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liberal culture which can never be secured as quickly in any other manner as through travel. His mind is stored with many most interesting reminiscences of his journeys and these enrich his conversation, making him an entertaining companion.
GEORGE RICHARDSON.
George Richardson has recently retired from business after long connection with the printing industry in Milwaukee. His has been a life of activity and usefulness fraught with substantial results and his labors have been a contributing force in the business progress of the community in which he has so long made his home. He was born in Yorkshire, England, October 21, 1839, and is a son of John and Sarah ( Nicholson ) Richardson. The father came to America in 1849 and settled in Milwaukee about 1850. The following year he was joined by his wife and family and here they spent their remaining days.
Following his arrival with his mother George Richardson attended school for a few months but when a small lad worked at whatever task he could find to do that would enable him to contribute to his own support. At the age of eighteen years he entered the office of the Sentinel and there learned the printer's trade, acquainting himself with every phase and branch of the business during the eight years in which he was em- ployed in that establishment. Steadily he worked his way upward to positions of responsibility and when he had completed eight years of service there he engaged in business on his own aecount with capital saved from his earnings, his brod experience also proving as one of the strong foundation stones in his success. In connection with a partner he purchased a small printing shop known as the Riverside Printing House. There they built up a business to large proportions, increasing their plant from time to time in order to meet the growing demands of the trade, and for twelve years they carried on their enterprise at that location. Mr. Richardson then sold his interest in the business and again started out for himself, establishing a printing house of which he was proprietor until a very recent date, when he retired to enjoy in well earned rest the fruits of his former toil.
In 1865 Mr. Richardson was married to Miss Rose Hannah West, who died January 13, 1877. She was a daughter of William and Elizabeth West, who were among the early settlers of Waukesha county, Wisconsin, taking up their abode there in 1837. For many years her father was eounty surveyor and assessor and was closely and promin- ently connected with the upbuilding of that seetion of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson became parents of three children: Lella; Alice Elizabeth, the wife of Walter Brubaker of West Allis; and Hiram W., of Milwaukee.
In polities Mr. Richardson has always been a stanch republican. He is the possessor of many interesting relics. Mr. Richardson is the librarian of the Old Settlers Club and there are few men who ean equal him in the extent and accuracy of his knowledge concerning Milwaukee and the state. His memory forms a conneeting link between the primitive past and the progressive present and, like the city in which he became a resident more than seventy years ago, he has grown and developed with the passing dec- ades, contributing to the progress and upbuilding of the city, while at the same time advaneing his individual fortunes.
ALBIN A. KRYGIER, M. D.
Dr. Albin A. Krygier, a member of the medical profession of Milwaukee, specializing in his practice in gynecology, reached his present professional position by the path of the drug trade, whereby his interest in medicine was aroused, and, following his gradua- tion from the medical department of Marquette University with the class of 1908, he has continuously practiced in this city. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, January 30, 1881, and is a son of Andrew and Salomeja Krygier, who are now residents of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Both were natives of that part of Poland which then be- longed to Prussia but they came to the new world in early life aud were married in South Bend, Indiana, in 1878. In 1883 they removed to Stevens Point, Wisconsin, at whiel time their son, Albin A., was but two years of age, In their family were five sons and two daughters, six of whom are living and three of the sons and one of the daughters are residents of Milwaukee, namely: Dr. Krygier, of this review; Andrew A. Krygier, Jr., who is a druggist, conducting business at the corner of Biddle and Van Buren streets; Dr. Blazius Krygier, a dentist; and Mrs. Pearl Lempicki. Another son, Joseph J. Krygier, was also a resident of Milwaukee to the time of his death, which occurred July 13, 1921, and he, too, engaged in the drug business here.
