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T. J. JONES
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a six-year basis and its work is known as a cosmopolitan six-year high school course. The West Allis public school system maintains an expert in charge of educational measurements and mental tests, and graduations and promotions are based almost wholly upon investigations of this expert. West Allis today has the only school system in the state where expert efficiency is maintained by an expert on educational affairs. In all of his teaching Professor Jones has maintained the highest standards and he has been president of the Wisconsin Superintendents Association and was appointed in 1920, by the executive committee of the Wis- consin State Teachers Association, to the position of treasurer of that body. How- ever, he resigned on account of the pressure of other work.
On the 19th of August, 1896, at Waukesha, Wisconsin, Professor Jones was married to Miss Ethel Treloar and they had one daughter, Ethel Treloar, who died May 29, 1918. Mr. Jones was very active in all war work, particularly in pro- moting the work among the schools. He stands for all that is helpful and pro- gressive in citizenship but finds comparatively little leisure for interests outside of his profession. He is constantly striving to reach higher ideals and to advance the standards of the schools, and West Allis indeed may be proud of what has been accomplished in connection with her educational interests, which are far superior to those maintained in the majority of the cities of similar size in the United States.
WILLIAM JOSEPH SCOLLARD, M. D.
The name of Scollard has figured prominently in connection with the medical profession in Milwaukee for many years. The present representative, Dr. Willi m Joseph Scollard, is a nephew of Dr. William E. Scollard, who for many years was an active and eminent physician of this city. William J. Scollard was born in Hartford, Wisconsin. September 2, 1880, and is a son of James W. Scollard, who was also born at that place and devoted his life to farming. He married Sarah Smith, who was also born in Hartford, Wisconsin, and is now living in Milwaukee at the age of seventy- five years. James W. Scollard departed this life in 1915. Both were of Irish lineige. Dr. Scollard was reared on the old homestead farm near Hartford and attended the country schools, while later he pursued a three years' course in Marquette College and afterward spent four years as a student in the medical department of the same in- stitution, winning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900 and his professional degree in 1904. Six months were spent as interne in St. Luke's Hospital of Chicago, where he gained broad and valuable experience, and for a similar period he was connected with Trinity Hospital of Milwaukee. In 1905 he entered upon general practice, with office at 631 Grand avenue in Milwaukee, and here he has remained. While he devotes his attention to all branches of the profession, he specializes to some extent in venereal diseases and obstetrics and he is now serving on the staff of the Milwaukee General Hospital and the Misericordia Hospital.
On the 17th of November, 1917. Dr. Scollard was married to Miss Nell Gregory, a rative of Milwaukee. He is fond of motoring and also enjoys fishing and hunting, going into the forest each fall for deer during the open season and never failing to return without a trophy of the chase. His religions faith is that of the Roman Catholic church and he belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He is also a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while his connection in professional lines is with the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
ELTINGE ELMORE.
Eltinge Elmore, widely known as one of the prominent and successful coal dealers of Milwaukee, has by no means, however, concentrated his efforts and attention upon business affairs to the exclusion of other activities which should constitute a phase in the life work of every individual. He is interested in all those forces which make for civic progress and improvement and his cooperation has been actively and helpfully directed along many lines contributing to the general welfare. Mr. Elmore is a native of New Paltz, New York, born on the 10th of April. 1851. His father, Riverious P. Elmore, was a native of Sharon, Connecticut, born on the 18th of April, 1815, and his father was Samuel Elmore, also a native of Sharon and of English descent. Samuel Elmore married Hannah Lyman, who belonged to one of the oldest and best families of New England, closely related to the Beechers and the Trumbulls. Samuel Elmore was a man of prominence in that region which bordered the Hudson river. He owned a public house, as it was then known, and was a successful merchant and also a large vessel owner. Not only did he control and direct important and profitable business
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enterprises but also aided in shaping the political history of his state, becoming a member of the New York legislature and holding numerous local offices. He was at all times a consistent democrat and did everything in his power to promote the growth and. insure the success of the party which he represented. In 1856 he removed to Milwau- kee, where he lived retired until his demise.
