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On the 9th of October, 1907, Mr. Noyes was united in marriage to Mrs. Dell Trueman Kerr of Kansas City, Missouri, and they have become parents of two children, John T. and Harry J., Jr. Mr. Noyes is a member of the Milwaukee Ath- letic Club. also of the University Club, of the Beta Theta Pi, a college fraternity, and also of the Theta Nu Epsilon. He likewise has membership in the Milwaukee Association of Commerce and cooperates heartily in all plans of that organization for the city's upbuilding and benefit. During the World war period he participated in all the drives which gave financial support to the government, or which in any
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way furthered the interests of the American army in its connection with the allied forces overseas. He has always felt a justifiable pride in his native city and his labors have been a tangible element on the side of progress and advancement here.
CELESTINO FERNANDEZ.
Celestino Fernandez. engaged in cigar manufacturing in Milwaukee under the name of the C. Fernandez Company, was born in Aviles, Spain, September 8, 1869, and spent the first twelve years of his life in that sunny land, after which he went to Havana, Cuba. There he engaged in clerking in the tobacco department of a general store and learned much concerning the grading and selection of tobacco. He remained on the island for five years, then crossed to Tampa, Florida, where he resided for two years and in that city learned the cigar-making trade. He afterward removed to Chicago, where he continued for a short time and in 1894 came to Mil- waukee, where he established a cigar manufacturing business under the style of B. Fernandez & Brother. This association was continued until the death of the brother, when the firm name of C. Fernandez Company was adopted. He is engaged in the manufacture of cigars for the wholesale and retail trade, his original brand being the well known Mi Carmin, which had a very large sale. His leader today is M. A. C. The excellence of the product turned out from his factory insures a liberal sale and the business is constantly growing.
Mr. Fernandez was united in marriage to Miss Ida Beusch, a daughter of John Beusch. He finds his greatest pleasure when accompanied with his family he takes trips into the open, being a great lover of the woods. He also has the keenest ap- preciation for music and is frequently seen at the hest musical entertainments of the city. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church and politically he maintains an independent course. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, also to the Association of Commerce and along trade lines has membership in the Pro- tective Association of Tobacco Dealers. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the United States, for here he has found the business oppor- tunities which he sought and in their employment has reached a creditable point of success.
FRANK B. GOLLEY, M. D.
Dr. Frank B. Golley, a pioneer physician and surgeon of Milwaukee, inasmuch as he has practiced continuously in this city for forty-three years, was born in Lee Center. New York, on the 24th of August, 1855. His father, Andrew Golley, also a native of the Empire state, was of Scotch-Irish lineage, his parents having come from the north of Ireland, although the family is of Scotch descent. The paternal grandfather was Joseph Golley, who became the founder of the family in the new world. He was born in the north of Ireland in 1777, while his wife, Mrs. Ann Golley, was born in 1789. The birth of their son, Andrew Golley, occurred at Lee, New York, May 4, 1814. He devoted his life to the occupation of farming. He married Ellen McClusky, who was born at Boonville, New York, November 10, 1830. They became the parents of six children, three sons and three daughters, who came to bless the marriage of this worthy couple, which was celebrated on the 4th of July, 1854. Dr. Golley is the eldest of this family. His mother passed away October 24, 1877, at the age of forty-seven years, while the father departed this life on the 2d of February, 1899, at the venerable age of eighty- four.
Dr. Golley was largely reared in his native town and after completing his early studies in the public schools of Lee Center, New York, he became a medical student in the University of Michigan, which conferred upon him his professional degree in 187S. He then went east for further study and matriculated in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York, from which he was graduated in 1879. The same year he came to Milwaukee, where he has practiced throughout the intervening period, covering ahout forty-three years. He has long been recognized as a man of pronounced ability in his chosen profession. While methods of practice have changed decidedly since he completed his studies in the University of Michigan and in an eastern college, he has by broad reading kept thoroughly in touch with the trend of modern progress, adopting all new methods and ideas which his judgment sanctions as of value to the physician and surgeon in his efforts to check the ravages of disease and restore normal health conditions. He has long been a valued member of the Milwaukee County Medical Society and the Wisconsin State Medical Society.