Dr. Albin A. Krygier was educated at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, attending the publie, parochial and high schools of that place. He started out to provide for his own support
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as an employe in a drug store there when a lad of sixteen years. About that time he also entered the high school, which he attended for two years, working in the store mornings, evening and on Saturdays, but at length the druggist prevailed upon him to leave school and devote his entire attention to the store. He did this and continued with his original employer until he reached the age of twenty years, when, having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work, lie came to Milwaukee and entered the Milwaukee Medical College, in which he at first studied pharmacy for four months. He was then licensed as a pharmacist and after a short time clerked in a Milwaukee drug store. In 1902 he returned to the drug store at Stevens Point, where he had formerly been employed but with his return was made manager of the establish- ment. His deep interest in medicine and its properties led him to the determination to enter upon the practice of medicine as a life work and in October, 1904, he matriculated in the Marquette University, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1908. He at once began practice on the south side of Milwaukee, where he has remained throughont the intervening period to the present time. For three years after his gradua- tion he was a member of the faculty of the Marquette Medical College, teaching materia medica, and he is now instructor in gynecology in that institution. He is at present a staff member of Hanover Hospital.
Dr. Krygier was married in this city, February 4, 1903, to Miss Pearl Klos, a native of Milwaukee and of Polish parentage. They have become parents of five children: Gabryella, eighteen years of age; Walter, aged twelve; Esther, nine; Wanda, six; and Albin A., Jr., a lad of four summers. The daughters, Gabryella and Esther, are both students in St. Mary's Academy of Milwaukee.
Dr. Krygier has served in the World war for five months, becoming a first lieutenant in the Fifth Wisconsin Regiment as a member of the medical corps, spending his tine at Camp McArthur at Waco, Texas. He now belongs to the American Legion. He also has membership with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the Knights of Columbus, the latter indicating his connection with the Roman Catholic church, for the order draws its membership only from people of that faith. He finds his chief recreation in winter in bowling, while in summer he turns to golf and fishing as his pastimes. Along strictly professional lines his membership connection is with the Mil- waukee Physicians Association, the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM MITCHELL.
Brigadier General William Mitchell was born in Nice, France, December 29, 1879, the son of Senator and Mrs. John L. Mitchell of Wisconsin. He spent his boyhood at Milwau- kee and attended private schools, graduating from Racine College, Racine, Wisconsin. He attended Columbian Preparatory College and graduated from Columbian College, Wash- ington, D. C.
When Spanish war was declared William Mitchell, then eigliteen years of age, went to his home city, Milwaukee, and enlisted as a private in Company M, First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and proceeded with his regiment to Jacksonville, Florida, where it joined the Seventh Army Corps, being formed for the siege of Havana; he was promoted to second lieutenant in May, 1898, proceeded to Cnba, and served on the staff of Major General Fitzhugh Lee until the summer of 1899, when, the insurrection having broken out in the Philippines, Lieutenant Mitchell applied to go to the Philippines, where he joined the Second Division, Eighth Army Corps, in the Philippines, participating in the northern campaign in 1899; he was mentioned in reports for conspicnous service. He left the Philippines in 1901 and proceeded around the world, spending several months in India, Japan, China and Straits Settlements, inspecting the British forces; then to Egypt, France, and United States; applied for service in Alaska and from 1901 to 1903, completed the Alaskan Telegraph System where others had failed. He returned to the United States in 1903; was promoted to captain after five years continuous service, took leave and traveled through Mexico for several months to study the country. Upon his return he organized the First Field Signal Company and took it to Fort Leavenworth in 1904. He was made instructor in the Signal School and Infantry and Cavalry School at the age of twenty-fonr, in 1906, assisted in command of the city of San Francisco after the earthquake; was sent to Cuba as chief signal officer of the Army of Cnban pacifica- tion at the age of twenty-six; returned to Leavenworth in 1907; became a distinguislied graduate of the School of the Line in 1908, and Staff College in 1909. During summers acted as instructor with organized militia; proceeded to the Philippines in 1909 and served to 1911, making explorations throughout the Philippines, Batan and Babuyan Islands up to Formosa. Upon leaving the Philippines in 1911, he proceeded to Japan, Manchuria and Siberia, studying Japanese, Chinese and Russian armies; he returned to the United States in 1912; served on the Mexican border, and was appointed to the General Staff in 1912, being the youngest officer ever designated for that duty. He
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served on the General Staff until 1916, when he was assigned to the aviation service, which he organized on a basis that, if it had been followed, would have given great results.
