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When not bound down to the performance of his professional work, which has con- tinually developed in volume and importance with the passage of years, Dr. Bach finds recreation and relaxation in outdoor sports, his main hobby being fishing and hunting in the great north woods.
FRANKLIN T. SMITH.
Franklin T. Smith is an active and successful representative of industrial interests in Milwaukee as the treasurer of the Marvel Clutch Company, which he organized for the manufacture of power transmission appliances in 1917. His birth occurred in Appleton, Wisconsin, on the 14th of July, 1864, his parents being Augustus Ledyard and Edna J. (Taylor ) Smith, who were natives of Connecticut and Rhode Island, respec- tively. The father came west to this state in 1855 and accepted a position as instructor in the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he met and married Miss Edna J. Taylor, whose parents had taken up their abode in that city on removing westward from Rhode Island. In 1861 Augustus L. Smith removed to Newport, Rhode Island, where he became instructor of mathematics in the United States Naval Academy, which had been moved there from Annapolis, Maryland, for the period of the Civil war. In 1864 he returned to Wisconsin and was put in charge of the Green Bay & Mississippi Canal Company at Appleton. He also organized the First National Bank of Appleton, of which he served as president for over twenty years, making the institution one of the strong moneyed concerns of that part of the state. He passed away in 1902, having for a number of years survived his wife, who was called to her final rest in 1894.
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Franklin T. Smith, the younger of their two sons, obtained his early education in private schools and later pursued a course of study in Lawrence University at Appleton, Wisconsin, while subsequently he matriculated in the Wesleyan University, which con- ferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1884. He also spent a year in universities of Berlin and Munich and had three years' professional training as a student in the law department of Harvard University, from which institution he received the degree of LL. B. at his graduation in 1890. The degree of Master of Arts had been conferred upon him by Wesleyan University in 1887. Coming to Milwaukee in the year 1890, he here began the practice of law as senior partner in the firm of Smith, Weller & Goff, which remained in existence until he abandoned professional work of that char- acter and went abroad. He returned to his native country at the end of four years and has since been a resident of Milwaukee. He is interested in various enterprises and in 1917 organized the Marvel Clutch Company, of which he is treasurer and the continued growth of which is attributable in substantial measure to his unfaltering enterprise, business ability and careful control.
In Milwaukee, in 1893, Mr. Smith was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Eliot, a daughter of Robert Eliot, who was one of the prominent grain commission men of this city, having arrived here in 1857. He was a direct descendant of John Eliot, a mis- sionary to the Indians of Massachusetts, known as "the Apostle of the Indians." Mrs. Smith, who was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Colonial Dames, passed away on the 8th of April, 1919, her demise being the occasion of deep and widespread regret, for she was well known and highly esteemed throughout Milwaukee. Her parents, as well as those of Mr. Smith, were descended from ancestors of Revolutionary war fame. Mr. and Mrs. Smith became the parents of three children: Mary Eliot, who is now the wife of William Osborn Goodrich, Jr .; Robert Eliot, who was graduated from Harvard University in 1922; and Augustus Ledyard ( III), a sopho- more at Harvard.
Mr. Smith has always maintained an independent political attitude but has kept well informed on the vital questions and issues of the day and has supported the men and measures that he has deemed favorable to the general welfare. During the period of the World war he was one of the Four-Minute speakers in connection with the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives and also became a member of the American Protective League. That he is appreciative of the social amenities of life is indicated in his mem- bership in the Mitwaukee Club, the Milwaukee Country Club, the City Club, the Old Settlers Club and the Town Club. In travel he finds needed rest and recreation and thus he has become familiar with the countries of Europe as well as with Egypt and other parts of the eastern hemisphere.
JOSEPH HENRY CARROLL, M. D.
Dr. Joseph Henry Carroll, a Milwaukee surgeon of enviable standing in professional ranks, was born in this city July 4. 1884, and is the only son and the youngest in a family of five children, whose parents were Charles and Mary Carroll. The former, now deceased, was a railroad man who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The mother, a native of Rhode Island, is now living with her son at the age of nearly eighty years.
