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The Carney home in Milwaukee is at 786 Fortieth street. His do- mestic life has been one of rare felicity, and in the modern generations of Americans he has reason for particular pride in his large family of children. He was married in this city on May 19, 1891, to Miss Frances Kleiner, danghter of John and Margaret Kleiner .. Mrs. Carney has always been devoted to home and family, and in the careful training of her children has had little time and less inclination for the less important activities of women in clubs and social affairs. Thirteen children have come into their home circle, ten of whom are living, namely : Joseph E., born November 30, 1893, now with the Sterling Wheelbarrow Co. of West Allis; Irene M., born June 30, 1895; Clarence J., September 14, 1897; Roland HI., February 13, 1899; James G., Jan- uary 17, 1902; Cyril G., May 27, 1903; Margaret F., September 25, 1904: Frances J., March 16, 1906; John H., February 8, 1908; William C., April 7, 1911. The deceased children were : A son, stillborn, April 30, 1892; Florence, born September 9, 1896; and Carol G., born March
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26, 1900. This is a fine household of strong and alert young folks, and being trained for lives of usefulness and honor.
BURR W. JONES. For more than thirty years Burr W. Jones has been an active member of the Wisconsin State bar, among whose dis- tinguished members, by his learning, industry, ability and character, - he has held a high rank, while he is no less valued in the community as a liberal-minded and enterprising citizen. Mr. Jones, now one of the three oldest practicing legists in Madison, was born at Evansville, Rock county, Wisconsin, March 9, 1846, and is a son of William and Sarah (Prentice) Jones, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and the ' latter of New York. Willliam Jones came to the territory of Wiscon- sin in 1845, and first located in Walworth county for a short time, then removing as a pioneer to the vicinity of Evansville, in Rock county. where he continued to reside until his death in 1855. After his death, his widow married Levi Leonard, also an early settler of Rock county. There were but two children in the family : Burr W., and a sister who married A. J. Pettigrew and is now deceased.
The early education of Burr W. JJones was secured in the district schools of his native locality, which he attended during the winter terms, while spending the summer months in assisting his father in the work of the home farm. He subsequently attended Evansville Seminary, after leaving which he took up the vocation of teacher. in which he proved himself capable and popular. But however competent he was for the educator's vocation, he took it up only as a means of securing the necessary pecuniary equipment with which to further his education, and as a stepping-stone to the law, to which he aspired as his permanent calling. Thus educating himself, he was twenty-five years of age before he graduated from the law school, although he had completed the classical course in the University of Wisconsin the year previous, and had for classmates several men who have attained more than ordinary eminence in the profession of law. After finishing his law course, Mr. Jones entered the office of Col. Vilas for a short time, but within the year opened an office of his own in Portage, soon there- after returning to Madison to enter the office of Judge Alden S. San- born, one of the pioneer lawyers of the state. This association lasted only a short time and afterwards Mr. Jones practiced alone until 1874, at which date he formed a partnership with Gen. A. C. Parkinson, and later one with F. J. Lamb. He subsequently practiced alone for some time, until forming his connection with Judge E. Ray Stevens, which continued until the appointment of M. Stevens to the bench.
