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W. J. SCHADE. Since 1910 W. J. Schade has been proprietor of the Lancaster Sanitarium, which he founded here in that year, and he has carried on a work that has been the means of relieving much of suf- fering in that time. The gymnasium which he conducts in conjunction with the Sanitarium, is one of the best equipped of its kind in the coun- try and is a popular resort among all classes of people in the city who realize that the secret of health and strength lies primarily in syste- matic exercise. His work is a highly commendatory one and deserves mention in a publication of this order.
Prof. Schade was born on January 15, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois, and is a son of John and Mata (Schretner) Schade, both natives of Germany. The father came to America in 1862 and located in Chicago, where he took up the work of a carpenter, in which he had been thoroughly trained in his native land. Both parents ended their days in the city of Chicago, where the subject was reared to years of manhood. A liberal elementary education was given him as a boy, after which he began his independent career as a clerk in a wholesale wall paper house. He continued with them for eleven years, when he was taken ill and after resorting to every approved treatment he was given up to die. He was later healed of his infirmities, and he was so impressed with the possibilities existing in the new treatment that he eventually withdrew from all other interests and has since devoted himself to a form of treatment based upon that employed in his own case, the same meeting with the most unquali- fied success in his sanitarium.
The Lancaster Sanitarium is a modern institution, and in its opera- tion are employed all of the following methods: Thermotherapy ; Hydro- Therapy ; Electro-Therapy ; Spondylotherapy ; Osteopathy; Chiropractic and Massage. These treatments are applied to all chronic diseases due to stagnant conditions and insufficient circulation, and the success that Prof. Schade has already experienced in his work is ample evidence of the efficiency of the remedy and the method of treatment. One of the salient features of the treatment employed here is the Human Bake- Oven, which embodies all the best features of the Turkish bath, and avoids the disadvantages, such as the breathing of foul air in an air tight compartment. The method employed with the Human Bake-Oven provides an air-tight tank, into which the patient, after being robed in Turkish bath robe, mittens and stockings, is placed upon a sliding table and rolled into the tank, all but the head being then subjected to an intense heat which may be increased to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. A pro- fuse but pleasant perspiration follows, driving germs from the blood and destroying pain in the most agreeable manner. This Bake-Oven is regarded as the height of perfection in the matter of applying heat to the body for the relief of pain, a treatment that has for centuries been regarded as a most efficient one in the relief of pain. Modern science has the crude methods of applying heated cloths, stones, etc., to the
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affected parts, and the water bag finally came to be recognized as the boon of humanity, as it still is in many homes. The last word in scientific methods of applying heat would seem to have been said, with the appear- ance of the Human Bake-Oven as employed in the Lancaster Sanitarium, and there are to be found innumerable people willing to testify to the relief they have obtained from sufferings long endured as a result of Prof. Schade's methods.
The gymnasium and physical culture school in the City Hall Build- ing, of which Prof. Schade is the physical director, is complete in all its equipments. Some of the apparatus in a daily use there are as fol- lows; four double trapezes; four sets of rings; ten Whitley machines; two climing ropes; a climbing pole; a fourteen foot angle ladder; a set of eight ounce gloves; a jumping horse; a spring board; an eighteen foot ring; canvas floor ; a home trainer ; six dozen Indian clubs; six dozen small dumb bells; six skipping ropes : parallel bars; horiontal bars; two platform bags; three top and bottom bags; one floor bag; one double revolving ladder; one Ferriswheel; a half ton dumb bells, from one pound to two hundred and thirty-eight pounds; shower baths, stomach muscle machine, and many others of equal importance in a modern and properly equipped gymnasium and school.
Many wonderful cures are reputed to have been wrought in Prof. Schade's sanitarium and his instruction in physical culture has been a decided boon to the youth of Lancaster.
Prof. Schade is a graduate of the Mechano-Therapy College and of the National Chiropractic College also. He is a member of the Chi- cago Athletic Club, of which he was an instructor prior to his coming to Lancaster. He first visited this city as a guest, and his powers in athletics being known, he was induced to remain and open a gymnasium. He accordingly organized an athletic club in which he has continued to be the instructor, and later opened the Lancaster Sanitarium which has had a wide patronage from the first.
