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EDWARD P. EVANS, M. D.
Dr. Edward P. Evans, physician and surgeon, specializing in diseases of children, with offices and residence at No. 4138 Lisbon avenue in Milwaukee and also maintain- ing a down-town office in the Majestic building on Grand avenue, was born in County Cork, Ireland, on the 1st of October, 1873. His parents, Richard and Mary Evans, are also natives of the Emerald isle but resided for a time in Milwaukee. They afterward returned to Ireland and are now making their home in Dublin, both having passed the eightieth milestone on life's journey. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1914. Their family numbered eleven children, all of whom are in the United States with the exception of four daughters who still remain in Ireland. One of the sons, the Rev. Richard Evans, is a Methodist minister of Wausau, Wisconsin.
Dr. Evans, however, is the only one residing in Milwaukee. He was reared in County Cork, Ireland, and took his pre-medical course and one year of medical work
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in the Royal University of Ireland at Dublin. In 1891 he came to the United States and completed his preparation for the profession as a student in the Rush Medical College of Chicago, spending three years there, being graduated with the M. D. degree in 1894. Immediately afterward he came to Milwaukee and here he entered upon practice. At that time his parents were residents of this city and here Dr. Evans made steady advance in his chosen calling, having now practiced in Milwaukee for a period of twenty-eight years. He has spent a considerable portion of this period in South Milwaukee, remaining there from 1896 until 1917. In the latter year he entered the World war, joining the army on the 6th of September of that year and serving until July 31, 1919, as captain in the Medical Corps. He went to France with the American Expeditionary Force on the 4th of March, 1918, and was overseas for sixteen months, mostly with the air service in conjunction with the French. His experiences were varied, bringing him into close familiarity with the modern methods of warfare, and then when his country no longer needed his professional aid he returned to the United States and received his discharge. He is now serving on the staff of the Misericordia Hospital, is instructor in children's diseases at Marquette University, and in addition he enjoys a large private practice.
Dr. Evans was married in Ireland on the 7th of July, 1896, to Miss Maida J. Park, who had been a friend of his youth, the Doctor returning to his native country for his bride. They became the parents of four children, three daughters and a son, who were left motherless when on the 23d of April, 1909, Mrs. Evans was called to her final rest. The children are Hazel, Eileen, Kathleen and Sidley, the eldest being now the wife of Warren B. Howard of Janesville, Wisconsin.
Dr. Evans finds recreation and pleasure in fishing, hunting and bowling. He is a Master Mason, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit and high principles of the craft. Along professional lines his connection is with the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the American Medical Asso- ciation and throughout his practice he has held to high professional standards, closely following the advanced ethics of medicine and surgery.
WILLIAM JOSEPH JUNEAU.
William Joseph Juneau, active in the field of real estate and insurance, having gained an extensive clientage in connection with both departments of his business and thus widely known in commercial circles in Milwaukee and its suburbs, was born in the town of Greenfield. now West Allis, February 24, 1879, a son of Joseph and Josephine ( Mathey) Juneau. The father was born on the site of the present post office of Mil- waukee and was the third white child whose birth occurred in this city, his people being among the earliest of the pioneers in this section of the state. Joseph Juneau became a farmer, devoting his life to that occupation, and he passed away on the 15th of March, 1919. being among the oldest of the native sons of the city. His wife was born in Martingy, Switzerland, and came to America with her parents when a young lady of eighteen years, the Mathey family settling in the town of Greenfield, where her father also engaged in agricultural pursuits. The grandfather in the paternal line was Peter Juneau, a brother of Solomon Juneau, and William Joseph Juneau of this review is therefore a grandnephew of Solomon Juneau. The family were among the very first settlers in Milwaukee, and a record of their arrival and their contribution to the county's development and progress is given elsewhere in this work.