He was sent to France before the entrance of America into the war as military observer and upon declaration of hostilities, immediately went to the front with the French aviation and was the first American officer in war to fly over the lines. He made complete reports and recommendations to the American government within two weeks after the declaration of war, covering the means by which America could most rapidly complete her aerial preparation, as based upon the experience of both the French and British. These recommendations were disregarded. In the formation days of American aviation at the front, all the advance units were under Colonel Mitchell. He was in con- trol of all aviation units of the Americans at the front at Chateau Thierry. He was chief of air service for all aviation units of the First army, St. Mihiel offensive, aud was chief of air service of the group of armies including both the first and second armies during the Argonne offensive. When the Third army was formed to occupy Germany, he was appointed chief of air service of the Third army.
General Mitchell is our most experienced aviation officer. There was no time during the history of American aviation at the front that it was not commanded and personally supervised by General Mitchell. To him is due the credit for many advances in aerial tactics, which were later adopted by both the French and British. He has the complete confidence of all the Allies.
At St. Mihiel, the largest aerial concentration in the history of the world, which was made by the English, French, Belgian, Italian and American aviation, was placed under his command. General Mitchell is not only a rare tactician but he is a wonder- ful strategist. He is, first of all, a fighter and a flying officer. The fact that General Mitchell himself continually flew alone over the lines was one of the greatest inspira- tions of the American airmen at the front in the dark days when no American equip- ment was being received. He served in thirteen major engagements iu France.
He participated in the following major operations-American: Cambria, Somme Defensive, Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argoune, De- fensive Sector. French: Mont Sand Nom, Mont Counillet, Champagne Offensive, Bois de la Grille, Verdun, Malmaison. British: Ypres, Bullecourt.
And was awarded the following decorations: Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in action; Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meri- torious service; the French Croix de Guerre with five palms, for exceptional bravery; he was promoted by the Marshal of France to a commander of the Legion of Honor; the British bestowed upon him the Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George; and he was awarded the Italian decorations: Commander of St. Maurizio and Lazzaro, Italian War Cross, and grand officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
Since his return to America. General Mitchell has acted in the capacity of assistant chief of air service. During the summer of 1921, he commanded the first provisional air brigade, which was engaged in bombing maneuvers off the Virginia capes. All warships were sunk quickly for the first time in history, demonstrating that aircraft will control the seas. Shortly after the conclusion of these maneuvers, General Mitchell made an extended inspection trip through Europe, visiting France, Italy, Germany, Holland, and England.
DELPARDE W. ROBERTS, M. D.
Dr. Delparde W. Roberts, who has won distinction as a neurologist and is now assistant superintendent and chief of staff of the Sacred Heart Sanitarium of Milwaukee, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, June 3, 1884, and is the elder of the two sons of Dr. Wayland D. Roberts, also a physician, as were five of his brothers. Dr. Wayland D. Roberts was born at Bolivar, Missouri, on the 5th of April, 1866, and was a son of a Baptist minister, whose family numbered seven sons, six of whom became physicians, while the seventh was a minister of the Presbyterian church. Holding to the tendency of the family toward the medical profession Dr. Wayland D. Roberts successfully practiced for many years, becoming recognized as one of the distinguished and able physicians and surgeons of Little Rock, Arkansas, where he passed away February 18, 1921, at the age of sixty-five years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Suzanne Farr, was a native of Arkansas and died when her sou, Dr. Delparde W. Roberts, was but eleven years of age. He comes of Scotch-Irish ancestry in the paternal line and of Welsh lineage on the mother's side.