R. A. WATKINS. One of the best known and most successful law firms of Lancaster and Grant county was that with which R. A. Watkins was for years identified, and though the firm is no longer in exist- ence, owing to the death of several of its constituent members, Mr. Watkins himself still carries on an extensive practice at Lancaster, and, it should be mentioned, has been the longest at the bar of any attorney now in active practice at the Grant county bar. Of other attorneys who were his business partners, some mention will be made in the following paragraphs. Born on a Grant county farm, Jannary 15, 1853, Mr. R. A. Watkins is the son of Stephen D. and Florinda (Hirst) Watkins. His father, a farmer by vocation, moved into Lan- caster in 1866, and there his life came to a close two years later. He had settled in Ohio in 1837, when a youth of about sixteen years, hav-
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ing moved to that state from Vermont. He lived in Ohio eight years. During the winter seasons he gave some time to the teaching of country schools, and was long a prominent factor in the best activities of his community. The ancestry is further traced baek to Grandfather Dr. John Watkins, who died in Windsor county, Vermont, in 1829, and through great-grandfather, who was a soldier in the Revolution- ary war.
R. A. Watkins had a common school education as a boy, and such higher education as was his came entirely as the result of his own efforts and his utilization of opportunity. At Lancaster he entered the offices of Buslmell & Clark, and there studied law until admitted to practice by Judge Mills in 1876.
He continued as a clerk with Bushnell & Clark for three years longer, and then was invited to enter the firm. In July, 1882, Col. John G. Clark withdrew from the firm, leaving its title Bushnell & Watkins. Thus it continued until January 1, 1895, when Herbert L. Moses became an associate. Since the death of Mr. Bushnell in 1909, and the retirement of Mr. Moses, Mr. Watkins has continued the business in the same offices. occupied by the firm for many previous years.
Mr. Watkins has long upheld the principles of Democracy, and has been a diligent worker for the best interests of that party, al- though never seeking public office at any time. His services to his community have been rather of a more private nature, and his present office of city attorney of Lancaster is perhaps the most important pub- lic place he has ever held.
Outside of his profession Mr. Watkins has seldom ventured. However, in 1901, when the Federal government opened the Kiowa. Comanche and the Apache reservation in southwestern Oklahoma, he attended the opening, secured a claim, and still owns the land, which he has developed into a fine farm of considerable value. He takes pride in the place since it represents his only country invest- ments.
In 1881, Mr. Watkins was married at Lancaster to Miss Ellen M. Clark, daughter of Charles I. Clark, and niece of Col. John G. Clark. long and favorably known as one of the eminent members of the Wisconsin bar, and whose career is sketched in other pages of this work. Charles I. Clark was a resident of Texas at the time of the Civil war, and was thrust unwillingly into the southern service. The irony of faith was that he should lose his life as an unwilling partiei- pant in the war under the southern flag, though death claimed him before he had actually fought in any battle.
Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Watkins: Charles S .. Ralph B., Margaret, Ellen, and John C. Both parents have long been members of the Congregational church. and Mr. Watkins has given
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service as deacon and as secretary and treasurer of the society, while for many years he served as superintendent of the Sunday school, in which he manifests a very enthusiastic and wholesome inter- est. The family is one that enjoys the highest esteem, and has a wide circle of friends in Lancaster, and they participate in the best social life of the city.
A. R. BUSHNELL. The life and service of the late A. R. Bushnell as a leading member of the Wisconsin bar were of the highest order, and . Grant county will long cherish the memory of his personality, his dignified character, and influential activity. He was for many years identified in practice with Mr. R. A. Watkins, previously mentioned and was the preceptor of that honored member of the Lancaster bar.