William Joseph Juneau was educated in the public and high schools and also in the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1904 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. After leaving college he was engaged in athletic work, coaching foot- hall, baseball and track teams in Colorado in 1904. He afterward went to South Dakota and was identified with the State College there from 1905 until 1907 inclusive. The succeeding four years were spent at Marquette University of Milwaukee as head coach of all the athletic departments from 1908 until 1911 inclusive. In the following year he became head coach of football and baseball at the University of Wisconsin and there remained until 1916. In 1917 he became head coach of the football and track teams at the University of Texas in Austin, there continuing until 1920, when he was made head coach of football at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, in which capacity he is still engaged. In 1912 the football team of the University of Wisconsin won the western championship, which was the only championship team that Wisconsin has had since 1901. The southwestern championship in football and track work was won by the University of Texas in 1918 and 1919 under his coaching. In fact he has de- voted the greater part of his life to athletic work and training and is one of the best ): nown coaches of the country. He knows how to bring out the greatest possible skill in the individual and the highest degree of coordination in team play, so training that results achieved have been notable on the athletic field.
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On the 17th of June, 1908, Mr. Juneau was married to Miss Nona G. Murphy, of Brookings, South Dakota, and they have become parents of three children: Robert J., who was born July 4, 1909; Mary Helen and Mary Louise, twins, born in Austin, Texas, August 2, 191S. The present home of the family is at No. 399 Fifty-eighth street, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Mr. Juneau's time is only given to football in the fall season, while the remainder of the year is devoted to his real estate activity in West Allis. At the present time Mr. Juneau is president and manager of the Juneau-Hathaway Company and the Juneau Land Company of West Allis, and in the real estate and insurance field here he has made for himself a creditable name and position.
HANS A. REINHARD, M. D.
Dr. Hans A. Reinhard, a physician of Milwaukee, specializing in internal medicine, is a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago and prefaced his active practice in Milwaukee by two years' hospital experience in Chicago. Postgraduate work and private reading have kept him in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress as related to the practice of medicine and surgery and he is today recognized as a man of pronounced capability in his chosen field of labor. Dr. Reinhard is a native son of Milwaukee, his birth having occurred at No. 343 National avenue, while his present home is at No. 363 National avenue. His natal day was May 11, 1879, and he is the only son of the late Dr. Louis Reinhard, who was one of the best known physicians of Milwaukee in his day, here passing away in 1893.
Dr. Hans A. Reinhard enjoyed the advantages offered by Marquette Academy, the Milwaukee Academy and the University of Wisconsin and afterward spent five years as a student in Rush Medical College of Chicago, where he completed his course in 1903, winning the M. D. degree. Later he spent two years as an interne in the Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago and gained valuable experience in that connection, putting his theoretical knowledge to the practical test and constantly gaining added information through his work there. He afterward spent fourteen months in post- graduate study in Berlin and Vienna and with his return to his native land opened an office at his present location in 1905. Here through the intervening period of seventeen vears he has continued to follow his profession, making steady advancement in his chosen field of labor.
Dr. Reinhard belongs to the Milwaukee Club. During the World war he served in the United States public health service on a local advisory board. His religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic church, to which also belongs his widowed mother, who is still residing with him at the old Reinhard home at No. 363 National avenue, which was built in 1886. Since qualifying for his profession Dr. Reinhard has concentrated his entire time and energies upon the work and is serving on the staff of St. Mary's Hospital, with which he has thus been connected since 1905. He is also on the staff of the Johnson Emergency Hospital and in these connections does an important pro- fessicnal work aside from his private practice.
WILBUR RAY DAVIS.
Wilbur Ray Davis, vice president and general manager of the American Paper Box Company, was born in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, October 2, 1893, and comes of Welsh ancestry. His grandparents were John and Mary Davis, natives of Wales, and the latter is now a resident of Chicago. The father, Edson J. Davis, born in Wales, came to the United States in young manhood and settled in Illinois. In early life he was a druggist and later became superintendent of the elevated railroad in Chicago. He also possessed notable talent in both instrumental and vocal music and was organist in one of the large churches of that city. He married Louise Jones, a daughter of John Jones, a native of Wales, who on coming to America with his family settled in Illinois when his daughter Louise was but a year old. The ancestry of the Jones family can be traced back to Oliver Cromwell. Mrs. Louise Davis is now living in Chicago. Her husband passed away in 1903.
