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950 Tomkowiak, Thomas
885
Skobis, Joseph.
347 Towne. Carroll Milton Edmund.
92
Skobis, Joseph C
542 |Traudt, Bernard George
366
Smith, Bryant ..
707 Traudt, John Jr.
562
Smith, Eugene F
199 Trost, Hugo J.
370
Smith, Henry
983 Trowbridge, Henry
502
Smith, Richard Joseph.
832 Trowbridge, William E.
502
Smoke, Jacob D ..
226 Truesdell. Charlie L .. 467
Soderburg, George Carl ..
505 Turner, William Josepli 790
Souders, Walter G.
177 Tylicki, Nicholas 983
Souther, F. T.
98S Ulrich, Ignatius John. 363
Southwell, Carolus Phelps
723 I'mbreit, Augustus C. 440
Spencer, Robert Closson.
34 Umbreit. Milton H. 529
Spindler. William C.
400 Unertl, John T 467
Spitz. Milton M ..
69 Vallier, Mead P 843
Stachowiak, Charles.
212 Van Alstyne, Jerome. 963
Stafeil, William J.
153 Van Beck, Theodore .. 846
Stamm, John C.
782 Vance, David ... 985
Stark. Henry J ..
540 Van Ells. James H. 67
Starke, Christopher H. 698 Van Rhienen, William. 809
Stearns, Gustav
367 Van Valkenburgh, Franklin Butler 773
626 Stoddard, Charles H.
791
932 Stolz, Joseph .. 358
Schowalter, Jacob
139 Strothenke, William
Schram, Samuel Jacob ..
274|Stuetzel, Eugene P
463
Schuerbrock, Victor.
510 Swigart, Carl A.
Schutt. Herman G
361 |Szukalski, Marion, A.
Shaw, Henry Melvine.
288 Thielges, Charles
S16
Showalter, Edwin A. 132 Thomas, George L ..
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INDEX
Van Valkenburgh, Frank P. $70
Whitcomb, Henry Franklin. 696
Van Wormer, Joseph.
254 White, Adam George 489
Vedder, Albert H ... 596
White, Moses James 401
Voeks, August
S641 Whitehead, Richard Doremus 665
Vogel, Frederick, Sr ..
699 Widule, Christian .. 267
Von Baumbach, William
Wilks, George William
662
Von Stockhausen. Hans Gustav
380
Williams, O. W.
406
Wabiszewski, Michael
J
714 Williams, Watkin D
602
Wagner, Ernst
634
Wilson, Arthur R.
683
Wagner, K.
453
Wilson, Harry N
174
Walch, Theodore A.
1002
Wilson, William Albertus.
337
Walczak, Stephen.
516
Winckler, Charles F. 603
183
Wallschlaeger, August Frederick.
839
654
Walsh, Francis A.
21
Winkler, Frederick C.
17
Walwig, Samuel ...
969
Winter, Fred N. 183
582
Warren, Luther A.
390
Wisniewski, Bolislaus.
233
. Wasielewski, Frank S.
452 Witte, Richard Sinclair.
738
Watkins, William.
358
Wolf, Herman F 627
272
Watrous, Jerome A ..
861 Wolfgram, Frank D
313
Webb, William Walter ..
705 Wood, Thomas H ...
404
Weber, Adam G ..
165 Wrangell, Ludvig 145
Weber, Burchard Andrew.
466
Wright, Clement Blake Bergin. 46
Weber, Ernest J
442
Wright, Edward Purdon 740
94
Wedda, John A
674
Wurster, Emanuel E. A.
839
Wedig, Frederick W Wegge, William F.
560
Wurster, Jacob ..
298
Wegner. John W.
530
Wussow, Hugo F.
578
Wehe. Waldemar C.
368
Yockey, Chauncey William
113
Weidenbacher, Henry August.
330
Young, Albert J.
133
Weiher, John.
231
Young,
George W.
949
Weise, Paul ...
293
Zartner,
Joseph.
551
Weise, Rudolph.
967
Zartzin, Abner ..
767
Weisel, Paul ..