On the 28th of November, 1898, Dr. Golley was married to Mrs. Celena Cain and their children, three in number, are: Frank B., Alhert H. and Paul, the eldest being Vol. III-34
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now a senior in the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Golley is a Knights Templar and thirty-third degree Mason, having long been a stalwart follower and faithful exemplar of the teachings and high purposes of the craft. His career has been one of service to his fellowmen and the worth of his work as he has followed his profession can scarcely be overestimated. He has held to high standards of medical and surgical practice and bis ability is widely attested throughout the city, for his position is that of a loved family physician in many of the leading households of Milwaukee.
WHEELER PECKHAM BLOODGOOD.
Wheeler Peckham Bloodgood, lawyer, was born in Milwaukee, November 4, 1871. His parents were Francis and Josephine M. (Colt) Bloodgood. He is a member of the firm of Bloodgood, Kemper & Bloodgood, established in 1854 by his father, Francis Bloodgood, and Wheeler H. Peckham, later of the New York bar. He studied law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1894 and later to the supreme court of the United States. The firm is general counsel in Wisconsin for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Company, and represents many other corporate interests.
On the 14th of September, 1896, Mr. Bloodgood married Elizabeth Twombly Farrand of Detroit, danghter of a well known surgeon and physician of Detroit. There are four children: Francis J., now a student at the University of Wisconsin, who enlisted at the age of nineteen years and served with the Thirty-second Divi- sion; David Wheeler, the second son, who also attended the University of Wis- consin, and who enlisted at the age of eighteen years. He also served with the Thirty-second Division, and was wounded in the Argonne on the 19th of October. 1918; Hugh Mcclellan; and Elizabeth.
Mr. Bloodgood is a former vestryman and a member of St. Paul's church of Milwaukee. He is a member of the Milwaukee Club, the Milwaukee Athletic Club, Town and City Clubs of Milwaukee, Oconomowoc Country Club, Oconomowoc Yacht Chib, Union League Club of Chicago, City Club of New York and the Madison Club, at Madison, Wisconsin. He is a Mason, a member of Lafayette Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Milwaukee, Calumet Chapter, No. 73, R. A. M., and Ivanhoe Com- mandery, No. 24, K. T.
Mr. Bloodgood is a member of the American Bar Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association and the Milwaukee Bar Association. He was the chairman of the Wisconsin Defense League, the first war organization formed in America. He is a member of the executive committee of The National Civic Federation and is active in the affairs of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is the author of a paper entitled. The Third Line of German Defense and Offense in this Country, and of many other papers on labor and social problems.
ARTHUR JEREMIAH SWEET.
Arthur Jeremiah Sweet, consulting engineer, by his services to his city in the street lighting and city planning fields, has earned a prominent place among those who have helped in especial degree to upbuild Milwaukee.
Mr. Sweet comes of a family which, for several generations, has borne an honor- able part in the annals of Oneida county (P. O. Maynard), New York. Jonathan Sweet, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, born at East Greenwich, Kent county, Rhode Island, came to Oneida county, New York, in 1817, where he purchased a farm of two hundred acres, located about one and one-half mile north of the city of Utica. Jonathan Sweet soon established himself as a successful farmer and a man of affairs in the community. His son, Jeremiah Sweet, followed in the footsteps of his father and worthily upheld the family traditions. A man who combined successful man- agement of his own business with an active interest in public affairs, Jeremiah Sweet became a local leader in the organization of the republican party, as a representative of which party he served in the New York state legislature during the Civil war. William Henry Seward Sweet, son of Jeremiah and father of the subject of this sketch, was educated at Yale College and the Albany (N. Y.) Law School and admitted to the bar just prior to the outbreak of the Civil war. A man of strong idealism and of keen interest in public affairs, Seward Sweet enlisted in the Union army as soon as the magnitude of the Civil war struggle became apparent, serving until the end of the war in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth New York Regiment, in which he rose to the rank of captain. He was captured in the battle of the Wilderness and for nine months was confined in various southern prisons. At the close of the war Seward Sweet removed
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to North Carolina, where he became prominent in political affairs. During the recon- struction period he served as a member of the constitutional convention and of the state senate of North Carolina. Though a strong republican and Unionist, he stood out in aggressive opposition to the dominant "carpetbagger" group that sought to exploit the state for personal ends and became a recognized leader of the minority which opposed abuses of the political power then held by northern newcomers to the state.