When R. P. Elmore was but three years of age his father removed with the family from Sharon, Connecticut, to what was known as Elmore's Corners in Ulster county, New York, and there he acquired his early education, while later he attended a private school in Connecticut. Before he had attained his majority he had established him- self in the mercantile business at Elmore's Landing in the state of New York and there he remained as a successful merchant until 1851, when with his brother he visited a cousin, Andrew E. Elmore, at Mukwonago, Wisconsin. Pleased with the state and its prospects, he removed to Milwaukee in 1851 and here, in connection with his brother, Samuel L. Elmore, he established the firm of S. L. and R. P. Elmore, dealers in coal and fuel. The first ton of coal ever sold in Milwaukee was put out by the Elmores and during the first year of the existence of the firm they marketed six hun- dred and forty tons of coal, which was the entire amonnt sold in this state in that year, and in fact, they were the only coal dealers in Wisconsin at the time. They gradually extended their business to include the manufacturing of pig iron and the enterprise was successfully conducted by the brothers until 1864, when S. L. Elmore retired from the firm, and in 1866 R. P. Elmore was joined by his brother-in-law, Edward R. Paine. Later the business was reorganized under the name of the R. P. Elmore Company, of which R. P. Elmore became the president. The trade steadily grew and expanded and the company easily maintained a leading position in connection with the fuel business of the state. Mr. Elmore enjoyed a most enviable reputation as an able, honest and enterprising business man of the strictest integrity, of sound judgment and of admirable social qualities. He thus left a deep and lasting impress upon the community in which he made his home, Milwaukee losing a valued and repre- sentative citizen when he passed away on the 23d of December, 1897. He had been married in 1837 to Miss Magdalene Eltinge, a daughter of Josiah Eltinge, who resided near Rondout, in the state of New York. Mrs. Elmore passed away in Milwaukee in 1854. In 1856 Mr. Elmore married Elizabeth Paine Bennett, in Elmira, New York.
Eltinge Elmore was but four months old when his parents came to this city, so that practically his entire lite has here been passed. He entered the preparatory school of the Northwestern University at Evanston in 1866 and continued his course until he was graduated from the university in 1872 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then turned his attention to the journalistic field and for a time was connected with the Milwaukee Sentinel as a reporter In 1874 he became identified with his father's coal business as general clerk and in 1885, in connection with the late F. W. Sivyer, he organized the Elmore-Sivyer Company, which later became the Northwestern Malle- able Iron Company. Thus he constantly extended his business connections, developing his powers through the exercise of effort and promoting his efficiency through his experience and study of business problems. In 1887 he was elected to the vice presi- dency of the R. P. Elmore Company and he acted as president during the last ten years of the existence of the company, his father having retired from the business. Follow- ing his father's death in 1897 he was made president and continued as the chief ex- ecutive officer until June, 1901, when the company consolidated with other companies to form the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, of which Mr. Elmore became the first vice president. He retained his interest in the company until October, 1902, when he sold his stock. In the meantime he had purchased a tract of seven thousand acres of land in the northern part of the state and for six years his attention was directed to the development of this tract, on which he cut the timber, specializing in the manu- facure of cedar posts, ties and shingles. He had a sawmill on the property and also a shingle mill and the operation of these mills and the activities resultant thereon made his business one of substantial and gratifying proportions. In 1907, however, Mr. Elmore again entered into the coal trade, organizing the Elmore-Benjamin Coal Company, of which he was president until 1913, when he disposed of his interests. At that date he became identified with coal mining at Jasper, Alabama, on a tract of three thousand acres which produced coal of extremely high grade, and he continued the operation of the mines there until 1920. At the same time he was engaged in the retail coal business in Milwaukee and during the last two or three years he has confined his attention to the coal trade here. conducting a retail and jobbing business in bituminous coal.