Allen R. Bushnell was born July 18, 1833, in Hartford, Trumbull county, Ohio. His parents were farmers, and he was reared on the old farm in Ohio. At the high school in Hartford he prepared for college, entered Oberlin College, one of the leading schools of the country, and finished his studies at Hiram College, an institution specially well known because of its Alumni among the eminent public men of the country, and also because James A. Garfield at one time president of the United States, was also president of old Hiram. While a student in College, Mr. Bushnell largely paid his way by teaching school in an occasional winter or summer term. In 1854, he went to Wisconsin, taught in the vicinity of Platteville and in Dodgeville studied law in the office of S. O. Paine. Admitted to the bar in 1857, he first had his office at Platteville, and in 1860 was elected to the office of district attorney of Grant county.
His career had only well began when the outbreak of the Civil war deflected the interest of himself as it did those of hundreds of thou- sands of other young men, both north and south.
Resigning his office, in 1861, he assisted in raising the Platteville Guards, went out as 1st lieutenant, and about a year later was given his commission as captain in Company C of the Seventh Wisconsin Regiment. The regiment was enlisted for three months service, and then reenlisted for three years, and became a part of the famous Iron Brigade. With that command, Captain Bushnell distinguished him- self as a brave and honored officer, loved and respected by his men, and was in active service until resigning his commission in 1863 on account of disability.
On the election of Hon. J. T. Mills of Lancaster to the position of Circuit Judge in 1864, Captain Bushnell removed to Lancaster, took over Judge Mills' practice and for a time, again served as dis- trict attorney and in 1867 took Col. John G. Clark into partnership with him. In 1880 Mr. Watkins became a member of the firm which continued under the name of Bushnell, Clark and Watkins, until the
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withdrawal of Col. Clark in 1882. Mr. Bushnell continued as the associate of Mr. Watkins and as head of the firm until his death on March 29, 1909.
The late Mr. Bushnell was a man possessed of rare ability, as an exponent of the law, and was always known as a safe and conscienti- ous counselor and enjoyed an extensive practice in the higher courts. He gave valued public service as a member of the legislature, to which he was elected in 1872, and for four years served as United States District attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin by appointment of President Cleveland. Mr. Bushnell was elected to the United States Congress in 1890, defeating Hon. Robert M. LaFollette, and served in the 52d Congress. He was not a candidate for reelection. He was the first mayor of the city of Lancaster, assisted in the forma- tion of its municipal government, and his work is also remembered in connection with the Centennial Exposition at Lancaster. He was a man highly honored and esteemed by his fellow men, and his posi- tion in Lancaster, as long as he lived there was one of dignity and useful service.
CHARLES M. GOULD, M. D. During the period of years in which Dr. Charles M. Gould has been engaged in practice in the city of Superior, he has been known not only for his skill and assiduity as a physician, but as a tireless worker in its public movements. His professional pres- tige has been gained by none of the arts of the charlatan, nor has it been sought in special lines of practice, although his extensive education has embraced courses in various branches of medical science. He has been content to follow the beaten track of physicians educated in the highest science of the regular school, and who, loyal to its ethical code, seek rather to merit recognition by their knowledge and skill than to gain notoriety by which less meritorious practitioners frequently find a short cut to public favor. Dr. Gould was born in Bridgeport, Con- necticut, March 18, 1849, and is a son of Nathan and Mary A. (Sawyer) Gould.
Nathan Gould was born at Greenfield, Franklin county, Connecti- cut, in 1819, and as a younger man removed to the city of Bridgeport. where he was engaged in the clothing business until 1861. At that time he came west to Lake City, Minnesota, where he continued to fol- low the clothing business, but later went back to Birmingham, Con- necticut. A short time later he returned to Minnesota, locating at North- field, where his last years were spent, and there his death occurred in February, 1912, when he had reached the remarkable age of ninety-three years. He was for years a valued member of St. John's Lodge. A. F. & A. M., of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and his political support was given to Republican candidates and principles. Mr. Gould was married to Miss Mary A. Sawyer, who was born at Cornwall Bridge. Connecticut.
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and she died when their only child, Charles M., was less than three years old.
