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The parents of Dr. Tuteur were Isaac and Fanny (Berman) Tuteur. The father was born at Rheinpfalz in Germany in 1829 and died in 1893 at the age of sixty-three years. The mother was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1836, and is now living in her seventy-seventh year. The parents were married at Blairsville, Pennsylvania, and five of their seven children are still living. The father came to America in 1849 when twenty years of age. He crossed on a sailing vessel which was seventy-two days on the voyage, and finally landed him at New York City. The mother came to this country at the age of sixteen years. Isaac Tuteur first located at Blairsville, Pennsylvania, where he was in the lumber business for about ten years, and then moved out to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in the wholesale liquor business up to 1889 at which time he retired. He was an active member and for a
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number of years treasurer of the Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at LaCrosse, and held office in other social organizations. In politics he was a Democrat.
Dr. Tuteur married on February 21, 1892, Miss Emma Grossman, who was born in Chicago, Ill. They are the parents of one daughter Frances Pauline. Dr. Tuteur has membership in the Chicago Athletic Club, and the South Shore County Club. He is independent in politics and usually voted as a Republican up to 1912, at which time he supported President Wilson. During 1911 Dr. Tuteur with his family made an extended tour abroad, visiting Africa, Italy, France, Austria, and Ger- many.
CHARLES E. VROMAN. Holding prestige as one of the able and re- sourceful members of the bar of the city of Chicago, Mr. Vroman there shows his abiding interest in his native state by retaining active mem- bership in the Wisconsin Society, and prior to his removal to the great western metropolis he had gained secure prestige in his professional work in Wisconsin, as one of the leading members of the bar of the city of Green Bay, whence he removed to Chicago in 1900. He is a repre- sentative of one of the stanch pioneer families of Wisconsin, with whose history the name of Vroman has been worthily identified since the early territorial epoch, and thus there is all of consisteney in according to him specific recognition in this publication.
Mr. Vroman was born on a pioneer farmstead in Fitchburg town- ship, Dane county, Wisconsin, about seven miles distant from Madison. the beautiful capital city of the state, and the date of his nativity was October 5, 1846. He is a son of William and Harriet (Field) Vroman. the former a native of Madison county, New York, where he was born in the year 1818. The father continued his residence in Wisconsin from the pioneer days until his death, in 1886, and his widow now resides at Madison, this state, at the venerable age of eighty-nine years (1913). one of the noble women who have witnessed the development and up- building of the Badger commonwealth and one who has the affectionate regard of all who have eome within the benignant compass of her in- fluence. She was born in Durhamville, Oneida county. New York, in 1824 where her parents were early settlers. Of the two children of William and Harriet (Field) Vroman, the elder is he whose name initiates this review, and Josephine is the wife of Edward C. Mason, of Madison, Wisconsin.
William Vroman was reared and educated in his native state and first came to the territory of Wisconsin in the '30s. On account of the dis- turbed conditions incidental to the Black Hawk Indian war he returned to New York state, where he remained until after his marriage. In 1843 he came with his wife to Wisconsin and they established their home on an embryonic farm near Madison, in Fitchburg township. Dane county.
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He was one of the early settlers of that township, where he bravely set himself to the herculean task of reclaiming a farm from the wilderness and where he also developed a prosperous enterprise in building houses for other pioneers. He was also one of the first contractors to engage in building operations in Madison, the capital of the state. He con- tinued to reside on his farm until 1860, when he was elected treasurer of Dane county, with official headquarters in Madison, the county seat; in which place he established the family home in 1862. He gave a care- ful and effective administration of the fiscal affairs of the county and continued to serve as treasurer for four years. He established himself in the lumber business in the little capital city, with various branch yards at other points in the state, and in this field of enterprise he built up a prosperous business, to which he continued to devote his attention until the late 70's, after which he lived virtually retired until his death-an honored and influential citizen of the county in which he was a sterling pioneer. Mr. Vroman was a man of distinct individual- ity and well fortified opinions and was an active and influential factor in political affairs in his county. He originally gave his allegiance to the Whig party but was a staunch supporter of the cause of the Repub- lican party from its inception until the close of his life. Though not for- mally identified with any religious body he was a regular attendant and liberal supporter of the Congregational church, of which his widow has been a devoted member for many years.
