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Pope's cmapaign, being in action at Rappahannock, Sulphur Springs, Gainesville and the second Bull Run. In September, the brigade and division became part of the First corps, Army of the Potomac, and fought at South Mountain and Antietam, and then encamped at Sharpsburg, Md., until Oct. 20, when the regiment moved toward Fredericksburg and was closely engaged in the
battle there in December.
Winter quarters were established at
Belle Plain, and on Jan. 9, the regiment was transferred to Patricks' provost guard brigade, with which it served until the expiration of its term, stationed at Acquia Creek in April and May, 1863. On June 26, 1863, Mr. Chapin was mustered out at New York city, having participated in all the services of his regiment and been promoted to the rank of sergeant in his company. In a skirmish near Orange Court House, he received a memento of the war in the shape of a bullet, which he carried in his body the remainder of his life. Re- turning home, he re-entered the university and graduated in June, 1864. Desiring to study law, he entered the office of A. S. and G. M. Diven, and was admitted to practice in June, 1866. He followed his chosen profession at Elmira, N. Y., with Thurston, Hart & McGuire till the following September, when he came to Milwaukee. Here he engaged in the milling business as head of the firm of Chapin, Miles & Company, and was interested in the concern till 1869. For the next five years he was foreman for J. B. Martin in the milling business, both at Milwaukee and Newark, N. J. In 1874 the firm of Chapin & Company was formed, which did a general shipping trade in flour, grain and mill feeds, and which he conducted successfully until about one year before his death, which occurred Jan. 2, 1906. He had branch offices in Minneapolis, Boston, St. Louis and Buffalo. The business is still continued by the widow and sons, who are partners therein, and are fast winning recognition for themselves in the commercial world. Mr. Chapin was identified with nearly every good enterprise that went toward benefitting the city of Milwaukee, and the business men of the city always appreciated his energetic efforts. For seven years he was a member of the board of arbitration, and served five years on the board of directors of the chamber of commerce. As a citizen he served his fellow townsmen in the capacity of supervisor for two terms. 1878 to 1880; he was chairman of the committee on roads and bridges, and superintended the building of the Blue Mound viaduct. The county insane asylum was also built while he was in office, and he served on the building committee. He served two years on the finance committee of the school board, was its chairman one year, and in all positions he accomplished good results. Politically he was a leading Republican and took an active part in local and state poli- tics from 1876 till 1888. He was chairman of the county committee for four years, and chairman of the committee of one hundred for two years. He was elected a delegate to the national convention, held in Chicago in June, 1888, at which Benjamin Harrison was nominated for president, and elected the following November, Mr. Clapin taking an active part in the campaign. His religious affiliations were with the Calvary Presbyterian church, and he was the efficient superintendent of
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Sunday-school for a number of years. Among the fraternal societies, clubs, and other associations with which he was connected may be men- tioned the National Union. the Recreation Club, the Blue Mound Coun- try Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Whist Club. On May 14, 1868, Mr. Chapin was married to Miss Belle Wheeler, of Wirt Center, N. Y. She is a daughter of Calvin and Phoebe A. Wheeler, who were honored pioneers of that place, but natives of Massachusetts. The father was a farmer by occupation and retired a few years before his death, which occurred in October, 1896, at the age of eighty-five years, the mother dying in July, 1897, at the age of seventy-five. To Mr. and Mrs. Chapin there were born nine children, of whom the fol- lowing mention is appropriately made in conection with this review : Jay is a resident of Chicago ; Robert W. is the president of the Chapin Company at Buffalo, N. Y .: Jennie resides in Colorado; Charles J. and George M. reside in Milwaukee and are connected as partners with the Chapin Company ; Josephine resides in Chicago; Marguerite and Mary are at home ; and Chester W. resides in Chicago, where he is connected with the Chapin Company at that placc.