Mr. Jones has not entered very largely into political life, his affilia- tions with the Democratic party in a state formerly very largely Re- publican, as well as his own tastes, which are those of a scholarly gen- tleman, having probably combined to exclude him from positions in
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national political affairs which he is eminently fitted to occupy. How- ever, in 1872, at the very beginning of his political career, he was elected district attorney on the Democratic ticket and reelected in 1874, and in 1882 he was sent to congress from what was then the Third district, a Republican stronghold which was at the time indulg- ing in a party conflict. During his two years of service he demon- strated his ability to fill the position, but a union of the divided Re- publican forces prevented his return and substituted Robert M. La- Follette, although the fact that he ran far ahead of his ticket spoke for itself of his congressional record. In 1891 he was elected city attorney and held the office for some time, and was also chairman of the first state tax commission for 1897-8. He has served his own party as chairman of the State Democratic convention in 1892 and as dele- gate to the Democratic National convention in 1896, and has repeatedly declined to act upon similar occasions. He is an eloquent speaker, and his services have always been in demand above his power to accept for campaign work and other occasions when the persuasive voice of the orator is needful. He has delivered addresses before various state and county bar associations. Mr. Jones has chosen to place the empha- sis of his legal work along two lines-primarily, upon the legitimate work of the attorney, and the laurels won in his legal battles, when the ablest counsel of the Northwest have been arrayed against him have been fairly obtained and well deserved, for his learning is exten- sive and accurate, his judgment in legal matters nearly infallible, and his courtesy, under the most trying of circumstances, unfailing ; sec- ondly-upon his work as a member of the faculty of the law school, which position, as lecturer on Domestic Relations, and the law of Evidence, he has filled most acceptably for more than twenty-five years. In this connection he has produced a treatise on the law of Evidence which has gone through several editions and is a standard authority. Mr. Jones' legal attainments are of a solid rather than a showy nature. He is thoroughly grounded in elementary principles, and possessed of a fine discrimination in the application of legal precedents. While he is a fluent speaker, his style is noticeable for purity and accurate use of words. Unlike many, he did not abandon his classical studies when he left college; his literary tastes are those of the student, and he frequently appears upon the programs of the Madison Literary Club, of which he is a member. He also holds membership in the Uni- versity Club, and socially is widely known throughout the city. Mr. Jones is very active in his habits, and a tireless worker. He is enthu- siastic in whatever engages his attention, and takes great interest in the friends and attachments of his early life. With great confidence in the growth and prosperity of Madison, he is a large property holder, being one of the twenty-five heaviest tax payers in the city, and has thus shared in the increase of values.
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On December 4, 1873, Mr. Jones was married to Miss Olive Hoyt, who was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and reared in Madison, daugh- ter of L. W. Hoyt, an early settler of Dane county, Wisconsin, and sister of Frank W. Hoyt, a leading banker of Madison. She was a charter member of the Woman's Club, of which she was presiding offieer for some time, and was an active participant in the social life of the city. Her death occurred April 19, 1906, leaving one daughter : Marion B., now the wife of Walter M. Smith, librarian of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, who has two daughters: Olive and Janet, and a son, Burr. In 1908, Mr. Jones was married to Katharine MaeDonald, a native of Wisconsin, who is widely known in social cireles of Madison and prominent in educational work. Before her marriage she was for many years Assistant Secretary of the State Library Commission, and editor of the periodical publication of the American Library As- sociation. She is now a member of the Madison Library Board. The family home is at No. 112 Langdon street.
CHARLES L. KISSLING, SR., M. D. One of the distinguished early physicians and surgeons of Milwaukee, the late Dr. Charles L. Kissling was in practice in this eity about twenty years, and was one of the leading German-American physicians of Milwaukee during the period ineluding the decades of the fifties and sixties.
Charles L. Kissling, Sr., was born at Ulm, Wuertemberg, Germany. March 17, 1827. He was educated in the preparatory schools of Uln. and graduated in medicine from the University of Teubingen in Wuer- temberg. For several years he was an army surgeon in his native provinee, and in 1851 came to the United States, and after landing at New York went direet to Milwaukee, which was a young but vigor- ously growing town at that time. He allied himself with the best eireles of the little eity, and continued to praetiee medieine there until 1871. On account of failing health he then returned to Germany with his family, locating in the city of Stuttgart, the capital of Wuertemberg. and never returned to America. He died at Stuttgart, February 12. 1878. In 1862 Dr. Kissling was commissioned by the government of Wisconsin as examining surgeon for Milwaukee county in the general order providing for a draft of the militia. He was a Democrat in polities, was affiliated with Aurora Lodge of Masonry in Milwaukee. and was also an active member of the German Musieal Society.
Dr. Kissling married Miss Caroline Bueller in Germany before he had come to America. In 1871 all the family returned to Germany. where Mrs. Kissling died February 1. 1883. There were two children in the family, Edwina, and Dr. Charles L., Jr. Edwina, who died in Straasburg, Germany, December 1, 1890. was the wife of Col. Carl Schwartz, who was an officer in the German army, and stationed at Straasburg at the time. Both the children of the late Dr. Kissling. Sr ..