Charles E. Vroman gained his initial experience in connection with the environment and operations of the pioneer farm on which he was born, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the district schools of the locality and period. He was enabled to continue his studies in the University of Wisconsin, in which he was a member of the class of 1868, Ph. B., and he admirably fortified himself for his chosen profession by a course in the Albany Law College, at Albany, New York, in which he was graduated in 1869, and from which he re- ceived his well earned degree of Bachelor of Laws. He forthwith re- turned to Wisconsin and was admitted to its bar, and his first practical work in his profession was performed in connection with the office of the late Hon. William F. Vilas, of Madison, long one of the most distin- guished lawyers and influential citizens of the state. After being thus associated with Senator Vilas for a few months Mr. Vroman became deputy clerk of the circuit court for that county, and of this office he continued the incumbent until the spring of 1870, when he removed to Green Bay, Wisconsin, the judicial center of Brown county, where he established himself in the active practice of his profession and became associated with Linneus Sale, under the firm name of Vroman & Sale. Through ability, discrimination, close application and integrity of pur- pose Mr. Vroman soon gained a prominent position at the bar of that section of the state and for a period of more than a quarter of a century
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was numbered among the leading lawyers of Green Bay, with a represen- tative clientage and with a business that involved his appearance in connection with much important litigation. In 1890, with matured powers and the distinctive precedence given by success, he formed another professional alliance, under the title of Green, Vroman, Fair- child, North & Parker, and of this representative law firm he continued a member for a decade, at the expiration of which, on the 1st of May, 1900, he withdrew from partnership to establish his home in Chicago, in which great metropolis he has found a broad and inviting field for his professional endeavors and in which he has achieved definite success and prestige. Upon removing to Chicago he became a member of the law firm of Flower, Vroman & Musgrave, and on the 15th of November, 1900, he was made assistant general solicitor for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company, with headquarters in Chicago. To the duties of this important position he gave the major part of his time and atten- tion until April 1, 1910, when he resumed the general practice of his profession, in partnership with his son William P., and Fayette S. Munro, and under the firm name of Vroman, Munro & Vroman. This effective alliance continued until the death of William P. Vroman in 1911, and since that time the large and representative law business has been continued under the title of Vroman & Munro.
In politics Mr. Vroman has ever been a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party and while a resident of his native state he was influential in public affairs. He served several terms as city attorney of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and was for several years the incumbent of the office of district attorney of Brown county. At Green Bay he still maintains his affiliation with Washington Lodge, No. 23, Free & Accepted Masons, and Green Bay Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. At Madison, the capital of the state, he is a member of the University Club and he is actively identified with the Wisconsin State Historical Society, as well as the American Historical Associa- tion. He takes a deep interest in and is a valued member of the Wis- consin Society of Chicago, and in his home city is identified also with the Union League Club, the University Club, and the City Club.
At the home of the bride's parents, in Sun Prairie, Dane county, Wisconsin, on the 11th of May, 1871, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Vroman to Miss Emma R. Phillips, who was born and reared in that county and who likewise is a representative of a pioneer family of Wisconsin. Of the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Vroman the first, a daughter, died in infancy. William P., who died in 1911, at the age of thirty-two years, was at the time associated with his father in the practice of law, as previously noted, and his career was cut short in the very prime of his strong and noble manhood, and to the severe grief of a host of devoted friends and admirers. He was graduated in the law department of the University of Wisconsin as a member of the class of Vol. V-4
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1901, and had gained secure vantage ground in his chosen profession when his death occurred, this being the severest of blows to his devoted parents. Jolin C., the surviving son, completed his technical education in the University of Wisconsin and is now successfully engaged in the work of his profession of civil and mechanical engineer, with head- quarters in Chicago, where he still remains at the parental home.