Hon. William J. Cary, the present representative of the Fourth district of Wisconsin in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, has a most enviable record as a public servant. He is a native of the Cream City, having been born here in 1865, the eldest of a family of six children. When he was but thirteen years of age his parents' death left the family without means of support, and after obtaining a home for his four sisters and a brother in an orphan asylum, he left St. John's school, which he was attending, and secured a position as cash boy in T. A. Chapman's dry goods store. When he left his position at Chapman's he became a messenger boy for the West- ern Union Telegraph Company, and taking advantage of his spare mo- ments he learned the art of telegraphy. By 1883 he was made an op- erator, and a year later, when but nineteen years of age, he had man- aged to save enough of his earnings to take his brother and sisters from the asylum and establish a home for them. He continued his service as an expert telegraph operator until 1904, only resigning when he was elected as sheriff of Milwaukee county. Mr. Cary's career as a public servant began in 1902, when he was elected as one of the alder- men from the Seventeenth ward. One of his first public acts was the introduction of a resolution demanding an investigation of the coal sup- ply of the city during the coal famine of the winter of 1902 and 1903. The resolution also proposed the establishment of a city coal yard. the city to buy coal and sell it to the poor people of the city for the cost of the fuel and the cost of its transportation. The resolution resulted in an investigation by one of the Milwaukee papers, which proved that the coal dealers of the city had a supply on hand and were holding it for higher prices. Another of Mr. Cary's acts as city legislator was his refusal to audit the bills of the Milwaukee Electric Lighting & Power Company for the street lights in the Seventeenth ward, maintaining that not more than fifty per cent. of the lights had given service, and he demanded that the company give rebates on all lamps which were not lighted. The matter was held up for some time, and was not finally
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settled until the council voted to pay the bills without Mr. Cary's O. K. on them. In the fall of 1904 Mr. Cary was the choice of the people of Milwaukee county for sheriff, and he served in that capacity with such ability and satisfaction to all concerned that his constituents deter- mined not to allow him to retire from public life; and in the fall of 1906 they elected him as the representative of the Fourth Wisconsin district in the lower house of the national legislature. There, as else- where. he has been a credit to his state and has won high honors for himself. He is one of the few Republican members of the lower body who have held out against the autocratic power of the speaker, and he has done much to further the interests of the people. As a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia he held up several bills, the object of which was to further the interests of lighting and other corporations. He was instrumental in securing for the city of Washi- ington a gas rate of 85 cents, the former rate having been $1.25, and the reduction resulted in the saving to the city of about $2,000,000 an- nually. As an evidence of the fact that Congressman Cary's ability is appreciated by his constituents and the people of Milwaukee is the gen- erous indorsements given him for renomination at the primaries of Sept. I, 1908, and his overwhelming defeat of his Democratic and Social- Democratic opponents in the election of Nov. 3, 1908. Mr. Cary owns a beautiful home at 666 Wentworth avenue.
Lynn S. Pease, one of the leading attorneys in the city of Mil- waukee, was born at Oxford, Marquette county, Wis., Feb. 15, 1860. His parental ancestors are remotely of German origin, coming down through a long residence in England and through the American stock of Colonial days, Mr. Pease representing the seventh generation born on American soil. The common ancestor of the late Gen. C. B. Chap- man. of Madison, and Mr. Pease was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and bore the name of the latter. On the maternal side the ancestry is English. The parents were Spencer A. and Julia A. (Older) Pease, the former born in New York Feb. 5, 1817, and died in 1884; and the latter, born near the city of Kenosha, May 12, 1827, died in 1906. They were married at Packwaukee, Marquette county. The father was a man of broad education, scholarly tastes, and of varied talents, having studied both as a lawyer and a physician, and beside acquiring proficiency in both of these exacting professions, he was also a jour- nalist of prominence in the state, and took an active interest in politi- cal movements, serving as the representative from Montello