Dr. Carroll was reared in Milwaukee, where he pursued his early education and was graduated from the West Division high school with the class of 1900. Through the succeeding four years he was employed as a clerk in the old First National Bank and he devoted the years 1906 and 1907 to an academic course in Marquette College. From 1907 until 1911 he was a student in the medical department of Marquette Univer- sity and won his professional degree at graduation with the class of 1911. For six years he was associated in the practice of surgery with Drs. W. C. F. Witte and Peter Jobse but since 1918 has practiced alone, his ability gaining him wide recognition.
During the World war Dr. Carroll enlisted as a volunteer and served for twelve months with the rank of first lieutenant at Camp Greenleaf, Fort Hancock and Fort Snelling, being discharged from the last named place following the close of the war.
Dr. Carroll is a Roman Catholic in religious faith. He finds recreation in fishing and he belongs to the Milwaukee Athletic Club and also to the University Club. He is now assistant professor of clinical surgery in Marquette University and is proving a capable educator as well as a successful practitioner. He is connected with the sur- gical staff of the Emergency Hospital, the Milwaukee County Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital and his hospital work has been of great value to the public. He has mem- bership in the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine, the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the Tri-State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He never deviates from a course which he believes to be right
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and yet he is constantly changing his opinions because of his continued study and research, whereby many truths are revealed to him that have to do directly with the benefit to be derived through scientific methods of medical and surgical practice.
HENRY DANISCHEFSKY.
Henry Danischefsky, who for six years was vice president of the Pabst Brewing Company and formerly a prominent contractor and builder of Milwaukee, was born March 18, 1877, in the city which is still his home, his parents being Charles and Lena ( Brandt) Danischefsky, both of whom were natives of Greiffenberg, Germany. In the yerr 1867 they heard and heeded the call of the west, crossing the Atlantic and estab- lishing their home in Milwaukee. The father, a mason by trade, served as foreman in connection with business interests of that time for many years and for a quarter of a century engaged in the mason contracting business on his own account, winning a place of leadership among the builders of the city. He also firmly established himself in public regard as a most progressive and representative citizen and one who in every relation of life commanded the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. To him and his wife were born four children, three daughters and a son: Ida, the wife of Fred Mallitz; Hannah, the wife of Carl Bredermann; Gussie; and Henry.
The last named was a pupil in the public schools of Milwaukee, passing through consecutive grades until he completed his education by graduation from the high school. with the class of 1892. He served an apprenticeship to the mason's trade under the direction of his father and upon completing his term he went to Chicago, where he initiated his business career by entering the employ of the Terra Blanca Fire Proofing Company, filling the position of factory foreman and also having charge of outside work for the firm. When two years had been spent in that connection he established busi- ness on his own account, although a young man of but twenty years. Success attended him from the beginning and he became prominently known as a building contractor, having been employed by some of the largest and most important business concerns of the city. Many splendid structures in Milwaukee stand as a monument to his skill, enterprise and business worth. He has been accorded large contracts by the Schlitz Brewing Company, the Falk Company, Geuder & Paeschke, Manufacturers, the Northern Glass Works, William R. Frangen & Company, for whom he built warehouses and he was also the builder of the new St. Mary's Hospital and the State Normal School. He was also the contractor who was in charge of the construction of the residence of Joseph Uihlein and for a number of years he figured most actively and prominently in building circles. In 1912 he became identified with the Pabst Brewing Company as manager of the real estate department and a little later was elected vice president of the corporation.
On the 11th of October, 1900, Mr. Danischefsky was united in marriage to Miss Clara Sengbusch of Milwaukee, and a daughter of William and Sophia (Daase) Seng- busch, and they have become parents of two children: Loraine and Roy.
