History of Milwaukee, city and county, Volume III, Part 84

Author: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 912

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On the 17th of October, 1907, Mr. Day was married to Miss Hildegard Schmitz, daughter of Adolph Schmitz, a prominent attorney of Milwaukee. They have become the parents of fonr children: Thomas Gordon, John A., Gordon Frederick and William Robert.

Mr. Day is a very loyal member of the Christian Science church and belongs to sev- eral of the leading clubs of the city, being well known socially. He is a stanch republican and his interest in trade conditions is shown in the fact that he is president of the Milwaukee Credit Men's Association, is a director of the National Credit Men's Associa- tion, and is also secretary and treasurer of the Extract Companies Association of the United States. He stands at all times for progress and advancement and his aid has been a valuable asset in bringing about results desirable in the upbuilding and progress of the city.

FRED WILLIAMS.

Fred Williams, president of the Williams & Brenckle Cigar Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, was born July 21, 1849, in Richfield, Washington county, Wisconsin, and is a son of William G. and Mary ( Table) Williams, who were natives of New England. The grandfather in the paternal line was a native of England and came to America in an early day, settling in the northeastern section of this country. William G. Williams came to Milwaukee in 1842 and soon afterward took up a government claim in Wash- ington county, Wisconsin, performing the ardnons task of developing and improving a new farm. Both he and his wife died when their son Fred was but nine years of age and he was then reared by relatives in Milwaukee. He attended the grammar school as opportunity offered and in his leisure hours carried papers and did other odd jobs to . assist him on his way financially. At the age of twelve years he began learning the cigar maker's trade and continned to work along that line nntil 1872 in the employ of others, when he opened a shop for himself, situated at Sixth and Spring streets, where the Palace building now stands. There he remained for eight years, when Mr. Plankin- ton induced him to take a store where the library now stands, and at that location he remained for twenty-three years, his business steadily increasing not only because of his favorable location but because of his capability in developing and handling tbe trade. He afterward removed to his present place at No. 226 Third street and during this period has employed as many as eighty-five people. In a word he has built np a business of mammoth proportions and is today one of the foremost representatives in his line in the state.

In 1873 Mr. Williams was united in marriage to Miss Marguerite Garber, a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Garber, who were early pioneers of Milwaukee. They have become the parents of two children: Ella M., now the wife of W. L. Schoeverling, of Chicago; and Fredia, deceased.

Mr. Williams is a republican in his political views, having always voted the ticket,

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yet not considering himself bound by party ties and never seeking office as a reward for party fealty. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he was grand patriarch during 1915 and 1916, and to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, and he has membership in the Congregational church-associations which indicate the nature of his interest and the rules which govern his conduct. He likewise belongs to the Old Settlers' Club of the city, much of his life having here been passed, so that he has witnessed the greater part of Milwaukee's growth and development. At all times he has contributed to the work of general progress and improvement, and at the same time he has developed and conducted a splendid business, prospering from the start. The leading brand is the W. & B, cigar, which is used as a trade-mark-a trade-mark that has become familiar to all lovers of a good cigar. He has always held to high standards in manufacture, while as a business man he enjoys a well merited reputation for thorough reliability as well as enterprise and progressiveness.

FREDERICK NICHOLAS SAUER, M. D.

Dr. Frederick Nicholas Sauer, physician and surgeon, who has continuously engaged in general practice in Milwaukee since 1898 and who is the owner of the Roosevelt Hos- pital, was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, of German and French parentage, on the 19th of November, 1863, at which time Alsace-Lorraine belonged to France. He came alone to the United States in 1881, when a youth of seventeen years. His parents were well-to-do people and he had been given good educational privileges in his boyhood. He had also been generously supplied with means when he started for the United States, so after reaching this country he at once entered the high school at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later became a student in the Valparaiso University of Indiana, which he attended for three years, being graduated therefrom with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1887.