Wilbur R. Davis pursued his education in the schools of Chicago, the family having removed to that city from Kewaunee during his early boyhood. He com- pleted a course in the Austin high school with the class of 1908 and afterward con- tinued his studies in Mount Hermon Academy at Northfield, Massachusetts, and in the Worcester Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated in 1913, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He started out in the business world as an employe of the International Harvester Company at Chicago, spending two years in the office. He was then transferred to the Milwaukee office of that company as assistant cashier
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WILBUR R. DAVIS
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and served in that capacity for two years. Later he was with the Western States Envelope Company as superintendent of the paper box plant for two years and at the end of that time bought out that branch of the business and made it the nucleus of the large enterprise which he has developed under the name of the American Paper Box Company. He incorporated this business in 1919, with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, the officers being: Allen A. Breed, president, and Mr. Davis, vice president and general manager. They manufacture set-up paper boxes for packing candy, stockings, etc., and in two years the capacity of the plant has been increased from one million boxes annually to fifteen million. Their market is local and also covers Wisconsin and something of the continued growth of their business is indicated in the fact that when they started they had but ten employes and today the number has reached one hundred.
Mr. Davis was married in 1921 to Charlotte Raddatz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Raddatz.
Mr. Davis enlisted with the marines during the World war but never saw active service. He has always been interested in athletics and when a student in the Worcester Institute of Technology he won three "letters" in baseball, lawn tennis and basket-ball. He has since continued his active interest in athletics and he greatly enjoys motoring and travel. He belongs to the Tripoli Motor Club, which draws its membership from the members of Tripoli Temple of the Mystic Shrine, for Mr. Davis is a well known Mason. He belongs to Wauwatosa Lodge, No. 267, A. F. & A. M .; Kenwood Chapter, No. 90, R. A. M .; Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 24, K. T .; and in Tripoli Temple he is a member of the Shrine Patrol and of the Shrine quartet. He likewise belongs to the Optimist Club and is a member of its quartet. In politics he is a republican but has never taken an active part as a candidate. His religious faith is that of the Congregational church and he is a member of the mixed quartet at Plymouth Congregational church, in which he is also pianist and organist. Music has ever been one of the chief delights of his life and he is also a member of the mixed quartet singing at Temple Emanu-El on Fridays. He has sung in many choirs and was director of a choir at Kingsley Methodist Episcopal church for three years. He has likewise done concert singing and made several tours in that connection some years ago. His record stands in contradistinction to the usually accepted opinion that the artistic temperament and business ability are not combined, for while Mr. Davis is a musician of ability and figures very promi- nently in musical circles he has at the same time made for himself a notable position as one of the manufacturers of Milwaukee.
BERNARD ALFRED HOERMANN, M. D.
Dr. Bernard Alfred Hoermann, oculist, aurist and laryngologist, who though concentrating his activity and energy largely upon the line of his specialty, still engages to some extent in the general practice of medicine in Milwaukee, was born in St Louis, Missouri, October 1. 1876, a son of Dr. F. Bernard Hoermann, who was also a physician, having graduated from the Missouri Medical College. He practiced at Watertown. Wisconsin, for many years and up to the time of his death in 1918. He was of German birth but came to America in his youth, making his way to St. Louis, Missouri, where he arrived with less than a dollar. Starting out, therefore, practically empty-handed, he steadily advanced as the result of his energy and ability and made for himself a creditable position in professional circles. He married Caroline Prime, also a native of Germany, and she now makes her home in Watertown, Wisconsin. Their family numbered ten children who are yet living, five sons and five daughters, and all are college graduates, the five sons having become either physicians or dentists. Dr. Bernard A. Hoermann was about four years of age when his parents removed from St. Louis to Watertown, Wisconsin, and there he was reared. Having completed his public school education, he obtained the Bachelor of Arts degree from North- western College at Watertown as a member of the class of 1896. Later he pursued a three years' course in medicine in the University of Michigan and he afterward spent a year as a medical student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, this being the medical department of the University of Illinois. There he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1901 and for a year thereafter he was an interne in Augustana Hospital of Chicago, his service there being of the greatest practical benefit as training along the line of his chosen life work. In 1902 he opened an office in Hartford, Wis- consin, where he remained for four years or until 1906. At the latter date he settled on the south side of Milwaukee, where he has since remained and as the years have passed his practice has steadily increased in importance as well as in volume. He belongs to the Milwaukee County Merlical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the Tri-State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and he is also connected in membership relations with the Milwaukee Physicians Association.