Charles M. Gould was given the benefit of excellent educational advantages in his youth, attending Hamilton University, Minnesota, and Northwestern University, Illinois, and graduating from the medical department of the latter institution with the class of 1882. At that time he established himself in a general practice at River Falls, Wisconsin, and there continued for ten years, in the meantime taking post-graduate courses at New York City. In the fall of 1892 he came to Superior, where he opened offices and engaged in a successful general practice until 1902, when he removed to Tucson, Arizona, and spent about three years in that State and California. He next visited Europe, taking clinical courses at Vienna University and the University of London, and on his return located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the special practice of dermatology and pharmacology. In 1911 he returned to Superior, where he has since carried on a large general practice, and has become known as one of this city's leading medical representatives. On April 23, 1912, he was elected health commissioner, a position he has since continued to occupy. He is a member of the Douglas County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His fraternal connections in- clude a life membership in Damascus Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Mil- waukee, and he is also affiliated with Superior Chapter, R. A. M., and Milwaukee Lodge No. 46, B. P. O. E. He is not a politician, but has taken interest in the success of the Republican party.
Dr. Gould was married to Mrs. Ida Andrews, nee Powell, a native of St. Lawrence county, New York.
JOSHUA HATHAWAY. More than a decade prior to the admission of Wisconsin to statehood Joshua Hathaway here established his home and he left a large and beneficent impress upon the annals of the territory and state with which he thus early identified himself as one of the pioneer settlers of Milwaukee. His name figures conspicuously in the history of this favored commonwealth and during the years of a long and useful life he maintained the most secure place in popular con- fidence and esteem, as he was a man of distinctive ability, impregnable integrity and high ideals .- a man well qualified to aid in the develop- ment and upbuilding of a great commonwealth. The names and deeds of such sterling pioneers merit special consideration in all publications touching the history of Wisconsin and it is gratifying to be able to present in this work a review of the career and family record of him to whom this memoir is dedicated.
Joshua Hathaway was born in Rome, Oneida county, New York, on the 9th of November, 1810, and his death occurred at his home in Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, on the 4th of July, 1863. He was a son of Joshua
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and Elizabeth (Lord) Hathaway. His father was born in Suffield, Con- necticut, August 13, 1761, and was a son of Simeon Hathaway, who immigrated in an early day to Bennington, Vermont, where he became one of the first settlers in the territory then designated as the Hamp- shire Grants. The founders of the American branch of the Hathaway family were three brothers, Ephraim, Isaac and Jacob, who immigrated from the west of England in 1670 and settled at Taunton, Massachusetts. Joshua Hathaway, Sr., father of him whose name initiates this review was a valiant soldier of the Continental forces in the war of the Revolu- tion, in which he and his six brothers fought side by side in the battle of Bennington. He was a man of specially high intellectual attain- ments, having been graduated in Yale College and having adopted the profession of law. In 1796 he removed to Fort Stanwix, New York, a place now known as Rome, his marriage to Elizabeth Lord having been solemnized in 1789. He became one of the most honored and influential citizens of Oneida county, where he served many years on the bench of the court of common pleas, besides which he held for thirty consecutive years the office of postmaster of the village in which he had established his home. He was a man of broad views and progressive ideas and was one of the earnest supporters of the projeet of constructing the Erie canal. To further the success of this important enterprise he assumed an extensive contract for construction work, and at so low a figure did he take this contract that his entire fortune was absorbed in its com- pletion. He continued his residence at Rome until his death, which occurred December 8, 1836, and was one of the most honored pioneers of the central part of the old Empire state.