803 Zartzin, John C
413
Weishan, Joseph ..
229
Zaun, George Frederick.
189
Welcker, Johannes Herman
197
Zaun, John B ..
234
Wellauer, Jacob
301
Zautcke, Fred J.
842
Wendel, John Adolph.
73 Zeigler, Frank. 759
WVendel, W. C.
801 Ziehl, John ...
90
Wentworth, Charles Chester.
326 Ziemann, Henry.
243
Wenzel, John G.
993 Zila, Charles ..
364
Wenzel, Paul F.
170
Zimmers. Michael
490
Werner, Henry C ..
416 Zinn, Albert ....
720
Weston, Charles E.
891 Zopff, Berthold A. 593
Wetzler, Julius.
338 Zweifel, Nicholas. 503
Wheeler, Allen E.
485| Zychlinski, Casımir
323
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Facing Page. Keenan, Matthew 47
Bean, Irving M.
910 Kneeland. Norman L 387
Becher, John A
92 Knell, William R 783
Booth, Cyrus D.
493 Manegold, Charles L 956
Denny, William J.
142 Metz, John 557
Donsing, William
621 Owen, Richard G. 214
Ebert, Robert B
305 Palmer, Henry L 731
Edwin Hyde
26 Peters, Carl Vogt 647
Ewens, Anthony C., Jr.
291 Rainer, Joseph 789
Ginzburger, David
64 Schweickhart, George
959
Hinkley, George M.
520 TTnertl, John T 467
Holland, Carlton
SS8 Walwig. Samuel 969
Jenkins, James G.
38 Winkler, Frederick C. 17
242
Weinhagen, George.
163
Zaleski,
Wladislaus S.
Weber, Fred R
639
Wright, Percy Bennet ..
236
Wurster, Erwin Grover.
461
Warren, Joseph A
971
Winter, Mrs. May
Wasserberger, Henry J
813
Witte, William Carl Ferdinand. 739
Watkins, William Wirt.
55
225 Williams, Robert W.
361
Wabiszewski, Sylvester
Wallis, Joseph H.
451
Wingerter, Martin
Winkel, Fred ..
Wolf, Robert ..
387
Vilter, Theodore 0 924
GEN. FREDERICK C. WINKLER
MEMOIRS OF
MILWAUKEE COUNTY
BIOGRAPHICAL
Frederick C. Winkler, son of Carl and Elizabeth (Overbeck) Winkler, was born in Bremen, Germany, March 15, 1838, his par- ents then residing in that city. The father came to the United States in 1842, locating in Milwaukee, where he opened a drug store. Two years later he was joined by his wife and children, and Frederick C. was reared in that city, obtaining his education in the public schools, which, although greatly inferior to those of the present day, offered advantages superior to those to be obtained elsewhere in Wisconsin in the territorial and early statehood days. He began his legal studies at the age of eighteen in the office of H. L. Palmer, and at the age of twenty he removed to Madison and continued his studies in the office of Abbott, Gregory & Pinney, be- ing admitted to the bar at Madison on April 19, 1859. Returning to Milwaukee he began the practice of his profession in his home city and had entered upon a most promising career when the break- ing out of the Civil war changed his plans for a time. The Twen- ty-sixth Wisconsin infantry, a German regiment, was organized in Milwaukee and vicinity, and F. C. Winkler became captain of Company B. It was mustered in on Sept. 17, 1862. left the state Oct. 6, following, and joined the movement toward the Rappahan- nock, spending the winter in drill, guard and picket duty. It partici- pated in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, the men fight- ing like veterans, and was at Gettysburg, July 1 to 3, Captain Winkler being attached to the staff of General Schurz. In a re- port of this battle one authority says that the Twenty-sixth "fought like demons," and in this engagement both the lieutenant-colonel and major of the regiment were wounded. Captain Winkler then became acting field officer. After the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20 and 21, the regiment was sent with General Hooker's forces from the Army of the Potomac to the relief of General Rosecrans at Chattanooga. In November following the colonel left the organ-