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On the 24th of December, 1904, Dr. Hoermann was married to Miss Freada Portz of Hartford, Wisconsin. During the World war Dr. Hoermann served on the local draft board. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church and he is interested iu all those forces which make for progress and improvement in the community and for the uplift of the individual. He finds his recreation in long tramps through the woods and cutdoor life, and it is this undoubtedly which makes him "physically fit" for the onerous professional duties that devolve upon him.
JACOB NUNNEMACHER.
Jacob Nunnemacher, fourth son of Gaudens and Appollonia Nunnemacher, was born June 23, 1819, at Staufen, Switzerland, and died in Milwaukee on the 28th of November, 1876. Leaving his native land he sailed from Havre, France, on the 6th of March, 1841, and arrived at New Orleans on the shores of the new world and after about two years spent in the South came to Milwaukee in 1843. He married Catharina Barjenbruch in November, 1843, soon after reaching this city. He was a man of great activity and shrewdness in business, unassuming in manner, open-hearted and frugal in his personal habits, his sterling qualities establishing him firmly in the warm regard of his fellowmen. In the year of his arrival he opened a meat stall in the city market, where now stands the city hall and became a noted figure there by reason of his cordiality, his wit and his bonhomie, while his progressive business methods resulted in the acquirement of considerable wealth. He afterward removed his meat market to a store on the west side of Market Square, acquiring considerable property in that neighborhood, after which he built the Grand Opera House on the northwest corner of East Water and Oneida streets. Subsequently he purchased large tracts of land in the town of Lake and built thereon his residence in 1854, his time and attention being given to the development of the fields, his labors resulting in bringing this land to a high state of cultivation. He also erected a distillery and large cattle barns on his farm. His friends were always cordially welcome and he received here friendly calls and visits from numerous noted business men of Milwaukee, who were pleased with the generous hospitality and charmed and greatly entertained by his witty and humor- ous conversation.
Catharina Barjenbruch Nunnemacher came to America with the family of Dr. Luening, arriving in Milwaukee in 1843. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Marie Schmidt, in Charlottesburg, at the age of seventy-two years, being on a visit to the daughter at the time. She was a woman of wonderful perseverance, firmness and endurance, enjoying good health and retaining her mental faculties throughout her life. She was a great traveler, crossing the Atlantic many times and also visiting her daughter ' who lived in Iquique, a city on the west coast of South America. She bore her husband five children, in the order named: Herman, Rudolph, Jacob, Robert and Marie. Of these children two. Rudolph and Robert, became very successful in the business life of Milwaukee.
ROY T. HANSEN, M. D.
Dr. Roy T. Hansen, engaged in general medical and surgical practice in Mil- waukee, was born August 15, 1893, on the south side of the city and is one of the four sons of the late Thorwald Hansen, a native of Norway, who on coming to the United States with his parents in his youthful days settled in this city, the Hansen family being one of the oldest on the south side. Thorwald Hansen was a lake captain and died in the year 1900. His widow, who bore the maiden name of Lava Johnson and was also born in Norway, is still living in Milwaukee. Ole Hansen, a retired lake captain, widely known in this city, is an older brother of Thorwald Hansen and makes his home at No. 499 Washington street.
