line of Prot- estants, Charles H. Fenton being true to the teachings of his fathers. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Knights of Pythias.

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Album of genealogy and biography, Cook County, Illinois, 19th ed., Part 101

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Chicago : La Salle Book Co. Number of Pages: 908

Author:
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago : La Salle Book Co.
Number of Pages: 908