Joshua Hathaway, subject of this memoir, was reared to adult age iu his native village and received excellent educational advantages in his youth. He fitted himself for the practice of law and the profession of civil engineer and as a representative of the latter vocation he entered the service of the government and was sent. in 1834, to Wisconsin, which was then a part of Michigan Territory. From Chicago he eame by means of one of the primitive lake vessels to Milwaukee, where he was met at the docks by that honored pioneer, Solomon Juneau, who was one of the few white settlers then residing in the future metropolis of Wiseon- sin. As a civil engineer Mr. Hathaway surveyed a considerable part of the territory now comprising the state of Wisconsin and he otherwise entered fully into the spirit and interests of the pioneer community. Much of his early surveying was in the southern part of the state and during the greater part of the years 1833 and 1834 he maintained his headquarters in Chicago. Upon his arrival in Milwaukee he pitched his tent upon the site of the present University building. at the corner of Broadway and Mason street, and in a more substantial structure which lie there erected he continued to reside until 1836. when he built a simple but comfortable residence on the same site. There he continued to main-
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tain his home until his death. Through his professional work and his judicious enterprise in the handling of real estate, in which he made large investments, he accumulated a substantial fortune, as gauged by the standards of his time, and he was known and valued as one of the most liberal and public-spirited citizens of Milwaukee, as well as a man whose integrity was on a parity with his exalted motives and marked ability. Sincerity and affability marked him as a true gentleman of the old school, and none knew him but to admire and esteem. Upon the organization of the territorial government, in 1836, he was the first to be honored with appointment to the office of district surveyor, a posi- tion of great responsibility in connection with the development of the embryonic state, and his commission for this post bore date of July 8, 1836. Further evidence of the unqualified confidence reposed in Mr. Hathaway was given in 1838, when he was appointed to the important office of public administrator for Milwaukee county. This exacting posi- tion, compassing in its administrative duties the functions now exercized by the judge of the probate court, were discharged by him with char- acteristic fidelity and discrimination and further expanded his beneficient influence. He identified himself prominently and extensively with real- estate speculative operation in Milwaukee and other lake counties, and was specially conspicuous in connection with the upbuilding of the vil- lage of Kewaunee.
Mr. Hathaway was a man of mature judgment and unimpeachable integrity in all of the relations of life. He was well fortified in legal knowledge and was ever ready to lend his co-operation in the furtherance of measures and enterprises projected for the general good of the com- munity. Genial and courtly, he enjoyed greatly the amenities of social life and especially the association with other men of education and cul- ture. He made a close study of the natural resources of the state of his adoption and was known as a geologist and botanist of no mean ability. His office was a place of general resort for those seeking information concerning lots, lands and taxes, and in this field he was a recognized authority. The information which he was able to give was unobtainable from any other source, and concerning his attitude in this connection the following consistent statements have been written by one familiar with his character and services: "Although he might be in the midst of the most difficult problems connected with his business, or making drafts for maps, in which he took a great delight, he always received you pleas- antly, answered your questions if he could, and if he could not you might well despair of finding what you sought, for if you left his office unenlightened you would be likely to remain so in so far as information touching Milwaukee lands or lots was concerned."
During the latter years of his life Mr. Hathaway passed the winters in Georgia, where he maintained an attractive residence and also owned a considerable amount of other property, but his interests continued
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to be centered in Milwaukee until his death, at the age of fifty-three years. He was the close friend of the leading men of the pioneer epoch in the history of the Wisconsin metropolis and his noble character gained to him the friendship of all with whom he came in contact. In politics Mr. Hathaway was a staunch and well fortified supporter of the princi- ples of the Democratic party, and his religious faith was originally that of the Protestant Episcopal church, his wife having been reared a Presbyterian. In the early days in Milwaukee the little company of those of the Episcopalian faith would assemble for worship and the prescribed ritual as provided for the layman was read by Mr. Hathaway before a regular clergyman had been procured. Mr. Hathaway was one of organizers of St. Paul's Episcopal church and became a member of its vestry, but eventually both he and his wife espoused the faith of the Catholic church, the great mother of Christendom, in which they became earnest and devout communicants of the parish of St. John's cathedral, their conversion to Catholicism having taken place about the year 1847 and all of their children having been reared in this faith. In beautiful Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, rest the remains of both Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway, whose names merit enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Wisconsin. It may be noted that on the maternal side Mr. Hathaway was a descendant of John Haynes, who was not only the first governor of Connecticut but also a colonial governor of Massa- chusetts.
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