Throughout his entire life Dr. Hansen of this review has resided. in Milwaukee and was graduated from the south division high school with the class of 1912. In the following year he became a student in the Marquette University Medical College and for five years in all attended the university, winning his Bachelor of Science degree in 1917 and his professional degree in 1918. During his student days he became president of his class, occupying the position through the sophomore, junior and senior years-an honor seldom conferred upon one individual. For a year he served as interne in the Milwaukee County Hospital and in the fall of 1919 entered upon the private practice of medicine on Eleventh avenue on the south side, where he is rapidly winning a most gratifying practice. During the World war he was detained in Milwaukee "doing his bit" on the staff of the Milwaukee County Hospital and in other ways. He has mem- bership in the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society,
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the American Medical Association and in the Milwaukee Physicians Association. He is now a member of the faculty of the Marqnette Medical College, where he teaches physical diagnosis, and belongs to the staff of the Hanover General Hospital and of the Marquette Dispensary. He is likewise a member of the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity and belongs as well to the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity and to the Alpha Sigma Tau, an honorary fraternity, Along professional lines his progress has been continuous, and he keeps in touch with the latest scientific researches and discoveries, so that he is able to render substantial aid to his patients and at all times he is a close follower of the advanced ethics of the profession.
On the 2d of November, 1918, Dr. Hansen was married to Miss Elsie Gabrielson, a native of Pembine, Wisconsin, and of Swedish descent. They have one son, Roy T., who was born May 27, 1920. Dr. Hansen is fond of legitimate outdoor sports, to which he turns for recreation. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and is a Royal Arch Mason, while his religious faith is that of the Methodist church. His life has ever been guided by high and honorable principles, and his sterling worth is recognized by all.
AUGUST WILLIAM BOGK.
August William Bogk, one of the vice presidents of the First Wisconsin National Bank of Milwaukee, was born in Sheboygan Falls, this state, on the 29th of July, 1871, but was quite young when his parents, Henry and Henrietta Bogk, removed with their family to Milwaukee, so that his education was acquired in the public schools of this city and through the intervening period he has made his home here, associated through- out the entire time with banking interests. It was on the 9th of January, 1886, when a youth of fifteen years, that Mr. Bogk became an employe of the First National Bank and through all the intervening period to the present time, covering thirty-five years, he has been identified with this institution and its successor. Faithful to duty, his industry and capability won him promotion and step by step he has advanced through intermediate positions to the vice presidency, to which office of administrative direction and executive control he was called on the 9th of December, 1920. He is indeed widely known as a representative of the banking fraternity in this city and his name has ever stood as a synonym for enterprise, for progressiveness tempered by a safe con- servatism and for sound judgment in relation to all banking interests.
On the 10th of June, 1896, Mr. Bogk wedded Miss Hattie Krech and they are the parents of a son, Robert Harry. In politics Mr. Bogk gives his support to the republi- can party where national questions and issues are involved but at local elections casts an independent ballot. He is identified with various fraternities and social organiza- tions. He belongs to Lafayette Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and Kenwood Chapter, R. A. M. He is also a member of Garfield Lodge, K. P., has membership in the National Associa- tion of Credit Men, in the Travelers' Protective Association and in the Association of Commerce. He belongs to the Milwaukee Junior Officers' Bank Club, to the State Bankers' Association and to the Young Men's Christian Association and he has mem- bership in the Milwaukee Athletic Club. He is also connected with the Ozaukee Country Club Land Company. A pleasing personality, uniform courtesy and considera- tion for the opinions of others are some of the marked characteristics which have gained for him the respect and confidence of his fellowmen.
ANDERS J. CHRISTENSEN.
Anders J. Christensen, president of A. J. Christensen, Incorporated, well known furriers of Milwaukee, was born in Veile, Denmark, December 27, 1866, and is a son of Jens and Maren (Johnson) Christensen, who are also natives of Denmark, in which country they spent their entire lives, the father engaging in business as a tailor. The son was educated in the public schools of his native country and there began learning the fur business when fourteen years of age. He worked his way steadily upward through all the branches and departments of the trade and subsequently traveled over Europe, buying and selling furs in Germany, France, Norway, Sweden and England.
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