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He also gave the grounds and sufficient funds for the erection and completion of the German Lutheran church, with all the fur- nishings, costing about thirty-five thousand dollars, one of the most beautiful houses of worship in Merrill. He also gave the larger por- tion of funds necessary for the construction of a German school- house, which cost more than fifteen thousand dollars. In this school building Mr. Stange arranged that a large room should be set aside and used as a free library, and soon after the completion of the building, he donated a sum of money sufficient to stock the library .shelves with several thousand volumes of choice books.
While a resident of Racine, in February, 1874, Mr. Stange was united in marriage with Miss Emily Miller, a daughter of William and Hattie Miller, natives of Germany. They have six children : Hattie, Charles, Adelaide, August, Emily, and Lydia. Personally Mr. Stange is a modest, unassuming man, very approachable and a genial entertainer. .
DR. W. F. MALONE. The founder and proprietor of the Hanover Hospital in Milwaukee is a Wisconsin man whose distinguished ability in the field of medicine is too well recognized to require comment. Dur- ing a quarter century of professional activity, Dr. Malone has accepted the best opportunities for high and useful service and his career has many distinctive records of achievements.
Dr. William F. Malone was born in the little village of Rochester in Racine county, June 1, 1862. He is a son of Irish parents, Andrew and Mary (Coleman) Malone, both natives of the city of Dublin, where the father was born February 16, 1820. Within a week after their marriage in 1844, they started for the United States, and first settled in Canton, Massachusetts, where they lived about ten years. John Ma- lone, a brother of Andrew, also came to America at the same time and located in Massachusetts. In 1855 the father and mother came west to Rochester, Wisconsin, where they spent the greater part of their re- maining years. The mother died in Rochester, Wisconsin, February 3, 1888, and the father in Waukesha, January 15, 1897, while visiting his
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son Dr. E. W. Malone. The father was aged seventy-six years and ten months. By trade he was a stone-mason, but for many years followed the quiet pursuits of a farmer. After the death of his wife he spent about nine years in the home of Dr. W. F. Malone, in Milwaukee. There were six children in the family, of whom five are now living, namely : Mary, the oldest, is the widow of Thomas Dowds, of Hastings, Nebraska ; Dr. Thomas C. is a physician and surgeon on National Ave- nue in Milwaukee; Rose, is deceased; Dr. E. W. is the leading physician in Waukesha; Nellie, is the wife of Frank Ferguson of Chicago; and Dr. W. F. is the youngest of the family.
Beginning his education in his home county, and from the first schools entering Rochester Academy, Dr. Malone, when sufficiently ad- vaneed, began his career as a school teacher in his home county. At a later time he taught in the State Industrial School in Waukesha. He next became a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, now the Medical Department of the University of Illinois, at Chicago, where he was graduated with the physicians and surgeons degree in 1888. In that year's graduating class, Dr. Malone was aecorded the high honor of the gold medal for proficiency in the work of the elass.
Dr. Malone began his practice in the country district, spending two years, and on June 6, 1890, established himself in Milwaukee, where he had an office and was in practice for three years. Few men in the profession in the state have sought wider opportunities of observation and training than Dr. Malone. After this initial period of practice in Milwaukee, he went abroad and spent eighteen months in the University of Berlin and was also in the great medical center at Vienna. On his return to this country he was an attendant at the lectures and clinies in the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore. This was followed by another six months study in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City.
After this extended post graduate training Dr. Malone returned to Milwaukee, where he established himself in practice as a surgeon and gynecologist. Soon he accepted the chair of gynecology in the Mil- waukee Medical College, and held that professorship and also the chair of clinical gynecology from 1896 for five years. He then organized and built the Hanover Hospital on the south side, and at the same time organized the south side training school for nurses of Milwaukee. At the present time Dr. Malone has twenty-one nurses in training. and also has a home for the nurses. The Hanover Hospital, at the corner of Madison and Hanover Streets, consisting of the hospital. the nurses training school and quarters, is one of the best equipped institutions of the kind in Wisconsin. ' The building cost Dr. Malone more than one hundred thousand dollars, and he has taken great pride not only in its material facilities, but in keeping up the standards of its service to the highest point. Dr. Malone belongs to the Milwaukee Medieal So-
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ciety, the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Med- ical Society, and the American Medical Association and also the Fox River Valley Medical Society. He has no relations with clubs or fraternities, and has found his recreations in his practice and in the pleasures of his home. At his home he has a splendid private library of five thousand volumes.