and the adjacent territory in the legislatures of 1865, '66, '70 and '71. He was the proprietor as well as editor of the Montello Express, the county pa- per ; was president of the village board, and was without doubt the leading citizen of the community. Lynn S. Pease began his education in the public schools of Montello, was graduated from the high school in 1879, and then taught for a time as principal of the graded school of the village, later entering the University of Wisconsin, in which he received the degree of A. B. in 1886, with honors. Returning to his profession of teaching, he officiated as principal of the Montello high school for a year and then took up editorial work on the paper which his father had owned and edited previous to his death. In 1889
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he determined to study law, entered the law college of the University of Wisconsin, and was graduated in 1891 with the degree of LL. B. While a student, both in the college of liberal arts and in the college of law at the university, he was a prominent factor of the student body in many ways; was a member of the editorial staff on one of the uni- versity publications and editor-in-chief during his senior year. At the junior exhibition and the joint debate between the Athenian and Hesperian societies Mr. Pease was the unanimous choice of the Ath- ian Society as their representative, but accepted only the selection as junior orator. While a student of the law a question arose in the attor- ney-general's office regarding the right of state treasurers to the inter- est on state funds in their possession, which later was brought into court in the well-known suits against the ex-treasurers. The question was tried in the "Moot Court" of the College of Law of the University, and Mr. Pease presided as judge. During the preliminary investigation by the attorney-general, his office was flooded with letters from promi- nent representatives of both parties, endeavoring to suppress the prose- cution as a serious political error, but after Mr. Pease rendered an elaborate opinion on the case, which was published in a number of jour- nals, the sentiment changed ; the line of argument and the principles laid down were what were followed in the actual prosecution against the ex-treasurers, and the attorney-general, J. S. O'Conner, and Col. W. F. Vilas sent for and used copies of this opinion in the preparation of their briefs. It was also accepted by Dean Bryant of the college of law as Mr. Pease's graduating thesis. While prosecuting his law studies he acted as private secretary of both Justice Orton and Justice Cassoday. After graduation he was appointed superintendent of the State School for the Blind, at Janesville, remaining until 1895, and was then appointed lecturer on the law in the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, remaining there for one year. He went to Milwaukee in the spring of 1896 to actively engage in the practice of his profes- sion. Soon afterward he was employed to investigate the condition of the Industrial School for Boys, at Waukesha. The Republican party being then in power and the superintendent being appointed through political influence, there was a popular clamor against the investigation, many believing it to be a political measure undertaken in the interests of the Democratic party, who employed a Democratic attorney to make the investigation. It proved, however, a necessary procedure to correct prevailing cruel practices and revolutionize the operation of the school. The superintendent was dismissed and the school reorganized upon a basis making the educational feature the dominant one, and the institution as at present conducted, one of the most useful of the state institutions, owes its revolution in method very largely to the disclosures made during that investigation : and Mr. Pease in the end gained much favorable notice for the spirit in which the investigation was conducted and for the results achieved. He has been greatly interested in the state institutions and charities ; was sec- retary of the state conference of charities and corrections from 1891 to 1897, and since 1897 he has been a lecturer in the Milwaukee Law School, which became the College of Law of Marquette University in
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1907. He is a member of the University fraternity, Psi Upsilon, of the law college fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, of the Milwaukee Bar and Wisconsin State Bar associations, of the Milwaukee Press and Ath- letic clubs, and of the Masonic bodies. He was married on June 28. 1887, by John Bascom, then president of the University of Wiscon- sin, to Miss Emma Ennever Nunns, daughter of Henry and Mary (Ennever) Nunns, of Madison, and their children are Spencer Adams, Mary Ennever, Frederick Jackson, and Harlow Heath, the last being named for Judge Orton.