For a year thereafter Dr. Sauer taught Latin and Greek in Valparaiso University, after which he took up the study of medicine in the University of Iowa and won his professional degree in 1892. He served a year as interne at St. Joseph, Missouri, and later practiced for six years at Racine, Wisconsin, but since 1898, or for a period of almost a quarter of a century, has been located in Milwaukee. He has continued in general practice and has also given much attention to hospital work, being the owner of the Roosevelt Hospital, which he purchased on the 1st of November. 1919. He was formerly a teacher in the Marquette Medical College for a period of three years. He has from time to time done much postgraduate work and has six postgraduate cer- tificates. He also studied abroad at Berlin, Vienna and Heidelberg in the years 1893 and 1897. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and through the proceedings of these bodies also keeps in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress,

On the 14th of September, 1892, Dr. Sauer was married to Miss Emma L. Kearney of Missouri and they have two sons: Leon N., who is now a young lawyer of Milwaukee: and Frederick Kearney, who is a medical student in St. Louis, Missouri. Both are veterans of the World war and Leon was aboard the Tuscania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of North Ireland. Though nearly one thousand Ameri- can soldiers were drowned, he was saved.

Dr. Sauer is fond of trapshooting and hunting and thus largely. gains his recreation. He has made steady progress in his chosen profession, being now accorded a liberal practice in Milwaukee, where his position is one of high standing.

ALEXANDER CHADBOURNE ESCHWEILER.

Alexander Chadbourne Eschweiler, a Milwaukee architect of high professional stand- ing, was born August 10, 1865, at Boston, Massachusetts. He is of German lineage, his grandfather having been Peter Eschweiler, who served as an officer under Napoleon and afterward in the German army. His father, Carl Ferdinand Eschweiler, who was born near Aachen-on-the-Rhine, came to the United States in 1852 following his graduation from the Royal School of Mines of the University of Bonn. He practiced his profession as a superintendent of mines in northern Michigan and as an expert in examining numerous mining properties in various parts of this country, Canada, and Mexico. He married Hannah Lincoln Chadbourne, who was born at Eastport, Maine, a danghter of Ichabod Rollins Chadbourne (an attorney at law) and Hannah Lincoln Chadbourne. The Chadbourne and Lincoln families were among the earliest settlers of New England. The eleventh generation of the Lincoln family at present occupies the original home- stead. Ichabod R. Chadbourne served as a colonel in the War of 1812. His daughter, Hannah L., was the great-granddaughter of General Benjamin Lincoln of Revolutionary

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war fame. Mrs. Hannah Lincoln Eschweiler survived her husband by more than a decade, passing away in 1904.

A. C. Eschweiler acquired his early education in the schools of northern Michigan and in Marquette College in Milwaukee. He afterward attended Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, and was graduated in 1890 on the completion of a course in architec- ture with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then returned to Milwaukee and after working for some time with the leading architects of the city opened an office of his own in 1893 on the west side. He has remained at his present location at No. 141 Wis- consin street since 1897. He won in the competition for the design of the Milwaukee- Downer College in 1897. He has also been the architect of many of the finest residences of the city and of the buildings for the Wisconsin Telephone Company for the last fifteen years. He designed the Plymouth church and the St. Thomas church, and his works portray the highest types not only of residential and business architecture but of ecclesiastical as well.

On the 3d of February, 1891, Mr. Eschweiler was married to Miss Marie Theresa Mueller, a daughter of Anton Mueller of Milwaukee, a merchant who was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, as was his daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Eschweiler have become the parents of nine children, of whom six are living: Hannah Lincoln; Alexander C., Jr., who married Dorothy Quincy Adams of Minnesota and who has three sons, Alexander C. (III) and Thomas Lincoln and John Adams (twins); Carl Ferdinand; Theodore Lincoln; Elizabeth Chadbourne; and Francesca Marie. All three of the sons were educated at Marquette University and were graduated from Cornell University in architecture and are now associated with their father in business. They were in the armed service of this country during the World war. Alexander and Theodore saw service in France, the former as a major and the latter as a lieutenant of engineers, and Carl as a first-class machinist mate on a submarine chaser.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church, and Mr. Eschweiler belongs to the City Club and also to the University Club, of which he is a charter mem- ber. He finds recreation and interest in farming and owns one hundred and seventy-five acres of land in Waukesha county on North and Pine lakes. He is the president of the Art Commission of Milwaukee, is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is a member of the board of examiners for architects of Wisconsin, with which he has been identified since the board was formed. He acted as its first president and he has also been the president of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Since his college days he has advanced steadily to the front rank in the profession and has long occupied his present position of leadership.