Dr. Malone was married April 30, 1901, in Milwaukee, to Miss Ade- laide M. Peck, a daughter of Henry Peck, one of the old settlers of Waukesha county. Mrs. Malone was educated in Milwaukee, graduated from the Whitewater State Normal and also the Milwaukee Normal, and is a talented and accomplished woman. The home of the doctor and wife adjoins the hospital, being at 324 Madison street. Dr. Malone has his office in the hospital building, and also in the Caswell Block on Grand Avenue.
Had Dr. Malone not chosen medicine as his field and gained such important distinctions therein, he would nevertheless have deserved a conspicuous place as one of Wisconsin's foremost farmers and stock- men. He is the owner of four hundred acres of land, situated ten miles south of the city of Milwaukee, and conducts a fine dairy and creamery establishment. His herd comprises sixty-five high grade Holsteins. The prize winner of this herd is a cow which is by all odds the finest specimen of her class west of the Alleghany Mountains. Dr. Malone paid two thousand dollars for this aniinal, and he also paid eleven hundred dollars for one of her calves. The Burwood stock farm, as his estate is called, is modern in every sense, and Dr. Malone has intro- duced in its equipment the same sanitary facilities and standards which he insists upon in his hospital. The entire place including the stables, is lighted by electricity. Another feature of the Burwood farm, is a chicken ranch, with a thousand chickens and also one hundred and fifty thoroughbred Berkshire hogs. Dr. Malone is recognized as having one of the finest stock farms in all Wisconsin.
CARL FRESCHL. The enterprise of Milwaukee manufacturers has long been a familiar fact to the American public, and it is certain that no one of that group of distinguished business builders was more suc- cessful in creating a household word out of his product than the late Carl Freschl, founder of the Holeproof Hosiery Company. After Mr. Freschl, with a singular appreciation of trade demand, and an equal faith in his own output, had established and begun the successful ex- ploitation ,of his business on its guarantee basis, the "holeproof idea" was freely plagiarized and copied, but the pioneer, the originator, and the most successful in the perfection of his goods, was Carl Freschl, whose name is now recognized as a trade mark by hundreds of thous- ands. It was a great business achievement, and few greater, and no
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more honorable successes in business have been known in commercial annals.
Carl Freschl, who had the distinction of being the pioneer manu- facturer of knit goods west of the Alleghanies, and who for nearly thirty years was closely identified with the city of Milwaukee, died at his home in Milwaukee, November 24, 1911, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was born in Prague, Austria. When twenty-six years of age he immigrated to the United States, locating first at Manchester, New Hampshire. From there he moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where in 1872 he founded the Kalamazoo Knitting Works, that being the first hosiery manufacturing plant established in the middle west. In 1882 his plant was moved to Milwaukee, where he continued the business under the same name until 1904. In that year was established the Hole- proof Hosiery Company. Never before had manufacturers of hosiery been able to guarantee satisfactorily their products, and it was Mr. Freschl's technical ability to put on the market an article which would stand all the tests of wear, combined with his courage to take the public into his confidence and issue an out and out guarantee, which caused such a revolution in the hosiery business and which well accounts for the remarkable success of the holeproof company. The idea of guar- anteeing his product was only a manifestation of his deep-seated hon- esty. During his years in business, the late Carl Freschl became widely known and was not only admired by all who understood his pioneer work, but was greatly beloved by those most intimately associated with him. For the last four years of his life he was not actively engaged in directing the affairs of the company, but the business has been con- tinued under the form in which he established it, his own sons having the leading part in its management.
The Holeproof Hosiery Company has its chief factory and general offices in Milwaukee, but also has offices in New York, Chicago, and on the Pacific coast, and the extent of the business is indicated by its foreign incorporations comprising the Holeproof Hosiery Company of Canada, Limited, at London, and the Holeproof Hosiery Company at Liverpool, England. Edward Freschl, the oldest son is now president of the company, William W. Freschl is vice president, Max A. Freschl is superintendent, while the secretary and treasurer is Mr. L. Heil- bronner.