Dr. Delparde W. Roberts was reared in his native state and in young manhood took up the profession of school teaching, which he first followed when but eighteen years of age. He regarded this, however, merely as an initial step to other professional activity, but in this way he earned the money to take him through medical college. He became a student in the medical department of the University of Arkansas, from which
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he was graduated on the 6th of May, 1911, and following his graduation he spent two years as interne in the City Hospital of Little Rock. He had won various medals and prizes during his student days, and his ability was at once demonstrated when he entered upon the active work of the profession. From 1911 until 1915 he was senior assistant physician in the State Hospital at Little Rock, where he paid special attention to mental and nervous diseases. Along this line he has specialized in his practice for the past ten years and since 1915 has been assistant superintendent of the Sacred Heart Sanitarium of Milwaukee, treating all mental and nervous cases in the institution. For this branch of the work he is splendidly qualified by reason of his comprehensive study and wide experience. In 1912 he took postgraduate work in the New York Polyclinic, and he also pursued a postgraduate course in the New York Neurological Institute in 1914, receiving a diploma in recognition of the work there done. He again studied in 1919, when he became a postgraduate student in the University of Pennsylvania.
On the 24th of May, 1916, Dr. Roberts was married to Miss Gladys Martine Emerson, a native of Pike county, Missouri, and they have become parents of two daughters: Gladys Martine, four years of age; and Emily Suzanne, aged two.
Dr. Roberts finds pleasure and recreation in duck and quail shooting and when leisure permits takes a hunting trip. He is a Knights Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and is equally a loyal follower of the teachings of the Grand Avenue Congregational church, to which he helongs. Along strictly professional lines his con- nection is with the American Medical Association, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Milwaukee Medical Society, and the Mil- wankee Neuro-Psychiatric Society, which he founded and of which he is now the secre- tary and treasurer. He also belongs to the Chicago Neurological Society, to the Southern Medical Association and to the American Psychiatric Association. His re- searches and investigations have been carried far and wide along scientific lines, bringing him comprehensive knowledge and marked efficiency in the field of his specialty until he stands today as one of the prominent neurologists of Wisconsin and the upper Mississippi valley.
GEORGE E. BURD.
George E. Burd, general superintendent of the Newport Chemical Company at Carrollville, was born in Midland, Michigan, February 11, 1882. His parents, Alfred M. and Amy S. (Sinclair) Burd, were natives of Michigan and Maine, respectively. The son was educated in the public schools and when he started out in the business world gave his attention first to chemical work, heing associated with the Dow Chemical Company of Midland, Michigan, for a number of years, advancing steadily in that connection until for some time he served as department superintendent. In 1907 he be- came associated with the Milwaukee Coke & Gas Company, taking charge of the chemical laboratories, and subsequently he was made operating assistant superintendent of this plant. He later became general superintendent of the Newport Chemical Company at Carrollville and has continuously filled the position since 1916. This is a very large concern and in normal times employs many hundred people.
On the 8th of April, 1903, Mr. Burd was married to Miss Jessie M. Richardson of Midland. Michigan, and their children are four in number: Louise E., Margaret E., Jessie May and Carolyn. The family residence is at No. 606 Mabbett avenue in Mil- waukee. Mr. Burd is a faithful member of Calvary Presbyterian church and is serving as one of its ruling elders and trustees. He was a member of the American Protective League during the World war. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of the Maccabees and in club circles is well known through his membership in the Milwau- kee Athletic Club and the Bayview Golf Club.
WILLIAM S. CLARKSON.
William S. Clarkson is well known in financial circles of Milwaukee as the cashier of the Holton Street State Bank, which he organized in 1920 and which has gained growing favor as one of the safe and reliable moneyed concerns of this part of the state. He is a native of Hudson, New York, and a son of Robert Guy and Caroline B. (Spencer ) Clarkson. The father, whose birth occurred in Toronto, Canada, came to Milwaukee in 1866 and here met and married Miss Spencer, daughter of William Henry Spencer, of New York and a niece of Mrs. George H. Walker, who belonged to one of the oldest and most prominent families of this city. In fact Mr. Walker was one of the founders of Milwaukee. Robert G. Clarkson became a grain merchant and broker here and was a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He also wrote articles for the Evening Wiscon- sin under the pseudonym of Tommy Dodd. After a residence of twenty years in Mil-
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wankee he passed away in 1889, his demise being greatly mourned by his many friends as well as his business associates. His wife, who survived him for more than a third of a century, was eighty-four years of age when called to her final rest on the 21st of February, 1922. She had gained an extensive circle of warm friends and was very prominent in social circles of Milwaukee, so that her demise was the occasion of deep and widespread regret.