JOSEPH H. MARSHUTZ.

Joseph H. Marshutz, who has been numbered among the active and able representa- tives of the legal profession in Milwaukee for the past two decades, is now practicing as a member of the firm of Fish, Marshutz & Hoffman. with which he became identified in 1917. His birth occurred in Shelbyville, Illinois, on the 10th of August, 1877, his parents being William B. and Eleanore ( Hunter ) Marshutz, who are natives of Bavaria, Ger- many, and of Ohio, respectively. The father emigrated to the United States in the early '60s, settling at Shelbyville, Illinois, where he remained until 1899, when he came to Milwaukee and here turned his attention to the insurance business. Both he and his wife still reside here, enjoying an extensive and favorable acquaintance throughout the city.

Joseph H. Marshutz obtained his early education in the public schools of his native town and subsequently entered the University of Illinois, which conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts at his graduation in 189S. Having determined upon the practice of law as a life work, he prepared for his chosen calling in Harvard University and received the degree of LL. B. from that institution in 1902. He at once started upon his professional career in Milwaukee, associating himself with the firm of Van Dyke, Van Dyke & Carter, with which he remained for a year, while subsequently he spent eighteen months with Bloodgood, Kemper & Bloodgood. He next practiced as junior member of the firm of Spence & Marshutz, then as senior partner in the firm of Marshutz & Burnham and later under the style of Marshutz & Hoffman, of which he remained the senior partner until 1917, when the present firm of Fish, Marshutz & Hoffman was formed, constituting one of the strong legal concerns of the city. The record of Mr. Marshutz is most creditahle by reason of the fact that he has been untiring in his devo- tion to the interests of his clients, nor does he ever forget that he owes a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. The thoroughness with which he prepares his cases and the clearness of his arguments are salient features in his growing success. In addition to his professional interests Mr. Marshutz is serving as one of the directors and the vice president of the Burnham Brothers Brick Company and is also a director of the Wadhams Oil Company.

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On the 15th of January, 1908, in Milwaukee, Mr. Marshutz was united in marriage to Miss Jessie D. Burnham, a daughter of Charles T. and Jennie Burnham, representing a prominent family of this city. Her grandfather built the first hotel in Milwaukee and her father was at the head of one of the largest brick manufacturing concerns in the state up to the time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Marshutz have become the parents of two daughters, Josephine and Virginia.

Mrs. Marshutz is a member of the Junior Protective Association and of the Women's College Club, while Mr. Marshutz is identified with the Association of Commerce, the Milwaukee Country Club, the University Club and the Town Club of Milwaukee. Along strictly professional lines he holds membership with the Milwaukee Bar Association, the Wisconsin State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Immannel Presbyterian church, the teachings of which guide him in all the varied relations of life, so that his course has ever been upright and honorable, commending him to the confidence and esteem of those with whom he has been associated. He served on the legal advisory board during the period of the World war and is numbered among the patriotic, public-spirited and valned residents of his adopted city.

THEODORE KRONSHAGE, JR.

Through three decades Theodore Kronshage, Jr., has been known as a member of the Milwaukee bar, in which connection he has progressed steadily step by step, winning his advancement in a calling where progress is made only through individual merit and capability. In recent years he has also become a well known factor in commercial circles as the president of the Espenhain Dry Goods Company. Wisconsin numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Boscobel on the 6th of November, 1869, his parents being Theodore and Panline Kronshage. In the pursuit of his educa- tion he mastered the branches of learning taught in the grades and in the high school of his native city and then entered the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1891, having completed his more specifically literary course. At the same time he was studying law in the state university and finished his law course in 1892.