EDWARD YOCKEY. The professional and executive powers of Mr. Yockey have been effectually tested and found ample through his service in his present official position, that of district attorney of Milwaukee county, and he is numbered among the essentially representative mem- bers of the bar of his native state. His devotion to his profession has been manifest alike in close application, deep appreciation of its re- sponsibilities and dignity, and careful observance of its unwritten eth- ical code, so that he naturally commands the unequivocal confidence and esteem of his confreres at the bar.
Mr. Yockey is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of Wis- consin, where his paternal grandparents established their home at an early period in the history of this favored commonwealth. They immi- grated to Wisconsin from the state of New York and the family geneal- ogy indicates long and worthy connection with the annals of American history. The district attorney of Milwaukee county was born in Dodge county, this state, on the 16th of July, 1879, and is a son of William H. and Ella (McHugh) Yockey, the former of whom was born in Mil- waukee, on the 2d of May, 1853, and the latter of whom was born at Fond du Lac, this state, on the 12th of October, 1850. William H. Yockey is a well known and valued locomotive engineer in the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, in the service of which corporation he has been retained for more than thirty-five years, and he is a man well known and highly esteemed in the state that long repre- sented his home. He was graduated in the engineering department of Syracuse University, at Syracuse, New York, and in the earlier period of his career he was identified with important railroad construction work, including the building of the line between Ishpeming and Esca- naba, Michigan. He and his wife now reside in the city of Escanaba, Michigan, and he is one of its popular and public-spirited citizens. His father, the late Nicholas Yockey, served as an officer in the Prussian army and participated in the Franco-Prussian war. Mrs. Ella (Mc- Hugh) Yockey is a daughter of the late Patrick McHugh, who became one of the honored and influential citizens of Fond du Lac county, and who was one of the contractors who built the air line division of the Northwestern 'Railroad between Fond du Lac and Milwaukee, besides which he served as sergeant of the Fond du Lac Volunteers and repre- sented Wisconsin as a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war; he enlisted on the 30th of August, 1862, in Company E. Seventeenth
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Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, was wounded in battle on the 19th of May, 1863, and continued in service until the close of the war, having been mustered out on the 2d of June, 1865.
Edward Yockey is indebted to the public schools for his early edu- cational discipline and was graduated in the high school as Escanaba, Michigan, as a member of the class of 1894, he having been about two years of age at the time when the family home was established in that city. He furthered his academic education by an effective course in the Ohio Institute at Dayton, in which he was graduated in 1896. In preparation for his chosen profession he entered the law department of the Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana, and in this institu- tion he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899 and with the well earned degree. Thus admirably fortified for the vocation of his choice, Mr. Yockey established his residence in Milwaukee, in which city he has since been engaged in the active and successful practice of his profession, his ability and sterling character having gained for him pres- tige of no equivocal order. He built up a substantial and representa- tive private practice and to the same he continued to give his attention until his election to his present responsible office of district attorney of Milwaukee county, in November, 1912. He assumed the duties of office on the 6th of January, 1913, for the regular term of two years, and his administration has already served as ample justification of the popular support which gave to him this preferment.
Mr. Yockey has proved a veritable independent in the Wisconsin camp of the Republican party and has given yeoman service in support of the party cause. He has shown marked discrimination and ability in the manoeuvering of political forces and served from 1910 to 1912, inclusive, as chairman of the Republican county committee of Milwaukee county, as well as chairman of the party's city committee in Milwaukee. He was manager of the non-partisan campaign which resulted in the election of Milwaukee's present mayor, G. A. Bading, and it was largely due to his efforts that the non-partisan fusion forees was effected in this municipal campaign. From 1908 to 1910 Mr. Yockey was a member of the Republican State Central Committee for the Fourth congressional district of the state. He is a valued member of the Milwaukee county Bar Association and is also identified with the Wisconsin Bar Associa- tion. His name is found enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in the Wisconsin metropolis and this fact, it may be consistently said, does not in the least militate against his popularity in social circles. He finds his chief recreation in fishing and is an enthusiastic disciple of the piscatorial art.