Other fields of labor have also benefited by the efforts, business ability and enter- prise of Mr. Elmore, who became interested in the International Kiwanis Club and its work, strongly endorsing its principles. Accordingly he went out into the state, assist- ing in the formation of new Kiwanis Clubs, and was very active in founding clubs in Wisconsin. He became the secretary of the Kiwanis Club of Milwaukee in 1918 and continued to fill that position for two and a half years. He remains an energetic factor in the organization and is now its field representative. For six years Mr. Elmore was
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a director of the Association of Commerce and for seven years president of the retail merchants division of that organization. For a period of ten years he has been the treasurer of the Wisconsin Home and Farm School Association, which takes care of such homeless or friendless boys as need help and endeavors to make of them good citizens. The farm is situated about a mile from Dousman, in Waukesha county, where a philanthropic school is maintained, supported by voluntary contributions. with no state aid. The purpose of the school is to make clean, manly and capable citizens of neglected, homeless and orphan boys. These boys attend school nine months of the year, under a specially employed teacher, and they also learn to do farm work, yet have ample opportunity for play and recreation. Boys are admitted through a committee and boys with criminal records, mental deficiency or physical de- formity are disqualified. All of the officers of the school serve without pay, Mr. Elmore rendering active aid to the school as its treasurer and in other ways.
On the 9th of September, 1876, Mr. Elmore was married to Miss Harriet L. Cook of San Mateo, California, where the wedding was celebrated. She is a daughter of David S. Cook, who was engaged in the grain commission business at San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore have become parents of five children: Elinor is the wife of Paul Revere Parker, a naval architect now living at Berkeley, California, and they have one child, Elinor Parker; Amelia Huntley is the wife of George Abbot Morison, secretary of the Bucyrus Company of South Milwaukee, and they have three sons, Robert Swain, (II), Elting Elmore and John Hopkins Morison; Samuel Eltinge Elmore, the third member of the family, is a manufacturer of mercerized cotton yarn at Spindale, North Carolina. He married Jane Bacot, a daughter of T. W. Bacot of Charleston, South Carolina, who is an attorney, and they have two children, Samuel Elmore and Harriet deBernier Elmore: Fleretta Georgina, the next of the family, is the wife of Dr. Hugh Payne Greeley, a practicing physician of Madison, Wisconsin, and their children are four in number, David McLean, Hannah Elizabeth, Priscilla Elmore and Hugh McLean Greeley; Emily Warren, the youngest of the family, is an instructor in physical education at the University of Wisconsin, where she was formerly graduated. Her special training was taken during a two-year period of postgraduate work at Wellesley College.
Mr. Elmore has never taken active part in politics but has always given his support at the polls to the republican party because of a firm belief in its principles. He greatly enjoys outdoor sports, especially fishing. He is a member of the Sigma Chi. a fraternity of the Northwestern University, and is a life member of the Northwestern University "N" Association. He became a member of the first life saving crew organ- ized outside of the government service, joining this at Evanston, the boat being manned by eight college students. During his college days he spent four years as a member of the baseball nine and also made a notable record as a long distance runner. He is one of the charter members of the University Club of Milwaukee and he also became one of the charter members of the Arion Musical Club, which was formed in 1876. He has been active in this organization for nearly twenty years and has served as its president for two terms. He belongs to Plymouth Congregational church, in which he has filled the offices of deacon and trustee, and for more than a quarter of a century he sang in the church choir as soloist and member of its quartet. He has always taken a deep and helpful interest in those activities and agencies which make for public henefit and especially for higher ideals among mankind. A modern philosopher has said: "Not the good that comes to us, hut the good that comes to the world through us, is the measure of our success," and judged by this standard Mr. Elmore has had a most successful career.
CHARLES GEORGE JUNEAU.
Charles George Juneau, an expert mechanic, self-taught, winning his advance- ment through capability and constantly developing powers, is now occupying the responsible position of master car builder for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, his district covering the country from Westport, Indiana, to the coast. Mr. Juneau's life record should well serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement to others, showing what can be accomplished by persistent individual effort and laudable ambition, intelligently directed. Born on the south side of Milwaukee, December 12. 1875, he is a son of Peter Solomon and Amanda (Ernst) Juneau, the former a son of Pierre Juneau and the latter a daughter of Adam Ernst, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Milwaukee, establishing his home on the south side. Adam Ernst was from Saxony, Germany, and arrived in Milwaukee in the fall of 1848. For many years he was assessor of the eighth ward and also served as a member of the city council. He likewise conducted a hardware store on Seventeenth and National avenues, remaining in business successfully for many years. Peter Solomon Juneau was born in this city August 20, 1846, and his life record covered the Psalmist's span of threescore years
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and ten, his death occurring October 3, 1916. He was at that time the oldest mail car- rier in the city, having joined the force in 1888 and continued in active connection therewith until his death. He served during the Civil war as a member of Company C, Seventeenth Wisconsin Infantry, and acted as drummer boy on Sherman's march to the sea. He was on duty with the army for two years and received an honorable discharge in 1865.