Shortly after removing to North Carolina, Seward Sweet married Emily Richard- son, whose father, Horace Richardson, was a well-to-do farmer of Oneida county. The Richardson family was a Massachusetts family of old Revolutionary stock, Samuel Richardson, the first of the line in America, having been one of the founders of Woburn, Massachusetts, about 1635.
Seward Sweet, an only son, during the later years of his father's life came back to live on the Oneida county farm. Here the subject of this sketch was born December 20, 1879.
Arthur J. Sweet received his early education in the district school of his township, in a private school of Utica, New York, and in the Utica Free Academy. Originally planning a teaching career in the field of philosophy, he entered Cornell University and graduated in 1901, with the degree A. B. Changing his plans for his life work, he spent the next two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which time he successfully completed three years work in the course of electrical engineering. In 1903 he entered the employ of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com- pany at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a year later was placed in charge of the efficiency engineering work of the company, this subject being one which was just beginning to receive attention in American shop practice. He continued in this work for the Westinghouse Company until 1906, when he became assistant chief inspector for the Western Electric Company at their Hawthorne (Ill.) plant, in this position continuing his work in the efficiency engineering field. A year later the Westinghouse interests recalled him to their employ and he became illuminating and development engineer for the Westinghouse Lamp Company, with headquarters at Bloomfield, New Jersey. Again it was his lot to take active part in the creation of a new line of scientific specialization, illuminating engineering. This employment was destined to determine the subject of his active work for many years.
In 1909 he became assistant chief engineer of the Holophane Company at Newark, Ohio, later becoming commercial engineer of that company. During this period he undertook, on behalf of his company, an analytical and research study of the street lighting problem considerably more extensive and exhaustive than any study made theretofore or thereafter in the decade next following. This work brought him con- siderable prominence and scientific standing in his profession but incurred the hostility of certain powerful commercial interests in the electrical field.
At this time, Milwaukee's street lighting service was at a particularly low level, with one possible exception being the poorest of any city of similar size in America. Mr. Sweet's street lighting studies had convinced him that changing social conditions were demanding radically higher standards of street lighting service than those which characterized even the foremost practice of American cities; and he believed these new standards were attainable without great increases in cost by eliminating certain very serious elements of waste then characteristic of street lighting practice.
In 1913 Mr. Sweet removed to Milwaukee to engage in consulting practice as a member of the engineering firm of Vaughn, Meyer & Sweet, with the very definite purpose of demonstrating on a large scale his street lighting views by applying same to Milwaukee's then existing needs. Mr. Sweet's proposals met with the opposition of The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company and received but little encourage- ment from the Milwaukee common council. He then conceived the ambitious idea of educating the entire community as to the fundamental considerations of the street lighting problem. Pursuing this idea, he inaugurated a speaking campaign before civic, professional, business and social organizations and even before small groups of citizens especially gathered for such addresses. His activities soon gained the support of various civic bodies, with the result that his firm was employed to draw up plans for a new street lighting system. These plans, presented about the middle of 1915, embodied radical advances in street lighting practice yet entailed a cost less than five per cent in excess of the average of the twelve American cities nearest Mil- waukee in size. Opposition to the new street lighting plans remained active and more or less effective for some months, but a referendum in April, 1916, on the question of issuing seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar bonds to carry out the first unit of the new street lighting system, was carried by so overwhelming a vote that further opposition ceased. The completion of the street lighting system and the public ap- proval accorded thereto are matters of recent record at the time this sketch is written. The Milwaukee street lighting system has become a center of influence which is permanently affecting American street lighting practice.