NELSON NORMAN LAMPERT, vice president of the Fort Dearborn National Bank of Chicago is a native of Wisconsin, and has had a long and successful career as a Chicago banker. On the organization of the Wisconsin Society of Chicago he was honored with election as its
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first treasurer. Mr. Lampert was born at Newton in Vernon county, Wisconsin, March 19, 1872. His parents were Bartholomew and Mary (Stork) Lampert. The father, who was born at West Bend, in Wash- ington county, Wisconsin, died at the age of sixty-two. The mother was also born at West Bend and is still living. On both sides the family were established in Wisconsin during the pioneer era. The Chicago banker was the oldest of six children, four of whom are liv- ing. Bartholomew Lampert became prominent in the Methodist min- istry, having been educated in a theological seminary in Ohio. He held various charges in Wisconsin and Illinois and was a presiding elder in the Chicago district at the time of his death. In politics he was always a Republican.
Nelson Norman Lampert eame to Chicago with his parents at the age of fourteen and was graduated from the Garfield grammar school. In May, 1887, when a little more than fifteen years of age, he entered the service of the Fort Dearborn National Bank as a messenger boy. By earnest and faithful work he was promoted through all the grades leading up to the vice presidency, to which office he was elected in 1904, when thirty-two years of age.
Mr. Lampert is a prominent figure in Chicago Masonic Circles. He is past master of Garden City Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; past thrice illus- trious master of Tyrian Council R. & S. M .; past commander of Apollo Commandery No. 1 K. T., and in the Scottish Rite is a member of Oriental Consistory and an honorary thirty-third degree Mason. In December, 1907, he was unanimously elected illustrious potentate of Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
Mr. Lampert is a member of the Banker's Club; of the Mid-Day Club; the Hamilton Club; the Glen View Golf Club; the Chicago Ath- letie Association, of which he has served as treasurer; the Columbia Yacht Club; the Union League Club; the South Shore Country Club. His polities is Republiean.
On June 28, 1910, Mr. Lampert married Miss Nettie Tuohy, who was born at Woodstock, In MeHenry county, Illinois.
ROBERT ROM. In Milwaukee sinee pioneer times the Rom family have been manufacturers and business men, producers not spenders of wealth, making their enterprise a factor in community prosperity; have been notable for normal yet spirited participation in the social and civic affairs of their home eity ; and all in all have been the sort of men and women whose lives eount for most in the substantial integrity of a city or state.
The founder of the family in Milwaukee was the late Andrew Rom. It is not overstatement to say that his career was a distinctive con- tribution to the industrial and civie welfare of this city. Andrew Rom, whose death occurred in Milwaukee September 14, 1897, was one of the
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founders of Milwaukee industry in the packing business, and had lived in Milwaukee since 1849. He was seventy-eight years, nine months, and twenty-three days of age when his death occured. He was born in Regansburg, Bavaria, November 22, 1818. He left his native land dur- ing the political trouble that caused the departure of so many other Germans who contended for liberty in the Fatherland and who subse- quently became estimable citizens in America. Immediately upon his arrival in Milwaukee in 1849 Mr. Rom established a packing plant at State and Third Streets, and retired in 1876 after a successful career. He was the first butcher in Milwaukee to employ steam in the manu- facture of sausage. He was an associate of Cudahy, Plankinton, Lay- ton and Armour. The late Mr. Rom was beyond military age when the Civil war started, but gave his moral support to the war for the preservation of the Union. He was a man of deep patriotie feelings, though it was always difficult even for his family to secure any expression of opinion or account of his life in the old country, and it appeared that he always regretted the necessity of having to leave Germany in the manner he did. Mr. Rom belonged to the West Side Old Settlers Club. was a Mason, being one of the charter members of Kilbourn Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M., and also belonged to the old Turnverein of Milwaukee. He belonged to Camp No. 2 of the Order of the Druids, under whose au- spices his funeral was held.