The late Mr. Freschl was a member of Temple Eman'El and was well known and popular in various local organizations of the city. Carl Freschl married Rose Alexander who survives him. Besides the three sons there is one daughter, Mrs. Henry Gattman.
GENERAL CHARLES KING. Wisconsin must always honor her dis- tinguished soldier and author, General Charles King, whose fame as an author is on a parity with his high reputation in the field of military
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science. He is essentially a man of the nation, but Wisconsin is for- tunate in claiming him as a citizen and as one who has distinguished this commonwealth by his character and achievements.
The following paragraphs on his life and services are chiefly drawn from an appreciative estimate written by Forrest Crissey, with some modifications and additions, and quotations unless otherwise noted will give credit to Mr. Crissey.
"First meetings with novelists are often disappointing. No such disappointment, however, awaits any reader of General King's stories who may be fortunate enough personally to meet the celebrated soldier- novelist. The best traits of character in the bravest heroes whom he has pictured in his marvelous stories of frontier chivalry are instantly to be discerned in his face by the stranger who has lived with the heroes of his creating. The military side of General King's character is so dominant that it is difficult to realize, while in his presence, the fact that he belongs to the literary cult. He looks like a soldier, and he is a soldier. If anything can be added to this description by way of bringing the personality more vividly before the eyes of the reader, it may be said that the most stirring act of heroism described in any story he has written is more than paralleled by his life as a soldier. The records have it that General King was born nearly seventy years ago, but there is not a line in his countenance or his figure which would appear re- motely to confirm this statement. He is erect, active and alert. No observant stranger who chanced to pass him upon the street would fail to recognize him as a military man. He is today as fond of athletic sports as when he was a leader of his associates in the stirring pastimes into which he entered, with all the dash, energy, and devotion of a potential soldier, when in training at West Point."
It is scarcely possible to understand his individuality or to account for the remarkable versatility of his gifts without a glance at the sturdy American stock from which he is descendant. His great-grandfather, Hon. Rufus King, was one of the first eminent statesmen representing the state of New York in the United States senate. This distinguished ancestor was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States, and was a powerful figure in old English history of the old Empire State. He was twice chosen United States minister to England, and was accorded every high honor by his appreciative country. His grand- father Charles King was one of the earlier presidents of Columbia Col- lege, and was known as a man of bright scholarship and broad intel- lectual powers.
General Charles King was born at Albany, New York, on the 12th of October, 1844. and is the son of General Rufus and Susan (Eliot) King, both of whom were born in the state of New York and the latter of whom was a descendant of John Eliot, the great Indian apostle in America's early history. General Rufus King possessed in larger
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measure the dominating qualities which have distinguished the son, as he was both a military and intellectual leader, even as he was one of the distinguished and honored pioneers of Wisconsin. General Rufus King's rare qualifications "were recognized by his appointment as minister to the pontifical states at Rome, a position demanding pe- culiar endowments of personal tact, poise and grace, together with a ripe culture and a broad knowledge of affairs." Just as he was about to assume the duties of this diplomatic post, the outbreak of the Civil war deflected him from his course. He promptly resigned his position, re- turned to Wisconsin, assisted in the organization of the early volunteer forces of the state, and became one of the first to receive from President Lincoln appointment to the office of brigadier general. He gave valiant and effective service in behalf of the union as the organizer of the famous "Iron Brigade" of the Army of the Potomac, and later as a division commander. Already for sixteen years, from 1845 to 1861, as editor and publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel he had exerted powerful in- fluence in Wisconsin politics, and as an upholder of a united nation. He passed the closing years of his life in New York City, and was long survived by his devoted wife, who died in Switzerland in 1892. Their names merit enduring place among the pioneers of Wisconsin.