In the same year Mr. Kronshage opened an office in Milwaukee, where he has since practiced, and his character and ability soon inspired the confidence of the public and for a long time he has enjoyed an extensive clientage, connecting him with much im- portant litigation heard in the courts that convene in this city. He is thoroughly at home in all departments of the law, trying many kinds of cases and trying them well. He is justly accounted a strong advocate and safe counselor, his analytical mind enabling him to delve to the very bottom of any subject under consideration, while he readilv sees the relation of cause and effect. Moreover, he has comprehensive knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence and is seldom, if ever, at fault in the application of such a principle. Into still another field he directed his efforts when in the spring of 1913 the Espenhain interests in the Espenhain Dry Goods Company were sold. In April, 1919. Mr. Kronshage became the president of this company, with which Frederick M. Hayden had become identified in 1916, and he is now the secretary and treasurer of the company. A strong organization has been built up, the business thoroughly systematized. and the highest standards are maintained in the personnel of the house, in the line of goods carried and in the treatment accorded patrons.

In 1907 Mr. Kronshage was married to Miss Maud Barnett, a daughter of John and Mary L. (McKinzie) Barnett of Boscobel, Wisconsin, and they have gained an extensive circle of warm friends among the leading people of Milwaukee during the years of their residence here. In politics Mr. Kronshage is a progressive republican, looking ever to the adoption of those principles which have their root in good government and high civic standards. He belongs to the Milwaukee Club but has never found time nor inclination to enter as actively into club life as many, for he has concentrated his efforts and atten- tion upon professional and business affairs of growing importance and has thus reached a notable place in legal and mercantile circles.

GEORGE HARDY DICKINSON, M. D.

For a period of eighteen years Dr. George Hardy Dickinson has been engaged in the general practice of medicine in Milwaukee and occupies a position of distinction through the development of his powers along this line. He is also prominent in Masonic circles and the sterling worth of his character is manifest in the readiness with which he grasps the opportunity to do good, both within and outside the field of his profession. A native son of Michigan, he was born at White Pigeon. July 26, 1868, his parents being

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George and Lydia (Hardy) Dickinson, both of whom have passed away. The father was also born in Michigan and devoted his life to the occupation of farming, remaining a resident of that state to the time of his demise. The grandparents of Dr. Dickinson came from Yorkshire, England, in both the paternal and maternal lines.

Reared at White Pigeon, Dr. Dickinson was there graduated from the high school, after which he attended the State Normal School, in which he completed a course in 1891. He afterward engaged in teaching for two years in Pontiac, Michigan, and subse- quently spent six years in Racine, Wisconsin, where he was principal of a ward school. His youth had been passed on a Michigan farm, but not caring to devote his life to agricultural pursuits, he turned first to pedagogic work and then later determined upon the practice of medicine as his life calling. He accordingly spent five years as a student in Marquette University and was gradnated from the dental department in 1901, while in 1903 he completed a course in the medical department and won the M. D. degree. For a year thereafter he was interne in Trinity Hospital, gaining that broad and valuable experience which is never obtained as quickly in any other way as in hospital practice. Since 1904 he has engaged in private practice in Milwaukee, remaining here continuously throughout the intervening period after four months, in 1904, spent in Glenbeulah, Wis- consin. At one time he was on the faculty of the Marquette Medical College and he is now serving on the staff of the Trinity and Maternity Hospitals. During the World war he spent five months at the base hospital at Camp Humphreys, Virginia, serving with the rank of captain in the United States Medical Corps. He is most conscientious in the performance of all his professional duties and is keenly interested in anything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life. He keeps in touch with the trend of modern professional thought and progress through his member- ship in the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the Tri-State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

In 1892, at Pontiac, Michigan, Dr. Dickinson was united in marriage to Miss Grace Ackerman of Greenville, Michigan, who is an accomplished musician and prominent in the work of the women's clubs. They have one daughter, Kathryn Lydia, who is now a sophomore in the Riverside high school.