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ization, and from that time until the close of the war, Captain Wink- ler was in command, and was advanced to the rank of colonel. The regiment under his command took part in the battle of Mission Ridge in November, 1863, and the campaign into East Tennessee for the relief of Knoxville which followed it. In the spring of 1864, when Gen. Sherman organized his army for the invasion of Georgia, it became part of the Third brigade, Third division of the Twen- tieth corps, of which the command was given to General Hooker. It thenceforth took part in all of General Sherman's campaigns, fought many skirmishes and took part in nearly every battle. Per- haps its severest struggle was at Peachtree Creek, July 20, 1864. Of that action the official report of Colonel Wood, then commander of the brigade, contains the following: "Where all behaved well it may be regarded as invidious to call attention to individuals, yet it seems to me that I cannot discharge my whole duty in this re- port without pointing out for especial commendation, the conduct of the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin volunteer infantry, and its brave and able commander. The position of this regiment in the line was such that the brunt of the attack on this brigade fell upon it. The brave, skillful and determined manner in which it met the attack, rolled back the onset and pressed forward in a counter-charge and drove back the enemy could not be excelled by the troops in this or any other army, and is worthy of the highest commendation and praise. It is to be hoped that such conduct will be held up as an example for others. and will meet its appropriate reward."-(Annual report of Wis. Adjt. Gen. for 1864, p. 80.) The regiment marched with Sherman to the sea, and from Savannah through the Caro- linas to Richmond, participating in hot fighting at Averasboro and Bentonville. It took part in the Grand Review in Washington, then proceeded to Milwaukee, where it was mustered out on June 28, 1865, Colonel Winkler being brevetted brigadier-general of vol- unteers "for meritorious service." Gen. William Cogswell, of Massachusetts, then in command of the brigade, in his final report to the War Department, mentioned the Twenty-sixth Wisconsin as "one of the finest military organizations in the service." Before the command of the regiment fell to his hands, Captain Winkler gave a large measure of his time to duties as judge advocate of many courts-martial, charged at times with the trial of the most weighty offenses. In five or six cases it became his duty to certify to headquarters sentences of death ; all but two of these were com- muted. In the court of inquiry to investigate certain reflections on Maj .- Gen. Carl Schurz and a part of his command, contained in General Hooker's official report of the night battle at Wauhatchie in Lookout Valley, Colonel Winkler was, at the request of General Schurz, appointed his counsel, and as a result of the inquiry Gen- cral Schurz and his subordinate, Col. F. Hecker, were "fully ex- onerated from the strictures contained in General Hooker's report."
After leaving the military service General Winkler resumed the practice of his profession. and has been for the past forty years one of the leading attorneys of the city. Messrs. A. R. R. Butler, James G. Jenkins, T. B. Elliott, A. A. L. Smith. John T. Fish, Edward P.
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Vilas, James G, Flanders, E. H. Bottum and C. F. Fawsett having been at different times associated with him as partners. During the last ten years or more he has given a large portion of his time to the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, being a trustee and member of the Finance and Executive committees of that body. In politics he has always supported the Republican party. His marriage to Miss Frances M. Wighitman occurred in 1864, and six daughters and three sons have been born to the union. In char- acter General Winkler is a man who commands the widest respect and admiration. His devotion to duty as a soldier exhibits the same qualities of courage, firmness, energy and faithfulness to the trusts reposed in him that have marked his life as a citizen and a professional man. He is an able jurist and has won in his profes- sion the large success commensurate with his ability. In social life he is a refined and cultured gentleman.
