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Fred C. Meyer, of Oakwood, Wis., is destined to be one of the progressive and successful farmers of Milwaukee county. He is a native of Wisconsin, born in the town of Oak Creek, Milwaukee county, Oct. 11, 1849, the son of Joseph and Anna (Rohr) Meyer, both natives of Germany, who immigrated to this country at an early date and located at Rochester, N. Y. Joseph Meyer was a carpenter of more than ordinary ability and worked at this trade until he came to Wis- consin in 1847, and here he purchased sixty-one acres of timber land in the town of Oak Creek, Milwaukee county. He cleared his land and was such a sucessful farmer that within a short time he bought more. Before he died he had 293 acres in his farm. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer reared a family of five children on their beautiful homestead : Mary, Joseph, John, Eliza, and Fred, the last named being the subject of this sketch. The father was a Republican in politics and took a deep interest in the affairs of the state during the early days. He was elected to the Assembly of the state in 1852 and was influential in passing some of the good laws of the state. Both he and his wife were members of the Free Thinkers Association. His wife died May 4, 1888, and he Sept. 25, 1890. Fred, the youngest of the Meyer children, attended the public schools of the district in which he lived, and after his studies were finished he became a farmer. His farm increased in size to 144 acres, on which he has built a beautiful home and erected substantial farm buildings. He has cleared a great part of the land himself and
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is now interested in general farming, at which he is prospering. Like his father he is a stanch member of the Republican party and belongs to the Free Thinkers Association. He was married April 17, 1883, to Miss Selma A. Franke, of Oak Creek, the daughter of Charles and Johanna Fredareke (Koehler) Franke, who were natives of Germany, and who immigrated to the United States in the year 1850 and located in Milwaukee, where Mr. Franke and wife lived. Charles Franke served as a volunteer in the war of 1861, and after his return from the service he and his wife settled on a farm of 146 acres in the town of Oak Creek, where Mr. Franke lived the rest of his life. Mr. and Mrs. Franke celebrated their golden wedding in 1903, and two years later Mr. Franke died, survived by his wife and four children: Oscar, Ern- est, Herman, and Selma, the wife of Fred C. Meyer. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Meyer: Ella, Annette, Alfred, and Erma. All are graduates of the Oakwood high school, and Alfred is also a graduate of the short course in agriculture of the University of Wis- consin.
Capt. Frederick Pabst, deceased, was born in Nicholasreith, Germany, on March 26, 1836, the son of Gottlieb and Fredericka Pabst, both natives of Thuringen, Saxony, Germany. The father was one of the chief men of that locality, being a freeholder of suf- ficient land to make a considerable estate. In the summer of 1848, Gottlieb Pabst, imbued with a desire to come to America, and having friends in Milwaukee, sold his estate and brought with him his twelve year old son Frederick. The journey, especially the ocean voyage, impressed the boy most deeply. Gottlieb Pabst, after a residence of a few months in Milwaukee, decided to move his family to Chicago. In 1849, the family met with adverse circum- stances and it required the united efforts of all to earn a livelihood. The mother died shortly after the removal to Chicago, and Fred- erick, then a boy of thirteen, concluded he must be self-sustaining, and obtained employment in the old Mansion house, where he earned five dollars per month. He occupied this position for nearly two years and then received a similar appointment in the New York house. The memory of his ocean voyage and the prospect of the increasing lake commerce led to his determination to connect himself with lake-faring life. At the age of seventeen he obtained employment as a cabin boy on one of the Goodrich line steamers. From this position he rose, step by step, until in the year he had obtained his majority he was promoted to the captaincy of the old "Huron," the summit of his ambition. In 1862 Captain Pabst was married to Miss Marie Best, daughter of Philip Best, and this union was the turning point in his career. Deep as was his love for the lakes, his love for his wife was greater, and he finally decided to transfer all his interests to the brewing business of his father-in- law. Investing all his savings and beginning at the very bottom of the ladder, he learned all the principles of brewing, and in a few years became master of every detail. The history of the advance- ment of the Philip Best Brewing Company is treated elsewhere in this work, but it should be said, however, that in the year 1889,
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in recognition of a quarter of a century of tireless effort, and by unanimous vote of the directors of the Philip Best Brewing Com- pany, the name was changed to the Pabst Brewing Company. It was Captain Pabst who took the first steps to initiate the export- beer trade in Milwaukee lager beer, which to-day exceeds that of any other city in the world. Captain Pabst had not the advantage of schooling and thorough early training. He was one of the truest types of the self-made man and he developed a character of remarkable strength and individuality. His disposition was kindly, his manner charming, and his acquirement of wealth, which was steady and in later years extraordinary, did not deaden his sense of
obligation to the world, to humanity or to man. In the many years in which he was engaged in the brewing business there never existed a public enterprise, an enterprise for the advancement of the city, a movement for the advancement of Milwaukee as an art cen- ter, or the advancement of education or charity, to which Captain Pabst was not a liberal contributor, either in active co-operation or in some handsome financial recognition. Among the works of a semi-public nature for which Milwaukee is indebted to Captain Pabst are the Pabst Theatre, the St. Charles Hotel, the Kirby House, the Shooting Park, Whitefish Bay Park, and the Pabst Building. The Wisconsin National Bank, one of the greatest fin- ancial institutions of the city, and of which he was president, is another of his creations. He never took an active part in political movements of any kind. Captain Pabst died Jan. 1, 1904, and is survived by his two sons, Gustave and Frederick, Jr., able success- ors to the great business which for so many years was carried on so successfully by their father.