The late Andrew Rom was married in Milwaukee in 1852 to Miss Marie Glaser of Milwaukee. They had been married forty-five years at the time of his death, and she is still living in Milwaukee, having passed her eighty-ninth birthday on March 12, 1913. She was born in Saxony. Germany, March 12, 1824, and came across the ocean in a sailing vessel, the late Mrs. Frederick Mayer, another pioneer woman of Milwaukee. having been a fellow passenger on the same boat. The ship was ninety days en route. Andrew Rom and wife were the parents of seven children, two of whom are deceased and the five now living are as follows: Mrs. Emma Hertting, who is the wife of Hugo Hertting of Milwaukee ; Robert Rom, whose career is sketched in following paragraphs: Bertha, wife of Charles W. Nebel of Madison; Rosalie, wife of Walter Buschmann of Milwaukee; and Emil, treasurer of the Robert Rom Company. All the children were born at the old home in Milwaukee at 276 Third Street and received their education in this city.
Robert Rom, who was born May 9, 1856, has proved a worthy sue- cessor of his father in business enterprise, being president of the Robert Rom Company, one of the largest concerns of the state for plumbers,' steam and gasfitters' supplies. Mr. Rom received his early education in the Second Ward School and the old German-English Academy, and also the West Side School, from which he was graduated with the class of May, 1870. On the very next day following his graduation he began work for the late M. M. Leahy, who was the pioneer in Milwaukee in the
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business in which Robert Rom is chiefly engaged at the present time. The Leahy establishment was at Broadway and Huron Streets. Mr. Leahy sold out in 1871 to the Hoffman & Billings Manufacturing Company, and Robert Rom went along with the rest of the plant to the new concern. He continued there until 1878, when he went to the northern part of the state and took up eighty acres of land in the town of Butternut, Ashland county. His settlement there at the time, and under pioneer conditions, gave him acquaintance with the Hon. Sam Fifield of Ashland, who is one of the board of editors of this history of the state. In those days all the German settlers in that vicinity were very much opposed to Fifield. During the three years of his residence in Ashland county, Mr. Rom held several minor offices in the township, and also took the national census in 1880. Returning to Milwaukee in 1881, he resumed employ- ment with Hoffman & Billings Manufacturing Company, and was with them until 1888. On March 9, 1889, Mr. Rom engaged in business for himself, in a shop at 130 Second Street, just below the old Plankinton House on Second Street. He set up as a jobber in plumbers' supplies under the firm of Robert Rom & Company, and thus originated his busi- ness which has been conducted under that name for twenty-four years.
In 1892 the company was incorporated as the Robert Rom Company, and continued in its original location until 1904 when they bought the present grounds at 1023-1101 St. Paul Avenue. The trade of this com- pany extends over all the surrounding states, and their business has been very successful. Mr. Rom is president, Mr. J. F. Wulf is vice president, Mr. C. S. Waite is secretary, and Emil Rom is treasurer. Mr. Rom is also president of the Steam Appliance Company, located at 245-255 Oregon Street, and manufacturers of high grade steam specialties, in- cluding various kinds of valves, oil separators, and a number of special appliances extensively used by the general trade.
Mr. Rom has been a Democrat in National politics, though he has not been rigid in his adherence to any one political party or creed. He has membership in the old Horicon Shooting Club, and the Merchants & Manufacturers Association of Milwaukee. On November 14, 1880, in Butternut township, Ashland county, Mr. Rom married Miss Bertha Tank, a daughter of August Tank and wife, who were pioneer settlers in that section of the state and both now deceased. Mrs. Rom was born in Germany and was six years of age when her parents came to Amer- cia. She received her education in Milwaukee, where the family lived previous to their removal into northern Wisconsin. Her parents died and are buried in Ashland county. Mr. and Mrs. Rom have three sons : Andrew J., at home; Walter B., secretary-treasurer of the Steam Ap- pliance Company ; Daniel W., manager of the stock department of the Robert Rom Company. All the sons were born and educated in Mil- waukee, and the two youngest are graduates of St. Johns Military School at Delafield. The home of Mr. Rom and family is at Wauwatosa.
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