Charles Quarles, deceased, was one of the conspicuous mem- bers of the legal fraternity in Milwaukee throughout a period of twenty years, and being recognized as profound and able, he easily took rank with the leading lawyers of the state. He was a younger brother of Judge J. V. Quarles, of whom extended personal men- tion is made elsewhere in this volume, and in the same connection mention has been made of the fact that their father was one of the pioneer settlers of Kenosha. Charles Quarles was born in Kenosha on Feb. 13. 1846, grew to manhood in that place and be- gan his professional career in the same city. After passing through the full course of study in the public schools and being graduated in the high school, he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and pursued the classical course until the latter part of the senior year. While at Ann Arbor he was a member of the Greek letter society of the Alpha Delta Phi. He left the University a few months before the time for graduation, but some thirty years later, in 1898, that institution conferred upon him the degree of A. B. and ranked him with his class of 1868. His first encounter with the world was in Chicago, where he entered the offices of the Home Fire Insurance Company of New York, remaining thus engaged for about three years, after which he spent two years in the West. principally in southwest Kansas and Indian Territory. While at work in Chicago he had resolved to become a member of the bar, and at the end of his western sojourn, in 1874, he returned to Wis- consin and began the study of law in the office of Head & Quarles at Kenosha. He was a diligent student, pursued a thorough and systematic course of reading, and was admitted to practice in 1875. He immediately began the practice of his profession in Kenosha. which city was the base of his operations for the ensuing thirteen years, at the end of which period his services were in such demand that lie determined to enter a wider sphere of activity. In the spring of 1888 he united with his brother, Joseph V. Quarles, and Thomas W. Spence. then practicing at Racine, to form the firm first known as Quarles. Spence & Dyer, and later as Quarles, Spence & Quarles, which soon commanded a large business and rapidly entered the front rank. The firm had offices both in Mil-
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waukee and Racine and consequently Mr. Quarles moved to Mil- waukee. As a member of this firm Mr. Quarles contributed his full share toward the attainment of its high repute, and he became per- sonally conspicuous among the able and accomplished lawyers of the city and state. In the division of professional labor between members of the firm, it fell to him, in a large proportion of cases, to give attention to the points of law involved in cases at bar, and as a natural consequence he acquired special distinction in this con- nection. As a lawyer he laid no claim to oratory and his addresses to court and jury were usually made in conversational style. But such was the purity of his diction and the clearness of his thought, that they made an argument on the dryest subject a delight. His addresses to juries were masterful efforts, characterized by a com- prehensive grasp of the evidence and a profound knowledge of hu- man nature. His arguments to the court were always to the point, and he had a way of keeping his opponents to the point which often proved disastrous to them. Among the most recent of the import- ant litigation in which he took part, the Schandein will case will be the most quickly recalled to mind, on account of the magnitude of the interests involved as well as of the great interest which the controversy aroused throughought this country and Europe. On Mr. Quarles fell the responsibility of resisting the effort made by the son and daughter of Wisconsin's wealthiest woman to break the will which left the greater portion of her estate to their sister. The battle, which was fought out for nearly two months, was a memorable one and the victory scored by Mr. Quarles was decisive. After the conclusion of this contest, the subject of this memoir figured prominently in the inheritance tax case against the estate of Capt. Frederick Pabst. He also won a complete victory in the Pfister case, and was prominently connected with the litigations growing out of the Bigelow bank failure. At the time of his death Mr. Quarles was engaged as one of the counsel for the defendants in the suit brought by the attorney-general of the state against the street railway company and others for the annulment of the fran- chise of that corporation, and in the argument of the preliminary motions he took an important part. He gave special attention to corporate law, as it relates to the steadily growing interests in- volved in industrial and social questions, being regarded as an authority on these complicated problems, and he was engaged in some of the most important cases arising out of the conflict of in- terests between labor and capital. Leading members of the Mil- wankee bar, upon his sudden and unexpected death, joined in pay- ing tributes to the worth of Mr. Quarles as a man and a lawyer, among which was the following by Judge John C. Ludwig: "I can only say at this moment that Mr. Quarles was one of the most prominent attorneys in the state. He was a man not only of the highest standing in his profession, but was highly educated outside of that, and was generally well informed. He was a thorough gentleman. a man of most amiable disposition, a man of the most acute mind. and highly respected by all who knew him." While he was a firm believer in the platform expressions of the Republican
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party, he was never active in practical politics. He held but two public offices during his life, taking them at the earnest solicitations of many citizens-president of the school board of Milwaukee and also at Kenosha while living there. The position of school director he was appointed to in 1897, and his associates on the board recog- nized the public spirit which prompted a busy man like him to give a portion of his time to the schools by unanimously electing him president of the board. He also served one term as a member of the state board of examiners for the admission of applicants to the bar. He managed to find some time for the social side of life, and was a member of the Milwaukee, the Deutscher, the Country, the University and the Yacht clubs and the Archaeological Society, and his love for animals was attested by his membership in the Wisconsin Humane Society. He was also a member of the Masonic order. He was fond of outdoor sports and made it a rule to en- joy at least one fishing trip a year, going to either Florida or California. He had returned from an annual outing in the latter state a few days before his death, that deplorable event occurring on April 8, 1908. Mr. Quarles was married in November, 1881, to Miss Emma Thiers, of Kenosha, who survives him. Their union was blessed by the birth of four children: Louis Quarles and Charles Bullen Quarles, who were associated with him in the law firm of Quarles, Spence & Quarles; Henry Capron Quarles, who is a senior at the University of Wisconsin, and Miss Ethel Quarles, who is a student at Vassar College.