Mr. Sweet has taken an active interest in Milwaukee city planning activities and has been one of the more active members of a group of citizens closely cooperating with
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the Public Land Commission in the development and promotion of a worthy city plan for Milwaukee.
Though lacking some of the qualities required to make a successful practical politician, Mr. Sweet has taken a keen interest in politics, in which his sympathies and views are of a strongly progressive cast. Since the progressive party movement of 1912 in separation from the republican party, Mr. Sweet has been a strong advocate of a new political party. In 1919-20, he served as state chairman for Wisconsin of the Committee of forty-eight, a national movement looking toward a new political party.
March 4, 1907, Mr. Sweet married Dea C. McClusky of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They have two children, Hubert R. and Arthur P. Sweet.
Mr. Sweet's especial contributions to Milwaukee have been an exceptionally com- petent technical knowledge in the fields of street lighting and city planning, together with great energy and political effectiveness in winning public support to his views. At the same time Mr. Sweet has afforded a high example of good citizenship through an active interest in public affairs, a notable honesty and unselfishness of purpose and great energy in promoting those things which he conceives to be to his city's interest.
ANDREW JOSEPH WEBER, M. D.
Dr. Andrew Joseph Weber, a surgeon of marked ability, whose thoroughly pro- gressive and scientific methods have been followed by splendid results in the practice of his profession, has given his attention to professional interests in this city since 1907 but dates his residence in Milwaukee from 1899. He was born on a farm in Wash- ington county, Wisconsin, March 5, 1880, and is a son of Nicholas and Anna C. (Lohman) Weber, both of whom have passed away. The father was a farmer who was born in Luxemburg, Germany, and came to the United States in 1848 with his parents. He remained a resident of Wisconsin throughout the intervening period to the time of his death, which occurred on the 23d of June, 1919, when he was seventy- eight years of age. He had for about three years survived his wife, who died on the 27th of April, 1916.
Dr. Weber was reared on his father's farm and attended the country schools to the age of nineteen years. For several years thereafter he followed business pursuits and in 1899 came to Milwaukee. Here he took up the study of medicine in the old Wisconsin Medical College, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree as a member of the class of 1907. For a year thereafter he was an interne in St. Joseph's Hospital and through the intervening period has practiced continuously in Milwaukee, save for the time of his connection with the army in the World war. He served for ten months as a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps, U. S. A., and was with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas for seven months. With his return to America he resumed private practice and is now serving on the staff of St. Mary's Hospital and also the Emergency Hospital. He belongs to the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Surgical Society and the American Medical Association.
On the 14th of November, 1907. Dr. Weber was married to Miss Elsie Grings of Milwaukee and they have become the parents of two children: Marie, who was born July 13, 1910; and Virginia, born October 8, 1912. Dr. Weber finds his recreation in athletics, bowling and outdoor sports. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and his religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church.
ARTHUR A. TOLLIFFE.
Years ago Milwaukee, the center of a dairy community, was known as the Cream city. With the passing of time, however, her interests have developed along many lines until the city is today a great manufacturing district, while its commercial con- nections reach out to every section of the country. Prominent in the manufacturing field is Arthur A. Tolliffe, the secretary and treasurer of the General Tool and Manu- facturing Company, who though yet a young man is classed with the enterprising and progressive business men of the city. He was born in Palmyra, Wisconsin, August 26, 1891, and is a son of John and Tinny ( Talbert) Tolliffe, who are also natives of Wis- consin. In 1896 they removed to Milwaukee, where they still make their home, and the father has devoted practically his entire life to the occupation of farming.