Gerhard J. Kopmeier, prominent in commercial circles in Mil- waukee, was born in that city on Jan. 28, 1861. He is the son of John T. and Maria A. Kopmeier, the former of whom was born in Oldenburg and the latter in Hanover, Germany. For several years he has served as treasurer of the Wisconsin Lakes Ice & Cartage Company, and as such has won a wide reputation as a keen, shrewd business man. He was reared in the Roman Catholic faith, and is to-day one of the devout communicants of the church of that denom- ination. On Nov. 13, 1883, Mr. Kopmeier was united in marriage to Miss Barbara Amann, daughter of Joseph and Annie Amann, of Milwaukee. Six children have been the issue of this union, and the names and the dates of birth follow: Eleanor A., Aug. 19, 1886; Olivia M., Oct. 25, 1889; Gerhard H., June 6, 1892; Lauretta H., Oct. 25. 1894: Isabell M .. Oct. 2, 1896; and Lucile C., Feb. 2. 1902.
Warham Parks, deceased, formerly judge of the Thirteenth judicial circuit, was born in Milwaukee on Nov. 5. 1840. He was the son of Rufus Parks, who was born at Westfield, Mass., and during the latter part of his life was a resident of Summit, Wau- kesha county, Wis. The father was educated at Andover Academy, Mass., and he began his business career in Boston when twenty-one years of age. He was unsuccessful in the venture, however, and took up the study of law, being admitted to the bar at Bangor, Me.
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In 1836 he received an appointment as receiver in the government land office at Milwaukee and removed to this city, where he re- mained until 1847, and then removed to Summit, where he died in 1878. In the years 1844 and 1845 he was treasurer of Milwaukee county, and was one of the representatives from Waukesha county in the first constitutional convention. He also represented that county in the assembly in 1867. In his early life he was a Democrat in politics, until the question of slavery became a po- litical issue. He then joined the Free Soil party, and upon the organization of the Republican party espoused its cause and re- mained unswerving in his allegiance to it until his death. The paternal grandfather of Judge Parks was an officer in the Revolu- tionary war, and the maternal grandfather was Nathaniel Gorham, a delegate from Massachusetts to the constitutional convention which formulated the government of the United States. Judge Parks' mother was Harriet Eliza Fairservice, whose family came to Summit in 1837. Our subject had just completed his academic education when the Civil war broke out, and in April, 1861, he en- listed in the Third Wisconsin infantry, being made second lieuten- ant of his company. He served throughout that internecine struggle, being promoted to major and then to lieutenant-colonel, by brevet, for bravery in the line of duty in Georgia and the Car- olinas. During the last year of his service he was on staff duty as provost of the Twentieth army corps. Among other engagements in which Mr. Parks participated were the battles of Winchester, Cedar Mountain, the second Bull Run, Antietam (where he was wounded), Gettysburg. Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Savannah, and the campaign in the Carolinas. After receiving his honorable dis- charge, in August, 1865, he returned to his home and began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar and was practicing when he was made postmaster of Oconomowoc by President Grant, in February, 1876. He was re-appointed to the same posi- tion by Presidents Hayes and Arthur, and when Benjamin Harri- son became president he was again given the honor. In April, 1895, Hon. William H. Upham, then governor of the state, ap- pointed Mr. Parks judge of the Thirteenth judicial circuit to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. A. Scott Sloan, and he held the position until June 1, 1896. Judge Parks was not a member of any religious organization, but was a devout attendant upon the
services of the Unitarian church. He was twice married. On Nov. 22, 1872, occurred the union of Mr. Parks and Helen M. Howell, of La Porte, Ind. Mrs. Parks died on April 21, 1891, leaving a son, Howell Parks. His second wife was Anne E. Taylor, of Paw- tucket, R. I., to whom he was united on June 27, 1892. Judge Parks passed away on Aug. 25, 1899, and is survived by his widow.