In his political views Mr. Danischefsky has always heen identified with the repub- lican party but has never sought nor desired office as a reward for party fealty. He is prominently known in fraternal circles, having membership with the Masons, attain- ing the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is a prominent figure in club circles, belonging to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Athletic and Ozaukee County Golf Clubs. He is also a member of the real estate board of Milwaukee and of the Association of Commerce and in the latter is serving on the committee on new industries. His labors have been a potent force in the improvement and upbuilding of the city along many lines and his cooperation is ever regarded as a valuable asset in the attainment of success, by reason of his keen sagacity and sound judgment.
PATRICK CUDAHY.
Patrick Cudahy, who at the time of his death was rated as one of the wealthiest men of Milwaukee, started out in the business world in a grocery store with a salary of but one dollar and a half per week. His steady advancement was the direct result of close application, capability, thoroughness and determination. His record may well serve as a source of encouragement and inspiration to others, showing what may be accomplished through individual effort. Mr. Cudahy was born in Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland, and when a mere child was brought by his parents to America. The family made their way direct to Milwaukee, the children of the household being Patrick. Michael, John and Catherine. Two younger brothers, William and Edward, were born in this country. Edward, one of the four Cudahy hrothers who made the name famous
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throughout the world, is the only one who survives. When Patrick Cudahy was four- teen years of age he started out in the business world by securing employment with Edward Roddis, a packer, at a wage of three dollars per week. He early recognized the value of industry and determination and he was trained in habits of economy from necessity, as the family was in somewhat straitened financial circumstances. The habits of life, therefore, which he developed at an early age constituted most important elements in his later success. After leaving the employ of Mr. Roddis he was con- nected with the Plankinton and Layton Packing companies for several years and acquired intimate and thorough knowledge of the business. In 1874 he accepted the position of superintendent with the Plankinton and Armour companies at a salary of sixteen hundred dollars a year. The worth of his work was so manifest to the company that in the following year his salary was advanced to two thousand dollars and he was given a sixteenth interest in the business. A large purchase of pork just before a notable rise in market prices brought to the company large profits, Mr. Cudahy's share amounting to fifty thousand dollars. He continued to increase his holdings in the company from time to time by acquiring other stock and at the death of Mr. Plankin- ton in 1888, Mr. Cudahy was holding a half interest in the business. Later in the same year he leased the Plankinton plant and continued its operation for five years, or until 1893, when the city of Cudahy was platted and the firm of Cudahy Brothers there began operations. Today the corporation is numbered among the largest exporters of pork in the world and sixty per cent of its business is with Great Britain. The rapid growth and development of the business seems almost phenomenal and yet back of this steady advancement was the well earned experience, the keen sagacity and the unfaltering enterprise of Patrick Cudahy. The city of Cudahy, of which he was the founder and promoter, has today a population of more than six thousand. In 1901 the company slaughtered five hundred thousand hogs and did a business amounting to seven million dollars. In 1918 it slaughtered eight hundred and ninety-one thousand two hundred and sixteen hogs, thirty-four thousand cattle, seven hundred sheep and nineteen thou- sand calves and its business amounted to forty-three million dollars. In 1918 the company paid in wages one million five hundred and five thousand dollars, the average number of employes being sixteen hundred. The business represents a total invested capital of four million eight hundred thousand dollars. In his annual statement Mr. Cudahy pointed with pride to the fact that the company had done its full share in supplying meats during the war, for the soldiers overseas.
Mr. Cudahy was also a director of the First Wisconsin National Bank and the presi- dent of the bank, O. C. Fuller, said: "The untimely death of Mr. Cudahy was a great shock to me. 1 regard his passing as a great loss to Milwaukee as a community and as a great personal foss. I was very fond of Mr. Cudahy and through our relations with him as a director of the Wisconsin Trust Company had occasion to see him very often." Many others who were closely associated with him bore testimony to the sterling traits of his character and many of the highly admirable forces of his life.
In 1878 Mr. Cudahy was united in marriage to Miss Anna Madden, a school teacher of Milwaukee, and they became the parents of nine children, of whom five daughters and two sons survive, namely: Mrs. Louis A. Dahlman; Mrs. A. C. Beck; Mrs. Lansing Hoyt; Mrs. W. R. Helmholz; Mrs. T. Ferdening of Dayton, Ohio; and Michael and John Cudahy, who are the managers of the Cudahy Brothers Company. The four daughters first named make their home in Milwaukee and all of the children were in this city at the time of the father's death, which occurred on the 26th of July, 1919.