Capt. Irving M. Bean, a Milwaukee manufacturer, is a native of the Empire State, having been born at Willsboro, Essex county, N. Y., April 27, 1838, a son of Jacob L. and Jane (Mccullough) Bean. The father was a native of New York and the mother of Vermont, both born in the year 1810. They came to Mil- waukee in 1840, and here Jacob L. Bean became identified with a number of important business enterprises. He erected the American House, where the well-known Plankinton Hotel now stands, was actively interested in railroad building, and at one time was president of the Milwaukee & La Crosse railroad. After a few years in Milwaukee, the family re- moved to Waukesha, where the father died on May 5, 1855. His widow survived him forty years. Ancestors of Capt. Irving M. Bean fought on both sides in the Revolutionary war. His ma- ternal great-grandfather, John McCullough, was an officer in the British army, and Humphrey Webster, a brother of his paternal grandmother, was a captain under Washington. Captain Bean re- ceived his elementary education in Milwaukee public schools and after the removal of his parents to Waukesha he entered Carrol College, where he graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1857. He then entered the law schol at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., completed the course, and was admitted to the bar of the New York supreme court after an exhaustive examination as to his qualifications. Re- turning to Waukesha he formed a partnership with Calvert C. White and began the practice of his profession. In 1861 he came to Milwaukee and entered upon the practice of law in that city in partnership with Enoch Totten, which association continued until the outbreak of the great Civil war. In April, 1861, Mr. Bean en- listed as a private in Company F, Fifth Wisconsin infantry, of which company he was later made captain. The regiment was mustered in on July 24 and was at once ordered to Washington, where it was first attached to General King's brigade, but later became a part of th brigade commanded by Gen. W. S. Hancock. Captain Bean shared in the fortunes of his regiment until the spring of 1863, taking part in General McClellan's campaign on the Virginia peninsula, in which he was engaged at Williamsburg, numerous minor actions and the Seven Days' battles before Rich- mond, culminating in the battle of Malvern Hill. He was next engaged at South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg. At Antietam Colonel Cobb, of the Fifth Wisconsin, was in command of the brigade, General Hancock being assigned to the command
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of the First division of the Second corps on the day of the battle, and at Fredericksburg the regiment was a part of Platt's brigade of Howe's division, Sixth corps. On March 1, 1863, Captain Bean resigned his command, and a few months later was appointed pro- vost-marshal of the First Wisconsin district with the rank of cap- tain, the district including the counties of Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha. He continued to serve in that capacity until October, 1865, discharging his duties with marked ability and fidelity and receiving the highest endorsements of the war depart- ment. The following complimentary mention of Captain Bean is found in the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, Series I, Volume XI, Part I, Reports on pages 309-310, Battle of Williamsburg, by General Hancock: "Our skirmishers of the Fifth Wisconsin volunteers drove the enemy from the crest down the bank, across the bridge there and into their works. Our soldiers behaved with spirit. I may mention here the names of Captain Ross, Captain Bean and Lieutenant Oliver, of the Fifth Wisconsin volunteers." While serving as provost-marshal Captain Bean was elected president of the Forest City Bank and held that position for three years. In 1867 he was chosen president of the North- western Iron Company, which was organized in 1854, and held that office until his retirement from business on Jan. 1, 1908. In his political affiliations he is an unswerving Republican ; has taken an active part in political campaigns ; is an earnest, eloquent and con- vincing speaker, but never has been a seeker for office. In 1875, through the influence of the United States senators from Wiscon- sin and without solicitation on his part, he was appointed internal revenue collector for the First district and served in that position for nearly nine years. Captain Bean is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, in which he has served three terms as commander; belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a prominent member of several social clubs of Milwaukee and Chicago. He is a man of great public spirit, and it was largely due to his influence while serving as president of the Young Men's Library Associa- tion that the movement was started that finally resulted in the donation of the library to the city. On Nov. 24, 1868, Captain Bean was united in marriage to Miss Alice, daughter of Levi and Cynthia (Tiffany) Blossom, of Milwaukee, and to this union were born four children: Jeanette M., Sidney Alfred, Alice, and Irving Mccullough, Jeanette M. married Edgar N. Dickson and has two children, Alice Irving and Philip Sidney; Sidney A., a resident of New York city, and an electrician, married Sallie Noble, but has no children; Alice died in infancy ; Irving McC., assistant manager of the Northwestern iron works at Mayville, married Mabel Webster and has one daughter, Mary. Captain Bean's wife died in 1885.