F. T. Souther, a prominent resident of the town of Greenfield, and a real estate dealer, with offices in the Merrill building in Mil- waukee. was born on a farm in Waukesha county, Wis., Dec. 7, 1854. He is a son of Nathaniel and Margaret (Trowbridge) Souther, the former born in Massachusetts. Nov. 20. 1824, and the
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latter in New York, Nov. 30, 1827. The father was an agriculturist by vocation and came to Wisconsin with his parents about 1838, locating near Mapleton, Waukesha county. Ile was engaged for a . number of years in teaching school, and then removed to the home of his wife's parents in Greenfield township. He was the father of three sons. Sidney, the eldest, was for a time a railway engineer and later became a railroad contractor, and passed away while working at the latter profession in Panama. C. N. Souther is a general passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway with headquarters at Chicago. Mr. F. T. Souther, the sub- ject of this review, attended the district school near the site of the entrance of the Soldiers' Home. Later in life he became clerk of the same school and his three children finished their preliminary studies in the same building. When twelve years of age the death of his father necessitated his leaving school to attend the farm- ing interests left in his mother's care. He has ever since resided in the old homestead, and for many years devoted his whole at- tention to conducting the farm. Later, however, he disposed of all but ten acres of the property and has since been engaged in the real estate business, in which he has had exceptional success. In his political belief he has strong Republican proclivities, but has never allowed himself to be influenced in the exercise of his right of suffrage by party fealty. On March 4, 1879, Mr. Souther was united in marriage to Miss Minnie L. Page, of Chicago, a daugh- ter of Milton E. and Lydia L. (Filer) Page. Mr. Page was born in Vermont, Feb. 6, 1832, and when a small boy he removed to Chicago. There for many years he was a wholesale confectioner and was also engaged in the florist's trade. He is now a resident of Fairhope, Ala., engaged in horticulture. Mrs. Page passed away in 1865. Three children have been born to bless the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Souther. Laura D., born Aug. 16, 1880, is the wife of Frank R. Cook, a newspaper man associated with the Milwaukee Journal. They have one child, Margaret, and their home is near Mrs. Cook's parents. Alice P., born Dec. 23, 1882, is the wife of H. Chester Evans. They reside at Butte, Mont., where Mr. Evans is associated with McIntosh Brothers, contractors. Milton E., born Feb. 3, 1885, is an architectural draftsman in the employ of the Sterling Construction Company, of Milwaukee, and makes his home with his parents.
Peter Jaeger, deceased, who for many years was one of the foremost agriculturists in Milwaukee county, was born at Strehen, Germany, March 2, 1835. He is a son of Jacob and Margaret (Reil- ling) Jaeger, both natives of Germany who came to the United States and Milwaukee in 1849. The father purchased a small farm near the site of West Allis, but only conducted it for a year, disposing of it by sale to purchase the 160 acres of land, which the subject of this review later purchased and on which his widow now resides. Peter Jaeger was sixth of the nine children born to his parents. His early educa- tion was received in the common schools of his native land. After coming to this country he made his home with his parents until a year
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after his marriage and then he purchased the homestead, taking over the shares of the other heirs. He was most successfully engaged in the conduct of his property until his death, Feb. 12, 1879. He made practically all the improvements on the property and by hard work and strict attention to business he made it one of the best paying tracts in the county. His father and mother made their homes with him during the remainder of their lives. On Feb. 12, 1863, Mr. Jaeger was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Arnold, who was born March 3, 1843, a daughter of Peter and Clara (Schneider) Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. Ar- nold were born in Germany and were there married at his father's home on the banks of the Rhine. They came to the United States in 1850 and settled on a farm in Wauwatosa township, and there lived until well advanced in years. They then came to make their home with Mrs. Jaeger, where the father died in 1888 and the mother six years later. To Mr. and Mrs. Jaeger were born eight children. The eldest, Jacob, born Nov. 8, 1864, is now a resident of the state of Oregon, where he conducts a large grist mill and owns 700 acres of land on which he raises livestock. Mary, born Dec. 18, 1866, is now the wife of James Lyons, an employe of the Chicago Street Railway Company. Peter, Jr., was born Sept. 12, 1868, and is now a resident of Oregon where he has extensive agricultural and mining interests. Henry, born Dec. 18, 1870, married Miss Ida Johnson and is now a successful farmer in Racine county. Sophia, born June 24, 1872, is now Mrs. John Webber and resides in Arizona, where her husband is engaged in raising poultry and other agricultural pursuits. Clara, born July 18, 1874, is the wife of Joseph Heintz, a farmer, whose property adjoins Mrs. Jaeger's. Nicholas, born Nov. 15, 1876, makes his home with his mother and assists in the management of the farm. Anna, the youngest, who was born on May 3, 1879, died Dec. 20, 1886. Since her husband's death Mrs. Jaeger has assumed the active management of the farm, of which she has retained sixty-eight acres of the original tract, and ex- pects to continue to the end of her days on the old homestead. She is a most estimable lady with qualities which have brought her a wide circle of friends.