Mr. Cudahy's extensive real estate holdings in Milwaukee were incorporated some years prior to his death under the style of the Cudahy Family Company and in 1915 he turned over the management of the packing business to his son, Michael; but when the two sons, Michael and John, entered military service in the World war, Mr. Cudahy was again compelled to become active in business.
In many affairs of public concern he was deeply and helpfully interested. He was the national vice president of the Friends of Irish Freedom and became an honorary member of the Thomas Davis branch of that organization in Milwaukee. He was also made an honorary member of Division No. 1 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. For an extended period he was identified with the Association of Commerce and was deeply interested in all of its plans and projects for the public welfare. He likewise belonged to the Old Settlers Club and he always greatly enjoyed his association with the early residents of Milwaukee-they who were active together in laying the foundation upon
which has been built the present progress and prosperity of the city. He was often offered most substantial indncements to engage in business elsewhere, but he remained stanchly loyal to this city and did everything in his power to promote public progress and improvement. It has been said by many of his friends that Mr. Cudahy had the unusual faculty of going directly to the heart of any matter that he discussed or in which he took a deep interest. He was always a most valuable director of the bank with which he was thus connected and was always ready to express his opinions frankly and without reservations. Mr. Fuller, the president of the First Wisconsin National Bank, paid him the following tribute: "He had a big heart and was much more gen-
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erous than the public had any idea of. Many of his large contributions to charitable and philanthropic purposes were unknown to the public. During the past four or five years he gave several large sums for charitable purposes through the Wisconsin Trust Company and through the Milwaukee Foundation, in which he took great interest." Thus it was that he was constantly extending a helping hand where aid was needed and in many ways, both directly and indirectly, he contributed to the progress and welfare of the city in which he made his home from the time of his arrival in America. The upbuilding of the great meat packing industry of which he was the head constituted a most forceful and substantial element in the promotion of Milwaukee's commercial greatness and its trade connections. He was a man of broad vision, of keen sagacity and of marked enterprise and he so managed his affairs that results were certain, while in the upbuilding of his own fortunes he contributed in marked measure to the pros- perity and advancement of his city.
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CUDAHY BROTHERS COMPANY.
The Layton and Plankinton Company, the original plant of Cudahy Brothers, was founded in 1844 by John Plankinton and was located in what is known as the Menom- inee Valley, Milwaukee. Mr. Plankinton conducted the business until 1850, when he became associated with Frederick Layton, under the firm name of Layton & Plankinton. The firm prospered.
Messrs. Layton and Plankinton continued to do business in these quarters until 1861, when the firm was dissolved, Mr. Layton retiring. At this time it was the leading packing establishment west of Cincinnati. For three years, from 1861 to 1864, Mr. Plankinton was alone in the business. In 1864 he formed a partnership with Philip D. Armour, later head of the great house of Armour & Company of Chicago. The acces- sion of Mr. Armour with his splendid business abilities and phenomenal capacity for affairs infused fresh energy into the house, and the firm of Plankinton & Armour very soon led the pork packing industry of both hemispheres.
The firm of Plankinton & Armour continued until 1884, when it was dissolved upon the retirement of Mr. Armour. It was immediately reorganized under the firm name of John Plankinton & Company, the change taking place on October 1st of the same year. The new firm consisted of John Plankinton and Patrick Cudahy. This part- nership existed for four years. On October 1, 1888, however, Mr. Plankinton, feeling that he had earned a respite from some of the cares of business and having other interests that required his attention, retired from the establishment with which he had been so long and so honorably associated, and the new firm of Cudahy Brothers Com- pany, composed of Patrick and John Cudahy, was ushered into the business world. Patrick Cudahy was the business manager.