Francis A. Walsh, of Milwaukee, Wis., has been a member of Wolcott Post, G. A. R., in that city, since 1886, in which local or- ganization he filled the chair of commander in 1903. In the same year he was appointed by Gen. Thomas J. Stuart, commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, to the position of in- spector-general of the national department, and in 1906 he was chief of staff of the department commander of Wisconsin. Mr. Walsh was born at East Greenwich, R. I., July 9, 1847, the son of James T. and Mary F. (O'Neil) Walsh. While the subject of this review was an infant the family removed from Rhode Island to Trumans- burg, Tompkins county, New York, where the father was con- nected with the McClennel Nursery Company. From that point he came west in 1853 and established a nursery at Lena, Ill., intend- ing that his family should join him later, but before they came he met death in a railroad accident. Notwithstanding this great calamity the mother decided to follow the plans previously ar- ranged, and in 1854 she removed to Lena with her children. She was an educated woman, and after locating at Lena followed the profession of teaching to support her family of five boys and two girls. Her son, Francis A., attended school at Lena and worked at farming, and was engaged in the latter occupation when the news was received of the battle of Pea Ridge. A brother who had enlisted in the Ninth Iowa infantry was reported killed in this engagement, and the sad news, although happily incorrect, fired the youth to the point of entering the service himself. He had wanted to enlist earlier, but the objections of his mother pre-
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vailed. In April, 1862, although less than fifteen years old, he enlisted in Company H of the Sixty-seventh Illinois infantry, a regi- ment organized at Camp Douglas and mustered into the United States service for three months. It relieved the veteran forces at Camp Douglas for a time and the latter were sent to the front. Soon after his enlistment our subject was one of the volunteers se- lected to make the exchange of prisoners at Vicksburg, Miss., and did not return until the fall of 1862, being mustered out of the serv- ice in October. He then enlisted in Company G, Forty-sixth Illinois infantry, but his trip to Vicksburg had impaired his health, result- ing in pneumonia, and he was not mustered in. After regaining his health he became an apprentice at the machinist trade, engaging with the Illinois Locomotive Shops at Amboy, Ill., and rapidly ac- quired a technical knowledge of that occupation. He then went to Logansport, Ind., and entered the employ of the Chicago & Great Eastern railway, remaining some time and holding a place of au- thority in the round house. He then went to Chicago and was with the Gates Iron Works as a machinist, and later he was with several other firms until he engaged with the Cornell Watch Com- pany at Grand Crossing, where he had charge of the machine shops and mechanical works until the establishment was sold and re- moved to California. Mr. Walsh then entered the employ of Nor- ton Bros., tinware manufacturers, with whom he remained a num- ber of years, and during which time he invented a number of ap- pliances which were patented. He then opened a place of his own in Chicago and began manufacturing a machine, invented by him- self, for the making of cans used by the large meat packers. He then became a competitor of Norton Bros., who were using several of his inventions, and after building up a large business he removed to Milwaukee in 1883 and established himself in business there, making a splendid success. He was just completing his present large "Walsh" building on the corner of South Water and Reed streets in 1901, when he consolidated his business with the Ameri- can Can Company, in which he is still largely interested. Alto- gether Mr. Walsh has invented some seventy-five or eighty de- vices for the manufacture of machinery for making cans, and today they are in use all over this and other countries. He was a pioneer in that line of work, both as an inventor and promoter, but at pres- ent he is chiefly interested in the transfer and storage warehouse business in the city of Milwaukee. Mr. Walsh was married to Miss Mary Ella Jones, of Elgin, Ill., and to this union were born four children. The eldest child, Francis Herbert, was a member of the Wisconsin National Guard (troop A of Milwaukee) for twelve years and then removed to Colorado, where he enlisted in Troop C of the Colorado National Guard. He was serving with this com- mand during the Cripple Creek labor disturbances, and as the re- sult of exposure in the service he contracted pneumonia. and being taken to Colorado Springs died there on Feb. 25. 