Peter Honarath, one of the most substantial farmers of Mil- waukee county, was born at Richfield, Washington county, Wis., on March 8, 1846. He is a son of Anton and Anna (Schmidt) Honarath, both of whom were born in Germany where the father saw service in the emperor's army. The parents arrived in the United States from the Fatherland Aug. 15. 1844, and came direct to Richfield. The father purchased a farm in the township and lived on it until his death in 1881. His wife passed away ten years prior to his demise. Peter Honarath acquired his education in the district schools in the vicinity of his home. Until he had attained his majority he made his home with his father and then purchased a small tract of land near where he now resides. This place he conducted for fourteen years and then disposed of it to buy the twenty-five acres on which he has since made his home. He has not devoted himself to any one branch of agriculture, but has turned his attention more of late years to the dairy feature and today has a herd of well-bred stock that will rank favorably with any in the
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county. He has taken advantage of the advance in the price of real. estate and to-day owns considerable valuable realty in the city of Mil- waukee. Among his holdings are two valuable houses and lots on Thirty-third and National avenues, a house and lot on Greenfield ave- nue, two on Twenty-third avenue and Mitchell street and one on Scott street and Thirty-third avenue. Mr. Honarath has been twice married. On March 4, 1867, he was united to Miss Katherine Schlimmer, who was born in Germany in 1839 and came to Wisconsin with her parents in 1847. Mr. Schlimmer owned a farm in Wauwatosa township, which he conducted for some forty years. Late in life he retired and moved to the city where he and his wife both passed away. To Mr. Hona- rath's first marriage were born five children-Anna, unmarried, who re- sides with her father; Lizzie, the wife of Fred Schulte, a farmer of Wauwatosa township: Frederick, who married Eva Palmershein, now engaged in the plumbing business at Los Angeles, Cal. ; Herbert, un- married, a teamster, residing in Wauwatosa ; and Maggie, the wife of Theodore Schmidt, a farmer in New Berlin township, Waukesha county. Mrs. Honarath died May 14, 1880, and on Sept. 21 of the same year Mr. Honarath was united in marriage to Miss Lona Martin, who was born in Germany on Nov. 26, 1852, and came to Milwaukee five years prior to her marriage. Her parents both died in the Fatherland. By this second union Mr. Honarath is the father of six children. Josephine, unmarried, lives with her parents ; Katie is the wife of Benjamin Fifer, a carpenter of West Allis ; Henry, Frank, Biddie and Helen, all live at home.
John Sheldon, deceased, was among the early settlers of Mil- waukee county who won renown and built up fortunes by their in- dustry and enterprise. He was born at Ravenna, Ohio, in 1813, the son of Ebenezer and Martha (Corcoran) Sheldon. The father was in the dairy business in Ohio and John was reared on the farm. He at- tended school in his native village and secured the rudiments of a prac- tical education. 'In 1836 he came to Milwaukee county and after get- ting settled he engaged in cheese making. He entered claims and cleared the land, later selling it to good advantage. Cheese making being less profitable than this occupation, he soon abandoned it. Selecting a farm in Wauwatosa township for his home, he settled there, improved the land and developed one of the best properties in the county. In 1860 he became interested in stock raising and went west but returned to his old home in 1865 and remained there until his death, which occurred in August, 1880. Mr. Sheldon was a Repub- lican in politics and a radical Abolitionist and should be honored with a page in the history of Milwaukee county as one of the three men who first voted against slavery. Despite the fact that he never aspired to public office he was public-spirited and took a deep interest in the wel- fare of the community in which he lived. In 1845 Mr. Sheldon was united in marriage to Mary Cornwall, daughter of Eben and Cynthia (Sheffield) Cornwall, both born in Connecticut, the mother in Middle- sex, now Rushville. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon were members of the Bap- tist church. Six children were the issue of their union : Roscoe Shef- field, born May 10, 1846, a retired carpenter, who married Lucy Green
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of Blue Island. Ill., and now resides at 8311 Greenfield avenue ; the sec- ond child died in infancy ; Eliza M., born May 18, 1848, is the widow of the late William R. Baker, a superintendent of the McCormick works ; the fourth child was Ida M., born March 14, 1850, died in May, 1900, after many years of suffering. Cynthia, born in 1855, died in Blue Island, Ill., in 1863 ; Mary Rosa, born in Blue Island in 1860, died in 1862 ; Carroll C., born in June, 1866, and married in 1899 ; and Jennie, the wife of Mr. Gebhart, who resides on Seventy-seventh ave- nue. Mr. Sheldon was a very devoted man to his family and his demise was a great loss to a wide circle of friends.