Lewis Sherman, B. S., A. M., M. D., is a native of Rupert, Ben- nington county. Vermont, and was born on Nov. 25, 1843. His par- ents, William and Hannah (Lewis) Sherman, both natives of Rupert. the former born in 1822 and the latter in 1823. belonged to old Colonial
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families. One maternal great-great-grandfather of Dr. Sherman, Reuben Noble, and two great-grandfathers, Luke Noble and Enoch Sherman, were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, from Massachusetts, as was also a maternal great-grandfather, Job Willim Cleve- land, also from Massachusetts. Dr. Sherman is distantly related through these ancestors to both General Sherman and the late President Cleve- land. His parents came to Milwaukee in 1867, and there the father was engaged in mercantile business until his death, in 1891, his wife sur- viving him a number of years and passing away in 1907. They were both members of the Christian church, and they gave the money to build the church of that organization on the South Side, and which is known as the Church of Christ. Of their four children, only Dr. Sherman survives. The latter acquired his early education in the pub- lic schools of Vermont and then became a student in the Academy of Washington county, New York, and later of Union College, New York, receiving from the latter the degrees of B. S. and A. M. Subse- quently he entered the medical department of the University of New York, in which he received his degree of M. D. In 1870 he came to Milwaukee, where he began his professional career and where he has been in active practice since that time, being now one of the most widely-known and prominent physicians of the city. Dr. Sherman is a member of the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine; the Homeopathic Medical Society of Wisconsin ; the American Institute of Homeopathy ; the Wisconsin Mycological Society, of which he is president ; the Wis- consin Natural History Society; the Wisconsin Archaeological So- ciety ; the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, and also to the Wis- consin Historical Society. In fraternal circles he is enrolled in the Masonic order, having taken the Thirty-second degree. In 1872, Dr. Sherman engaged in company with Dr. J. S. Douglass in the Mil- waukee Homeopathic Pharmacy. Two years later Dr. Douglass, on account of advanced age, retired from the business and Dr. Sher- man has since carried it on alone. He is also president of the Jewett & Sherman Company, engaged in the importation of teas, coffees, and spices, and the manufacture of baking powder, etc. Politically he is a supporter of the principles of the Republican party. In 1876 he was married to Miss Mary R. Tuttle, of Scranton, Pa., and to this union four children have been born, namely: Gertrude, Leta, Helen, and Lewis Sherman, Jr., all of whom are living and all are graduates of the University of Wisconsin.
John H. Frank, M. D., one of the prominent younger medical practitioners of Milwaukee, was born in this city on July 17, 1870. He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Just) Frank, the former of whom was born in Germany in 1844 and the latter in the Cream City in 1847. The paternal grandparents came to the United States from Germany in 1853 and located at Orange, Mass., where, until the time of his death, the grandfather was engaged in operating a mill. His wife also died there. The father, John Frank, learned the miller's trade at Orange. When but nineteen years of age, in 1863, he came to Milwaukee, and making this city his headquarters
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for several years drove a drygoods and notions wagon over the states of Wisconsin, lowa and Michigan. For more than thirty years he has been the traveling representative of the Herman Toser Company, wholesale liquor dealers, with headquarters at 435 East Water street, Milwaukee, and is today one of the oldest and most active men on the road. His territory includes Wisconsin, Min- nesota and Michigan. The maternal grandparents were early resi- dents of Milwaukee and the grandfather was by vocation a shoe- maker, later serving the city as a member of its police force. The mother, Elizabeth (Just) Frank, took the long journey from which there is no return, in 1904. Six children were born to the parents, namely: Dr. John H .; Alma and Laura, who keep house for their father at 858 Island avenue : Oscar, night clerk for the American Express Company ; Arthur, now filling a clerical position in the city, and Robert, deceased. Dr. Frank attended the public schools of Milwaukee, and the German-English academy, and took his degree as Doctor of Medicine at Milwaukee Medical College, now a part of Marquette University, in 1902. Immediately after grad- uation he established himself in an office at 819 Third street and has since enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. Although he has given staunch allegiance to the Democratic party, he finds no leisure from business affairs to devote to becoming a candidate for public office. While in college he became allied with the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity, and is also a member of the Ma- sonic order. Professionally he is allied with the Milwaukee County and the Milwaukee City Medical societies. On Nov. 18, 1908, oc- curred Dr. Frank's marriage to Miss Helen Harrmann, daughter of the late Richard Harrmann, a prominent stone mason of the city for many years.
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