Arthur A. Tolliffe pursued his education in the public schools of Milwaukee and in Williams Business College before taking up the University of Wisconsin extension course. He started out in the business world with the Allis-Chalmers Company in the carpenter department in 1900 and later was transferred to the office, being given a
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clerical position. He remained with that company until 1908, when he entered the employ of the Falk Company as timekeeper and there continued until 1912. He then left that firm and afterward held various positions until he became associated with the Harsh & Edmond Shoe Company. A year later he left that employ to enter the con- struction department of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, which was then engaged in building the elevated tracks near Allis. He spent a year in the em- ploy of the Power & Mining Company, being connected with the cost department, and then was with the National Brake & Electric Company until he became connected with the General Tool Company, of which he is now the secretary and treasurer. This com- pany manufactures a general and special fine of dies, tools, jigs, etc., and also makes a specialty of the All Rite milking machine. The business career of Mr. Tolliffe has been marked by a steady progression that has brought him to a position of large responsibility. Each step in his career has been a forward one and from each ex- perience in life he has learned the lessons therein contained. Constantly his skill, power and efficiency have increased and he is today one of the well known representa- tives of manufacturing and commercial interests in Milwaukee.
On the 31st of March, 1922, Mr. Tolliffe was married to Miss Jule Joerres, a daughter of Mrs. Pauline Joerres, belonging to one of the old families of this section. Mr. Tolliffe is a Mason, belonging to Kenwood Lodge, No. 303, A. F. & A. M., and he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, being connected with National Lodge, No. 141, and also with the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. He has membership in the South Side Gymnasium Association, formerly known as the South Side Turnverein, and is a member of its board of trustees. In religious faith he is an English Lutheran, connected with the Church of the Ascension. He enjoys motoring, athletics and out- door sports and at one time was very active in athletic circtes, but the engrossing demands of his business have made this more and more impossible as the years have gone by. He has led a life of intense and well directed activity, and although yet a young man, his position in the business world is truly an enviable one.
WILLIAM JAMES MUCKLE.
The history of a city is best told in the record of its commercial and industrial development, and prominent in this connection is William James Muckle, the president and general manager of the Rich Shoe Company of Milwaukee. He was born near Belfast, Ireland, January 28, 1866, a son of David and Eliza Jane (Crawford) Muckle, both of whom were natives of the Emerald isle. They emigrated to Canada in 1882 and settled near Halifax, Nova Scotia. The father was a blacksmith by trade and followed that pursuit for many years in Nova Scotia, where he passed away in 1916. His widow stift resides in that country.
William James Muckle was educated in the public schools of Belfast and after- ward learned the shoemaker's trade in his native city, serving a four years' apprentice- ship. At that time the training was such as to familiarize one with the making of shoes in every way. for the trade at that period was not a specialized affair where an individual did but one part of the work. In 1882 Mr. Muckle accompanied his parents to Canada and continued to work at his trade in Halifax for two years. He after- ward removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and there was employed at bench work in the line of shoemaking for a period of two years. Later he took up his abode in Rochester, New York, where he engaged in factory work as a shoemaker and acquainted himself with all of the details of shoe manufacturing. Steadily advancing as he de- veloped his skill and efficiency in that connection, he eventually became superintendent of several factories. He was superintendent at Syracuse, New York, for John Gray for five years and afterward returned to Rochester, New York, where he acted as super- intendent of a number of shoe manufacturing concerns.
In 1910 Mr. Muckle came to Milwaukee as superintendent of the Rich Shoe Com- pany and in 1916 was advanced to the position of general manager, while in 1917 he was elected to the presidency of the company and remains at the head as the leading executive officer, giving his attention now to the general administration of the business. He has had thorough training in the manufacture of shoes and knows every detail of the work, so that he is able to instruct and assist an employe at any time. He has built up a very fine business in the manufacture of women's fine footwear. The trademark of the company is the "Julia Marlowe." It manufactures women's shoes exclusively and its output has found a ready sate all over the country, while it also enjoys a considerable foreign trade. Its employes number two hundred in normal times and the concern occupies the entire building, which is five stories in height.
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