Newberry N. Cornwall, a substantial and respected farmer of the town of Greenfield whose original farm is at present all within the limits of West Allis, was born on a farm in Wayne county, N. Y., May 2, 1822. He is a son of Eben and Cynthia (Sheffield) Cornwall, both of whom were born in Connecticut in 1791. The father was a farmer by vocation and went to New York when a young man. In 1838 he came to Milwaukee on the steamer "Madison," and located on a farm south of the then village, which at that time was larger than Chicago. There were but three families within a radius of two miles when he first settled on the property. He continued actively to conduct the farm until his death, which occurred at the hale old age of eighty- nine years in 1880. His wife died in 1874, at the age of eighty-two. There were eight children born to the parents. Mary, the eldest, was born in 1818 and became the wife of John Sheldon, and died Feb. 13, 1908, at the age of ninety years. Her husband died in 1880. John, the second child, died in 1847. Bashua, now eighty-eight years of age, still resides on the old homestead. Nathaniel died at the age of nine years in New York state. Cynthia and Anna are now deceased and an adopted daughter, Daisy M. Wilson, died in 1903. The father was a drum major in the militia prior to the war but did not enlist. New- berry N. Cornwall, the subject of this review, attended district school No. 5 of Greenfield township. Until twenty-four years of age he made his home with his parents, and then, having mastered the carpenter's trade, he went to work at that vocation in Milwaukee. In 1850 he caught the "gold-fever" and made his way to California, where for four years he suffered privation and hardship in an effort to make a fortune. Upon his return to the state he went to his father's farm and since that time has made it his home. The place at the time con- tained one hundred and forty acres of land, all of which has since been sold with the exception of forty acres which Mr. Cornwall still retains, fronting on Seventy-seventh street and extending west. Mr. Cornwall has never married. Although he is deeply interested in the welfare of the Republican party he has never sought to become his party's can- didate for public office. He is an ardent and devout member of the Baptist church. Among his neighbors he is most highly esteemed and respected, and has the good will of the whole community.
Orrin A. Howard, a prominent figure in the engineering circles of Milwaukee, is a native of New York, and descendant of a long line of sturdy New England ancestors. His birth occurred at Rochester Dec. 5, 1866, the son of Orrin Porter and Marinda (Allen) Howard,
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the former of whom was born in New York and the latter in Vermont. At an early day the mother moved to New York with her parents and there met and married Orrin P. Howard. The father was engaged in the traffic business on the Erie canal, owned several canal boats, and in his day was considered a man of position and large means. When the canal was enlarged he was one of the contractors who took charge of the construction work. At the outbreak of the Civil war he offered himself as a voluteer but was rejected because of asthma, although he secured employment in the government service buying horses in Can- ada. He passed from this life in 1867 and his widow survived until 1885. Orrin A. Howard, to whom this review is dedicated, attended the common schools of his native state and finished his education at Sil- ver Lake Assembly, Wyoming county, N. Y, graduating in 1884. After the completion of his scholastic studies he purchased a farm and was engaged in agricultural pursuits for a period of five years. At the end of that time he was enabled to dispose of his property and moved to Illinois, where he was employed by the government for a year at the Rock Island arsenal. In 1890 he entered the service of the Tri-City Railroad Company as foreman of the transportation depart- ment, and when he had severed his connection with that concern he worked in Chicago until 1899. He then entered the employ of the Christensen Engineering Company, as an electrical engineer. When, at the end of nine years, June 15. 1908, he resigned his position to re- tire from active participation in business affairs, the members of the firm felt that they were not only losing a capable employe but a con- fidential friend as well. Mr. Howard is a Republican in politics and one of the stanch supporters of the party. In December, 1888, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Annie E. Smith, a native of New York, daughter of Alonzo and Mary ( Patricks) Smith, natives respec- tively of New York and England. Three children were the issue of this marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Howard. The first born died in infancy ; and the othed two, Ruby Sybil and Alvin Orrin, are at home with their parents. Mr. Howard is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and he and his wife are allied with the Baptist church.
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