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were born in Milwaukee. Dr. Kissling, Sr., was a member of the school board in Milwaukee during the years 1864-65-66-67-68.
CHARLES L. KISSLING, JR., M. D. A son of the pioneer Milwaukee physician, whose career has been briefly outlined above, Dr. Charles L. Kissling, Jr., is bound to Milwaukee by the ties of nativity and by the loyal affection which has come through his important professional and civic relations with the city in later years.
He was born in Milwaukee, February 14, 1859, was reared in the city until twelve years of age, during which time he attended the pub- lic school in the Second ward, from 1865 to 1869, and the German- English Academy from 1869 to 1871. In the latter year, as already related, the father took his family to Germany, and there he continued his studies in the schools of Stuttgart, and at Ulm, from 1871 to 1880. Dr. Kissling is a product of the best university training of Europe. and from 1880 to 1886, was a student in medicine and sciences at the University of Munich, where he was graduated. During the following year he was in the hospitals in Munich, and in 1887, with his thorough equipment he returned to his native city of Milwaukee, from which he had been absent for sixteen years. Dr. Kissling has built up a large practice and is regarded as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the city. During 1890 he returned to Germany, during the illness of his sister, and remained there three months. His sister had also for some time attended the school in the Second ward of Milwaukee.
In politics Dr. Kissling is a Republican. He has never been a poli- tician in the usual sense of the term, but has given some very valuable service to his home city as a member of the board of education, of which he has been a member for about eleven years. He was first appointed a member of the board in 1900, serving until 1905. In 1907 he was elected by the people for the regular term of six years, and in April, 1913, was again elected for another term of six years.
Dr. Kissling has membership in the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, and American Medical Association. He is affiliated with Aurora Lodge of Masons, to which his father also belonged, and with Kilbourne Chapter, R. A. M., and Wisconsin Commandery, K. T. He is a member of the board of the German-English Teachers Seminary of Milwaukee.
Dr. Kissling married Miss Grace Gordon Forbes, of London, Eng- land where she was born and educated. Her father was the late Rev. Granville Forbes, an Episcopal minister of London.
CARL C. JOYS. Nearly sixty years ago, or in 1855, a young Nor- wegian sailor left the high seas to become a citizen of the United States, but he chose his home along our great inland waters where he could still follow the life of a mariner. The young seaman was
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John Joys and his location was Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the. interim since then Milwaukee has taken its place as one of the largest cities and marts along the Great Lakes, and the young man's name, as years passed, became one of the best known and most prominent in this city in connection with marine affairs. He has lately passed from the scene of his long activity, but his sons, one of whom is Carl C. Joys, our subject, are continuing the prominence of the fam- ily name in connection with this line of business.
Capt. John Joys was a native of Farsund, Norway, and in his youth as a sailor before the mast he visited many of the great ports of the world, becoming a cabin boy at the age of thirteen. He came to the United States in 1855 and located at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he entered the merchant marine service on the Great Lakes that same year. He rapidly worked his way upward and soon became a cap- tain. Later, in company with Frederick Layton and Edward Cole, he built the schooner James Christy, of which he was captain several years, and other craft under his charge during his lake career were the schooners C. G. Breed, Wancoma and Alice B. Norris. He re- tired from the occupation of sailing master in 1875, in which year he entered the firm of G. D. Norris & Company, ship chandlers. Later, with his brother, Andrew M. Joys, he bought out the old firm and established the firm of Joys Brothers to continue the ship chandlery business. After a long identification with this line of business activ- ity he passed away at his home in Milwaukee May 23, 1910; at the age of seventy-seven years. His funeral was conducted under the aus- pices of Excelsior Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was a member, as he was also of Wisconsin Commandery, No. 1. Knights Templar, and a large concourse of marine men and other friends paid respect to the passing of one of Milwaukee's pioneers and worthy and esteemed men. Captain Joys wedded Christine Gabrielson, who died in 1865, and who was a daughter of Samuel Gabrielson, an old pioneer of Milwaukee, who died in 1907. Two children were born to this union, Samuel, now deceased, he having passed away May 8, 1900; and Carl C. Joys, the immediate subject of this review. The father married, second, Emily Lund, and four children were born of this union: Emma, deceased; John Joys, Jr .. a resident of Milwaukee and now vice-president of the Joys Brothers Company ; Alma, who is now Mrs. Cyrus J. Williams and resides in Los Angeles, California; and Elizabeth, deceased.