General Charles King's first plunge into soldier life was made when he was a lad of sixteen years. "He had been in New York City in attendance at the preparatory or grammar school connected with Colum- bia College and had just passed examination admitting him to the lat- ter institution when the whole country was thrilled by the echo of the guns at Fort Sumter. Instantly his dreams of his college days were for- gotten and before another day had passed, after the Union troops had begun to assemble in Washington, his soldier blood was bounding in his veins and he was on his way to the capital city. There his father's old friends from the Badger state were surprised to greet the face of the boy in the camp of the Wisconsin volunteers. It was plain to these vet- erans that the lad had not come from idle curiosity for his drum-sticks were in his hand and his finger itching to play the reveille. In spite of extreme youth he was made 'mounted orderly' at brigade headquarters. Early in his active career as a soldier he served as guide for General Winfield Scott Hancock in Virginia. In the course of his service the lad's ability was brought to the personal attention of President Lincoln who gave his promise that the boy should be given a cadetship at West Point. In pursuance of this pledge young King was sent to the United States Military Academy in June, 1862. Two years later he was there made first sergeant of Company B, and in 1865, he became adjutant of the corps of cadets.
"An old companion has said of him that in those days of his train- ing he was distinguished by his sunny temper, and by the fact that, contrary to the prevailing usages of the school, he never failed to have Vol. V-9
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a good word for the down-trodden 'plebe,' besides which he hated math- ematics as ardently as he loved rollicking fun and reckless sport. It is evident, however, that he must have mastered his dislike for mathe- matics as he was graduated with the rank of number twenty-two in a class of more than forty members.
"Until September, 1866, King remained at West Point in the capacity of instructor in artillery. He left this position to join light battery K of the First Artillery stationed at New Orleans. His next remove was to Fort Hamilton, in connection with battery C. Then he was recalled to West Point to instruct future officers in the mysteries of horsemanship and cavalry and artillery tactics. In 1871 he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Emory, from which position he was transferred to Troop K of the Fifth Cavalry, which was then being removed from Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming to Camp Hualpai, Arizona. This was an important move and afforded him his introduction to the perils and hardships of frontier Indian warfare. He was in command of Troop K, which did heroic work against the Apaches, a tribe which sustained its reputation for cruelty, cunning and courage. In these desperate encounters he dis- played the coolness and indifference to danger which have uniformly characterized his entire military career.
"In the fight at Diamond Butte, May 25, 1874, his bravery was so con- spicuous that his recommendation for promotion to the rank of captain was made by the commanding general. It was a marvel to his comrades that he came out of one fight after another without a scratch, for no pri- vate in the ranks exposed himself more persistently to the enemy than did the leader of Troop K. There were many doleful prophesies that this exemption from Apache bullets could not continue indefinitely, and the historic fight of Sunset Pass November 1, 1874, fulfilled these unhappy predictions. In the midst of the encounter, Lieutenant King found him- self and Sergeant Bernard Taylor cut off from his troopers and the cen- ter of a wicked fire from the Apaches. It is not improbable that this country would have missed one of its most entertaining and typically American novelists, had not a naked savage, hiding behind a rock, sent a well aimed bullet into the body of Lieutenant King. His right arm was shattered and he gave peremptory order to Sergeant Taylor to leave him to his fate and save himself. This command the plucky sergeant delib- erately refused to obey, and, standing over the body, of his fallen lieu- tenant Taylor fought back the Apaches, until a detachment of troopers came to the rescue. The wound healed sufficiently to permit General King to engage in the celebrated Big Horn and Yellowstone expeditions, in which he added materially to his laurels and was rewarded by General Wesley Merritt by appointment as adjutant of the regiment. A year later, in the fall of 1877, he was in the thick of the Nez Perce campaign, and earlier had been called to the scene of the railroad riots in Council Bluffs and Chicago.
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"His next experiences were in connection with the Bannock uprising. This was followed by more severe mountain scouting in 1878. Next year he had attained to the rank of captain and was in command of Troop A. The old wound received at Sunset Pass, had in time, given him constant and increasing trouble, and at length became so serious that it compelled him to appear before the retiring board for permission to relinquish his active military career. This petition was regretfully complied with, and after his retirement from the service he returned to his home in Wisconsin."