His son, Charles G. Juneau, acquired a public school education and afterward pur- sued a two years' course in the Milwaukee School of Engineering and Metallurgy. In 1890 he entered the revenue service, with which he was identified until 1894. On the 26th of October, 1895, he entered upon an apprenticeship in a blacksmith shop and was thus engaged until the Spanish-American war, when he enlisted for service as a member of Battery A, First Wisconsin Volunteer Artillery. He served as corporal until the close of hostilities, after which he returned to Milwaukee and again went into the Milwaukee shops, where he completed his apprenticeship in 1899. Later he worked as a journeyman blacksmith until 1906, when he was appointed assistant supervisor of the forge department of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company and con- tinued to act in that capacity for three months. Later he was appointed foreman of the forge department and continued so to act until the spring of 1918. At that date he received appointment to the position of general foreman of the forge department of the general system, extending from Chicago to the coast.
Mr. Juneau studied mechanical engineering independently, He is self-taught and through his studies and observations he obtained a complete knowledge of car con- struction, studying Kirkman's Works on Scientific Railroading. He remained in the forge department until August, 19IS, when he was appointed general supervisor of the freight department of the Milwaukee terminals and continued to act in that capacity until June 1, 1920, when he was advanced to the position of master car builder of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, with supervision over the territory from Westport, Indiana, to the coast. Each change that he has made in his business career has marked an advanced step. Steadily he has worked his way upward, his progressiveness bringing him to a prominent position. His success has resulted from his thorough study, which has been prompted by a commendable ambition to succeed. In everything he has undertaken he has displayed a thorough mastery of the question and of the work involved and today he is a most prominent figure in industrial circles in the middle west.
On the 25th of September, 1901, Mr. Juneau was married to Miss Anna Kratzat, a daughter of Frederick Kratzat, a native of Berlin, Germany, where Mrs. Juneau was born. She has become the mother of three children: Marion Mabel, now a student in the University of Wisconsin; Frederick C., a student in the South Side high school; and Charles G., Jr., now seven years of age.
Mr. Junean is a member of the Knights of Pythias and he belongs to various trade and scientific societies, including the American Society of Testing Materials, the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and Section Ill Mechanical of American Railway Association. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and he was chairman for Wisconsin of the Leonard Wood campaign. He has also been camp commander of Hugh J. McGrath Camp, No. 4, of the Spanish War Veterans, serving as commander in 1912, and after passing through all of the chairs in the local camp he was elected department commander June 19, 1916, filling the position until 1917. The interests of his life have been broad and varied, making his a well-rounded character, and the biographical records of few Milwaukee men contain so much that is stimulating and encouraging to the youth of the present day.
JOHN T. SULLIVAN, M. D.
Dr. John T. Sullivan, a physician and surgeon, with offices at No. 1030 North avenue in Milwaukee, where he has been located for the past ten years, devotes his attention to general practice and has among his patrons many of the best fam- ilies of the city. He was born in Peoria, Illinois, June 24, 1881. His father, Thomas A. Sullivan, is a retired coal dealer, still living in Peoria, but the mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary Carrigan, passed away February 18, 1905. In the family were three children, Dr. Sullivan being the eldest, while the two daughters are Anna and Kathryn, both in Peoria.