Carl C. Joys was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 11. 1860, and was educated in the public schools of this city. In 1875 he took employment in the grain commission house of II. B. Kellogg. but in 1885 he quit the grain business and entered the marine busi- ness of the late Capt. David Vance. Two years later he became a partner of Capt. Vance, when was established the Vance & Joys
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Company, which is engaged in marine business as transportation and vessel agents and of which Mr. Joys is now president. He is also president of the David Vance Company, the province of which is marine insurance. Mr. Joys has now been a member of the Mil- waukee Chamber of Commerce thirty years and he is also a member of the Lake Carriers Association. He is not only numbered among the prominent business men of this city, but he has also assumed other responsibilities of citizenship in connection with its public life. In 1900 he served as a member of the city service commission, which looks after the civil service part of the official force of this city, and in 1911 he was made a member of the harbor commission, his term extending to October, 1915. In politics he is a Republican, as a staunch admirer of Senator La Follette, and at all times is an advo- cate of progress and civic betterment. Fraternally he is affiliated with Excelsior Lodge, Free & Accepted Masons, Milwaukee, and with Wisconsin Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar, in this city.
On June 2, 1886, the same day of President Cleveland's marriage to Miss Florence Folsom, Mr. Joys was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Saveland, daughter of Capt. Zach Saveland, who became a pioneer settler in Milwaukee along in the early '40s and who died in this city many years ago. Mrs. Joys was born and educated here and passed away February 9, 1903. To this union was born two children, Carl C. Joys, Jr., who is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and now resides in Pittsburg, Pa., and Florence, a grad- uate of Downer College, Milwaukee. Mr. Joys resides at 358 Hanover street and has spent all his life in this same ward in this city.
WILLIAM L. PIEPLOW. There is special consistency in according in this publication definite recognition of the character and services of this well known and highly esteemed native son of Milwaukee, for he has not only won success and prestige in connection with business activities of importance but has also shown himself to be animated by the highest of ideals in connection with civic affairs and has been defi- nitely influential in connection with educational matters in the state that has ever represented his home. He is a young man of resolute purpose, well defined convictions and progress spirit, and his high sense of personal stewardship has been shown in many ways. Such loyal and public-spirited citizens represent much in the community life, and it is gratifying to present in this publication a brief review of the career of Mr. Pieplow.
William L. Pieplow was born at Bay View, one of the most at- tractive residence sections of the city of Milwaukee, on the 12th of April, 1876, and is a son of Charles and Caroline Pieplow, both of whom were born in Mecklenburg, Germany, and both of whom passed the closing period of their lives in Milwaukee, where they established
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their home many years ago and where both held secure place in pop- ular confidence and esteem. Charles Pieplow was a sailor on the high seas as a young man and later became identified with navigation inter- ests on the Great Lakes. After his retirement from a seafaring life he held for more than twenty years a position as foreman in the rolling mills of the Illinois Steel Company at Bay View. Both he and his wife were devout communicants of the Lutheran church and Mrs. Pieplow was for many years president of the Ladies' Aid Society of St. Lucas Evangelical.Lutheran church.