For five years Cudahy Brothers Company continued to do business in the old pack- ing plant. In the meantime a tract of farm land, located about six miles from Mil- waukee, and comprising about seven hundred acres, had been purchased for the present establishment. Business operations were begun in the new plant in November, 1893.
Cudahy Brothers Company was the first industrial enterprise of any nature to locate in what is now known as the town of Cudahy. From a few scattered houses, the village of Cudahy has grown into a town of about seven thousand population and can boast of at least eight large manufacturing plants. When Patrick Cudahy died in July, 1919, the management of the company was left to his sons, Michael F. Cudahy, in the capacity of president and general manager, and John Cudahy, vice president.
EDWARD FURRU.
Edward Furru, president and manager of the Sands Lumber Company of Milwaukee, was born October 13, 1886, in Trondhjem, Norway, a son of Elias Richard and Petra ( Moe) Furru. The father engaged in the wholesale grocery business in the old country to the time of his death. His wife is still living and makes her home in her native country. In the family were two sons and a daughter.
Edward Furru, the second in order of birth, pursued a public and high school education and also a university preparatory course in Norway. After coming to Mil- waukee in 1902, when a youth of sixteen years, he pursued a commercial course in the Spencerian Business College and thus qualified for life's practical and responsible duties. On the completion of his studies he entered the train service of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad and was thus employed for two years. He next became associated with his uncle, John P. Moe, who was identified with the Sands Lumber Company, and in that connection he learned the lumber business in all of its phases and branches. He has remained with the company throughout the intervening years,
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working his way steadily upward, winning promotion from time to time, and in 1917 he was elected president and manager of the corporation. Today the company controls a large trade and the success of the undertaking in recent years is attributable in most substantial manner to the progressive methods and indefatigable enterprise of Mr. Furru.
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On the 18th of November, 1906, Mr. Furru was married in Milwaukee to Miss Mamie Goetzen, a daughter of Henry F. Goetzen, who served on the detective force of the city police department for a long period of years but is now retired. Mr. and Mrs. Furru have become parents of two children, Eugene Richard and Roy Henry, aged, respectively, eight and four years. For recreation Mr. Furru turns to baseball, hunting and outdoor sports. Fraternally he is a Mason who has taken the degrees of both York and Scottish Rites and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. During the World war he assisted in the loan drives and his interest in community affairs is shown in his cooperation with progressive projects of the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, to which he belongs. He is well known in Inmber trade circles, having membership in the Wisconsin Retail Lumber Association and in the National Retail Lumber Association.
ROBERT D. MORAY, M. D.
Dr. Robert D. Moray, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in South Milwaukee, is a native of Brockville, Ontario, Canada. He was born November 12. 1875, of the marriage of Rufus and Isabelle (Campbell) Moray, who were also natives of Ontario and were of Scotch descent. Both have now passed away. The father was a farmer by occupation and was descended from ancestors who came from Morayshire, in the Highlands of Scotland. The grandfather was born in the land of hills and heather and after crossing the Atlantic to America settled in the state of New York. When the Revolutionary war began he remained loyal to the British crown and removed to Canada in order to live in a country that adhered to the cause of Great Britain.
Dr. Moray was reared in Brockville, Ontario, and was graduated from the Brock- ville Collegiate Institute when sixteen years of age. He afterward served a four years' apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, becoming a skilled mechanic and draftsman. He decided, however, to devote his attention to professional interests and in 1901 removed to Milwaukee, where he took up the study of medicine in the old Milwaukee Medical College, being here graduated with the M. D. degree in 1905. He afterward practiced for eight years at Manawa, in Waupaca county, Wisconsin, and for three years was located at Cornell, in Chippewa county, coming in 1916 to South Milwaukee, where he has since remained. In 1921 he built his present home at No. 817 Milwaukee avenne. It is a beautiful modern brick bungalow, in which he has a handsome suite of office rooms, where he takes care of his medical practice. He is surgeon for the Bucyrus Company of South Milwaukee, a big manufacturing concern employing hun- dreds of men.
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