In the general orders issued from the office of the adjutant general of Wisconsin, under date of January 15, 1897, in connection with the application of Brigadier General Charles King to be placed on the re- tired list of the Wisconsin National Guard, is given the following epitome of his military career :
"Brigadier General Charles King began his military career as a marker in the First Regiment, Wisconsin State Militia, (Colonel Rufus King) in 1856. He was drummer for the Milwaukee Light Guard (Com- pany A, First Regiment, Wisconsin State Militia) in 1859-60, and mounted orderly King's (Iron) Brigade, Army of the Potomac in 1861 He was a private in Company A, Battalion of Cadets, West Point, 1862; a corporal of Company B in 1863; a first sergeant in 1864; and adjutant of the battalion in 1865. He became second lieutenant, First Regiment Artillery, United States Army, 1866, and an instructor in artillery tac- ics at West Point the same year. He commanded the Gatling Platoon, Light Battery K, First Artillery, New Orleans riots, 1868; was acting adjutant at Fort Hamilton, March, 1869; instructor infantry, artillery and cavalry tactics, West Point, 1869-71 ; first lieutenant, First Artillery, 1869. He was transferred at his own request, to Fifth Regiment Cav- alry, January, 1871, and became aide-de-camp to Major General Emory, 1871-74. In 1872-73, he was acting judge advocate and engineer officer. Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, and engaged in suppression of riots during that time. In 1874 he commanded a troop in the Apache campaign in Arizona, and was engaged in actions at Diamond Butte. Black Mesa and Sunset Pass until severely wounded. Brevet captain. for gallant and distinguished conduct in action against hostile Indians, May, 1874 (declined). In 1875 he was on leave, disabled by wounds. but in 1876 he became adjutant Fifth Cavalry, and in the Sioux cam- paign was engaged with hostile Cheyennes at War Bonnet Creek. Wyom- ing, commanding advance guard, July 17, and in the combats at Slim Buttes, Dakota, September 9 and 10. He was acting adjutant general of Merritt's cavalry in suppression of railway riots. 1877, and of Mer- ritt's cavalry command (Third and Fifth Cavalry) in Nez Perce cam- paign, Wyoming and Montana, 1877. He was promoted captain Troop A, Fifth Cavalry, May 1, 1879; placed on retired list, United States Army, for 'disability resulting from wounds in line of duty.' June 14.
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1879. Professor of military science and tactics, University of Wisconsin, 1880-82; colonel and aide-de-camp to Governor Rusk, 1882-9, and to Gov- ernor Hoard 1889-91, and assistant inspector general Wisconsin Na- tional Guard, 1883-89. He commanded the Fourth Infantry, Wisconsin National Guard, 1890-92, and was commandant of cadets, Michigan Military Academy, while on three months' leave, 1892. In 1895 was ap- pointed adjutant general of the Wisconsin National Guard, retiring January 4, 1897.
"In all his admirable work in connection with the Wisconsin Na- tional Guard, General King has brought into play the valuable experi- ence and ripe judgment gained from such a long and honorable career in the service of his country, uniting with this such rare tact and dis- cretion in dealing with affairs and men that in every direction uniform success has stamped his every effort. He has left an indelible imprint upon the organized military forces of the state, an influence that has had beneficial effect in every branch of the service. He has systematized the work, expanded and perfected the plan of instruction, raised the dis- cipline to a high standard, and by his manliness and kindness won the commendation of critics and the admiration and love of those who served under him."
Still more recently, in a time well remembered by the majority of living Americans, General King was commander of Volunteer forces in the Philippine Islands. Concerning this phase of his career the follow- ing brief record has been given. "The outbreak of the war with Spain in 1898 found him in better health than he had enjoyed for many years, and stirred his soldier blood as deeply as did the first call for volunteers in 1861. May 27th brought him his appointment as brigadier general of volunteers. He was ordered, June 2, to report to General Merritt, in San Francisco, and left for that city two days later, taking later depart- ure for the Philippines, where he commanded the men of the First Wash- ington, First California, and First Idaho Regiments. General King con- fesses that he was never so happy in his life as when leading these men against the Filipinos. His only regret is that ill health compelled his voluntary retirement in August, 1899. He commanded his forces with consummate gallantry in the Philippine campaign, and was accorded the highest recommendations for promotion to the rank of major general of volunteers."
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