William L. Pieplow gained his early educational discipline in the Lutheran parochial school and the public schools of Milwaukee and supplemented this by effective course in a local business college. He has known personal responsibility since his boyhood days, as he was but fifteen years of age when he assumed a clerkship position in a hardware store. It may also be noted that at the age of twelve years he manifested his musical talent by becoming a cornet player in the Bay View Band. In 1893 he became identified with the American School Board Journal and for ten years he was its office manager and associate editor. In this connection was fostered his deep and abiding interest in educational affairs, and it is pleasing to be able to make the following extracts from an appreciative estimate written by Wil- liam George Bruce, publisher of the periodical mentioned :
"I have had the opportunity of viewing the subject of this sketch at a close range and to observe from time to time his development and progress. When Pieplow eame, some years ago, to the School Board Journal, of which I am the publisher, he was fresh from a business school and inexperienced in the ways of the world. But he realized that he had much to learn, much to acquire, much to digest. He took an accurate measurement of himself, threw all conceit to the winds and applied himself with industry to his task. He not only became all accurate accountant, a good correspondent, but he also mastered the English language so as to make him a forceful writer on school admin- istrative topics. This in itself was an achievement. It not only meant close application to duty but at the same time a broadening of vision and a strengthening in general educational equipment. It required a dogged determination to swing himself into a higher and broader field of useful activity. Thus Mr. Pieplow succeeded in raising himself from a mere office clerk into an editorial writer on school administra- tion of a higher order. During this time he also acquired profieieney in executive labors.
"When Mr. Pieplow entered the school board he at once assumed a commanding position. His familiarity with the subject of school administration, together with the high aims and purposes with which he was imbued and the unflinching attitude on all measures making for the better sehools, were soon recognized. When he went to the
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legislature to ask for the abolishment of a school board of which he himself was a member it was freely predicted that he was doomed to oblivion. Some of his closest friends were antagonistic to his efforts. The progressive element to which he had allied himself and whose most prominent exponent he had become, won its battle. Instead of oblivion, new honors awaited him. The judges of the local courts, to whom was assigned the task of creating a new school board, placed Mr. Pieplow's name first on the list of appointees. In the whole con- test he was a picturesque figure, at all times eloquent and forceful, unselfish and bold.
"Mr. Pieplow holds a responsible position with the A. J. Lindemann & Hoverson Company, where both his executive ability and educational qualifications are brought into play. Ile is capable of much work, solving intricate problems and surmounting difficult obstacles. Mr. Pieplow is a fine type of the progressive young man of the day. Let us have more just like him."
After his retirement from active association with the School Board Journal Mr. Pieplow was for two years engaged in the monument busi- ness, with Charles Lohr and Edward Boyle. In 1905 he became the advertising manager of the A. J. Lindemann & Hoverson Company, and a short time later became the manager of the Arcadian Malleable Range Company. From his early youth Mr. Pieplow has manifested deep and intelligent interest in governmental affairs,-national, state and local, and he presided at big political campaign meetings before he had attained to his legal majority. He has been arrayed with the progressive wing of the Republican party and has been a valued factor in its activities in his native state. Ile has been a member of the Mil- waukee board of school directors since 1902, and was re-elected to this important post in 1913, for another term of six years. He was presi- dent of the board in 1908-9 and this distinction was accorded him when he was but thirty-two years of age, as a concrete expression of the objective appreciation of his ability, loyalty and effective services. Ilis address in retiring from this office is a noteworthy contribution to the educational history of the city and state, his having been the fiftieth annual report of the affairs of the public-school system of Mil- waukee. Mr. Pieplow is a popular figure in the business and social activities of his home city, is a director of the South Division Civie Association, is president of the Security Loan & Building Association, and is president of the Handel Choir, one of the representative musical organizations of an intensely musical city. Both he and his wife are zealous communicants of the Layton Park English Lutheran church.
On the 24th of April, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Pieplow to Miss Emilie Klingbeil, of Milwaukee, and they have one daughter, Erna, who was born May 6, 1903.
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JULIUS GOLL. With the death of Julius Goll in 1896, Milwaukee lost one of her most successful business men, a man who had been a pioneer merchant in the city and whose business had grown from a small affair to large proportions, in keeping with the growth of the city itself. Mr. Goll showed throughout his business career, keen ability along commercial lines and the strictest integrity and honesty, so that his success was due, not only to his active and energetic handling of the affairs of his company, but also to the splendid reputation which the firm of Goll and Frank possessed, and which was due in no small meas- ure to his own personal efforts.
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