1902. at the age of 31 years. He never married. Grace A .. the second born, married George M. Whitcomb, of Desplaines, Ill., and the other two are Cora F. and Nell H., both residents of Milwaukee. The family has
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membership in the St. James Episcopal church, and Mr. Walsh is a Republican in his political affiliations. Charles J. Walsh, a. brother of the subject of this review, and he who was reported killed at the battle of Pea Ridge, was seriously wounded in that engagement by being shot through both ankles by a minie-ball. He then returned to his home in Lena, Ill., and after recovering from his wounds he enlisted in the Seventeenth Illinois cavalry and served until the close of the war. He never recovered entirely from his injuries, and after the close of the war he became a travel- ing salesman, dying while upon one of his trips at Norwalk, Ohio, in 1880. Another brother, James T. Walsh, was a musician in the military band of Gen. Grant's command. Prior to the war he learned the trade of shoemaking, engaged in business in Galena, Ill., and frequently made purchases of leather from Gen. Grant's father, who was in business at that place. After the war James T. Walsh located in Chicago, where he was in the shoe business for a time and then engaged in the paper jobbing business. He died in Chicago on Jan. 23, 1904. A brother-in-law, Andrew McCausland, was also a soldier in the Ninety-second Illinois infantry.
Oscar Wilhelm Carlson, M. D., a native of Stockholm, Sweden, is the only member of his immediate family to come to America. He was born Aug. 1, 1843, and is a son of Charles J. and Caroline Sophia (Leuthstrom) Carlson, the former for many years con- nected with the Swedish army, and the latter a descendant of a French family who followed the fortunes of Bernadotte into Sweden, and was among his loyal supporters after he became king. Two of Dr. Carlson's maternal uncles having settled in America, the lad, at the age of ten years, set out alone to join them, taking passage in a sailing vessel from Goteborg. The third day out the vessel was wrecked by a storm, and drifted helplessly about for three months before it was sighted and towed into the harbor of Londonderry, Ireland. Undaunted by this terrible experience, he again took passage for New York, arriving in that port Jan. 13, 1854, and immediately continued his journey to Columbus, Ohio, to the home of his uncle. Dr. Leuthstrom. The following year he accompanied his uncle to Waukesha, Wis., where he attended the public schools for some three years, and then went to St. Croix county, where he was employed in a lumber camp. Returning to Waukesha in August, 1862, he enlisted in the Twenty-eighth Wis- consin infantry, and served the full term of three years. He was with his regiment in its operations in Arkansas and on the Missis- sippi, and in the brilliant engagement at Helena when the Union forces of 4.000 were attacked by the enemy numbering 18,000. He was also in the siege of Mobile and before Spanish Fort, when the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin was in the trenches from March 27 until April 8. In addition to the ordinary duties of a soldier he was repeatedly detailed to special and important assignments by General Steele. He was honorably discharged from military duty Sept. 22, 1865, and returning to Wisconsin began the study of medi- cine under the preceptorship of his uncle. Dr. Charles Leuthstrom, who had in the meantime removed to Milwaukee, where he had
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