William S. Clarkson, the eldest child of his parents, pursued his education in the public and high schools and after putting aside his textbooks began learning the in- surance business as an employe in the clerical department of the Northwestern National Insurance Company of Milwaukee, with which he remained for a number of years. Sub- sequently he spent four or five years in the service of the First National Bank and then accepted the position of teller in the Wisconsin Marine & Fire Insurance Company Bank. Owing to the failure of the latter institution in 1893 he returned to the First National Bank, with which he was identified until 1920, in which year he promoted and organized the Holton Street State Bank and has since served as its cashier. He has proven a most capable, popular and obliging official whose efforts have been an important element in the continued growth and success of the bank, which rapidly won public favor and support.
In Milwaukee, in 1895, Mr. Clarkson was united in marriage to Miss Julia Burroughs, a daughter of George Burroughs. She passed away in 1904, leaving three sons. William, the eldest, joined the One Hundred and Twentieth Division Field Artillery at the time of the World war and was later transferred to the Fifty-seventh Brigade in France. Jack, now a resident of Los Angeles, California, served in the navy at the Great Lakes training station and in Boston and also attended a radio school while stationed at Brooklyn, New York. Robert G. enlisted in the navy when a youth of sixteen and during the period of the World war served as boatswain's mate on a ship which went to Montevideo and Bahia, while after the signing of the armistice it was detailed to bring back troops from France. Robert G. Clarkson was then transferred to the Pacific fleet and made the trip through the Panama canal and around the western coast, being discharged at the Mare Island navy yard. He married Miss Norma Walthers of Mil- wankee. On the 18th of March, 1908, William S. Clarkson was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Mary Burgman of Logansport, Indiana, whose daughter Margaret makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson.
In politics Mr. Clarkson maintains an independent attitude, supporting men and measures rather than party. He belongs to the Milwaukee Society of Accountants and for recreation indulges his love of motoring, baseball and the best music. A capable financier and an energetic business man of sound judgment and keen discrimination, he has won a place among the prosperous and representative residents of his adopted city and is widely known as well for his attractive social qualities and many admirable personal characteristics.
LEWIS A. KLIESE, M. D.
Dr. Lewis A. Kliese, physician and surgeon, who has practiced for twenty years in Milwaukee, or since 1901, following his graduation from the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, now the Marquette University Medical Col- lege, was born on a farm near Jackson, in Washington county, this state, January 16, 1876, and was one of a family of five children, three sons and two daughters, whose father, Lewis E. Kliese, is still living. He was born in Germany and was brought by his parents to the United States in 1841, when but nine months old. The family home was first established in Milwaukee by the grandparents of Dr. Kliese, Frederick E. and Elizabeth Kliese, who here resided for some time hut have now passed away, the grandfather having attained the notable age of ninety- one years. Lewis E. Kliese joined the Union army at the time of the Civil war and valiantly aided in defending the stars and stripes. He has made farming his life work but is now living retired, making his home with his children. He married Henrietta Schnurr, who was born in Germany and came to the new world with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Schnurr, during her early girlhood. They settled in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, among the early residents of that part of the state. Mrs. Kliese is also yet living.
Upon his father's farm in Washington county, Dr. Kliese spent the days of his boyhood and youth and attended the country schools. At sixteen years of age he became a teacher and it was in this way that he earned the money to pay his college course. He afterward spent two years as a student in the State Normal School at Oshkosh and in 1897, ambitious to become a representative of the medical profession, he entered the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he was graduated with the class of 1901. He afterward served as interne in St. Francis Hospital at La Crosse and in St. Joseph's Hospital at Milwaukee for
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