Dr. Sullivan was graduated from the high school of his native city as a mem- ber of the class of 1904 and afterward became a student in the University of Michi- gan, where he spent four years, from 1905 until 1909, pursuing an academic course and winning the Bachelor of Arts degree in the latter year. He then entered the Marquette University Medical College in 1911 and was accorded his professional degree in 1913. While at the University of Michigan he was a member of both the football and baseball teams and was captain of the latter in the years 1908
DR. JOHN T. SULLIVAN
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and 1909. During the summer seasons of 1910, 1911 and 1913 he was a profes- sional baseball player. During the summer of 1910 he played with the Cincinnati Reds of the National League and in the season of 1911 was a member of the Louis- ville (Ky.) team in the American Association. This added materially to the funds making possible the pursuit of his university courses in preparation for his pro- fessional career. Following his graduation he spent one year as interne in the Trinity Hospital of Milwaukee, covering 1913-14, and since the latter date he has been in general practice in this city, with offices at his present location. lle is now serving on the staff of Trinity Hospital and he is a member of the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
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On the 27th of October, 1917, Dr. Sullivan was married to Miss Lona Chap- man of North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in which city she was born. They are mem- bers of the Roman Catholic church and Dr. Sullivan is connected with the Knights of Columbus and with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He also belongs to the Calumet Club of Milwaukee and he has social qualities which have won him wide popularity, while his business qualifications have given him creditable stand- ing in professional circles.
ERNST REICHEL.
Ernst Reichel, treasurer of the Reichel & Korfmann Company of Milwaukee, has spent his life in this city where his birth occurred October 20, 1878. He is of German lineage, his grandfather having been Theodore Reichel, who lived and died in Prussia. The father, Hugo Reichel, born in Konigsberg, Prussia, in 1850, came alone to the United States in 1867, when a youth of seventeen years and took up his ahode in Milwaukee about 1870. Here he was associated with the Charles Baumbach Company. He married Augusta Borchert, who was born in Milwaukee, a daughter of Frederick Borchert, who was born in Germany. Mrs. Reichel still makes her home in Milwaukee but her husband passed away in 1900.
At the usual age Ernst Reichel hecame a pupil in the public schools of his native city and eventually completed his studies in the East Side high school. He started out in the business world as a clerk with the Mohr-Holstein Commission Company, with which he remained for two years and then became identified with the Reichel- Korfmann Company, the business then, however, being carried on under the name of the Baumbach-Reichel Company. Mr. Reichel became a partner at the time and upon the incorporation in 1902 he was elected treasurer. The present name was adopted on the 1st of February, 1922. The company deals in brewers' supplies, hops, malt and machinery, which it sells to the wholesale trade and finds an extensive market through- out the United States, Mexico and Canada.
On the 30th of August, 1916, Mr. Reichel was married to Katherine Kepzcynska, a daughter of Vladmir Kepzcynska of Posen, Poland, where she was born. She had two children by a former marriage: Geert Beling and Werner Beling. In politics Mr. Reichel maintains an independent course nor has he ever sought or desired political office. He belongs to the Milwaukee Athletic Club and he is a member of the Associa- tion of Commerce. Hunting and fishing constitute his recreation and each fall he makes a trip to Poygan lake. He is likewise interested in outdoor sports but the major part of his time and attention is given to his business affairs and as an executive of the Reichel-Korfmann Company he is contributing in large measure to its success.
MAX BRESLAUER.
Max Breslauer, president of the Blue Star Knitting Company, manufacturers of ladies' and children's underwear in Milwaukee, has through this connection contributed in no small degree to the commercial development and upbuilding of the city. Born in Germany in 1866, he is a son of Reuben and Pauline Breslauer. He was a youth of sixteen years, when in September, 1882, he crossed the Atlantic and made his way to Milwaukee, where he has since resided. For a time he was connected with the A. Breslauer Company, remaining with that house until 1919. His original position was that of office boy and steadily step by step he worked his way upward, winning con- secutive promotions until eventually he became the president and general manager of the business. In December, 1919, he entered into partnership with Julius Breslauer and Theodore Fanta in the organization of the Blue Star Knitting Company, with mills at Nos. 80 and 82 Farwell avenue. Mr. Breslauer has been the president from the beginning, with Theodore Fanta as vice president and general manager and Julius Breslauer as secretary and treasurer. The factory today has a capacity of one hun-
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