Dr. Dickinson is a member of the American Legion and he is also a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Knights Templar commandery, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is serving as a trustee, and in these various associations is indicated the nature of his interests and the rules that govern his conduct. He finds his recreation largely in hunting, fishing and motoring hut has comparatively little leisure, owing to his extensive practice and the demands which are constantly made upon his time and energy. He does everything in his power to promote his efficiency and make his service of signal benefit to his fellowmen, and the consensus of public opinion places him in the front rank among the able physicians of this city.

LOUIS ROBERTS TAYLOR.

Though a resident of Milwaukee for but six years, Louis Roberts Taylor has already attained a prominent position in industrial circles of the city as president of the Loeffelholz Company, which was established in 1856 and conducts an extensive business as brass founders and finishers and as manufacturers of railroad car trimmings of every description. His birth occurred in Providence, Rhode Island, on the 1st of April. 1873, his parents being Thomas and Mary (Roberts) Taylor, who crossed the Atlantic to America in the year 1845. Thomas Taylor was born in London, England, of Welsh parentage of the Aspinal lineage, while Mary ( Roberts) Taylor was a native of Birming- ham, England, and of Welsh parentage of the Blunt lineage.

Louis R. Taylor obtained his education in the grammar and high schools of his native city and made his initial step in the business world in connection with the whole- sale dry goods trade there. Subsequently he turned his attention to the real estate business, in which he engaged in New York for twenty years as junior partner in the firm of Greene & Taylor. It was in April, 1916, that he came west to Milwaukee, where he has since remained and where he is now an important factor in industrial circles as the president of the Loeffelholz Company and as a director of the Milwaukee Malleable & Grey Iron Works and the Milwaukee Hay Tool Company. The Loeffelholz Company has been in existence for two-thirds of a century and has developed a large and profit- able business as brass founders and finishers and as mannfacturers of railroad car trimmings of every description and the Gibbs electric lighting train connectors. The present officers of the company are: L. Roberts Taylor, president; E. S. Taylor, vice president; and John J. Miller, secretary. As the chief executive officer Mr. Taylor has contributed in substantial measure to the continued growth and success of the enter- prise and is widely recognized as a man of splendid business ability, sound judgment and keen sagacity.

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Mr. Taylor has been twice married. He first wedded Miss Charlotte Pauline Raynor and they had a daughter, Marguerite. The wife and mother passed away and on the 26th of April, 1916, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mr. Taylor was again married, his second union being with Miss Elsie Suetterle, daughter of John W. and Emily Suetterle, the former a native of Wisconsin. She is a granddaughter of Adam Loeffelholz, who be- came one of the pioneer settlers of Milwaukee and was the founder of the Loeffelholz Company, the Milwaukee Malleable Iron Works and the Milwaukee Hay Tool Company. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor reside in a beautiful home at No. 262 Biddle street, which is noted for its generous and warm-hearted hospitality. They enjoy an enviable social position not only by reason of the fact that Mrs. Taylor is a representative of one of the oldest families of the city but also because of the possession of personal qualities which win confidence and regard. Mr. Taylor gives his political allegiance to the republi- can party and is a popular member of the City Club, the Milwaukee Athletic Club and the Milwaukee Country Club.

EDWARD J. PURTELL, M. D.

For thirty years Dr. Edward J. Purtell has engaged in medical and surgical practice in Milwaukee and is constantly overburdened by the demands made upon him for pro- fessional aid. For many years he has enjoyed a very extensive practice of an important character and throughout much of the period he has specialized in surgery. Wisconsin may well be proud to number him among her native sons. He was born in Waukesha county in 1865, his parents being John and Catharine Purtell, the former a merchant.

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History of Milwaukee, city and county, Volume III, Part 84

Author: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844 Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 912

Author: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 912