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and outfit of the company was gradually built up and became unique throughout the Army.
On July 1, 1899, he was appointed major and assistant adjutant- general and on May 26, 1896, lieutenant-colonel in this Corps. To this work he brought the results of his twenty-three years' meditations and study and did much to initiate movements to emancipate the army from mental and physical stagnation.
On May 27, 1898, after the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers and in June com- manded the third expedition to Manila. Upon arrival he was placed in command of the First Brigade, First Division Eighth Army Corps and at the capture of Manila, August 13, 1898, handled this brigade most handsomely throughout a smart engagement with the Spaniards and was appointed major-general of volunteers for this service and assigned to the command of the Second Division, Eighth Army Corps, or a strength of approximately 20,000 men.
On February 4, 1899, he repulsed the insurgent attack on the north and east front of Manila, and February 10, 1899, captured Calaocan after a smart action. February 10 to November 19 he commanded the American forces in the advance against the successive capitols of the insurgent government-Malalos, Tarlac and San Fernando. During this period he commanded on the field in fifteen battles as follows: Tallisjon, Polo Marilac, Byas, Guiguinto, Malalos, Passage of the Bagbag, Passage of the Rio Grande, Santo Thomas, San Fernando, Bacolor, Calumpit, Angeles Tarlac, Banban, and Dagupan.
The result of these successive engagements was to scatter the insur- gent army and thereafter resistance to American arms was reduced to a very trying guerilla warfare that probably demanded more troops than a more orthodox campaign. Compelling ability brought about his ap- pointment May 4, 1900, as Governor-General of the Philippines. From this date until July 4, 1901, General MacArthur directed the field opera- tions of 70,000 men, the largest force of troops assembled under one com- mand since the Civil war. The result of his labor was the almost com- plete pacification of the Philippine Islands, including the capture of Aguinaldo, so that on July 4, 1901, a civil government for the island was established.
On January 2, 1900, General MacArthur was appointed brigadier general, U. S. Army, and on February 5, 1901, major general.
After relinquishing command in the Philippines he exercised various commands in the United States except for a period during the Russo- Japanese war when he was with the Japanese Army as an observer, and for a period after this when he made an extensive tour of eastern Asia. A keen observer of men and events, his various services in the East made him, by all odds, the best informed man in the United States on affairs in that part of the world, and he was always firmly of
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the opinion that the acquisition of the Philippines by the United States was to play a part in changing the course of events in that field that is little understood at present.
September 5, 1906, he was appointed Lieutenant-General, United States Army, being the twelfth officer from Washington in the history of the Army to attain that rank, and also the last, as the office expired with him. He retired from active duty after more than 47 years' ser- vice on June 2, 1909.
In spite of the fact that his active career was at an end, fortune dealt kindly with the old soldier in that he was to die among his old comrades in arms. The Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee gave a dinner to the members of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin Volunteer In- fantry still living. The date selected was September 5, 1912, just fifty years to the day since the regiment entrained for the front. Their old colonel, now holding the highest rank in the army, was once more to address them. About a hundred of the regiment gathered in Milwaukee from various parts of the Union that they helped to save. The Lieu- tenant-General though seriously indisposed was not willing to forego the pleasure of again saluting his old comrades, and by a great effort attended. Inspired by the occasion they were again young; their young colonel lead them through march, battle and bivonae and they were on the lines of Peach Tree Creek with Hood's desperate attack breaking against them when the Angel of Death summoned the speaker as he uttered the words "Your indomitable courage." With the regiment kneeling in prayer about him, he entered the paths that lead to immor- tality and his comrades, once again old men, covered all that was mortal . of their "Boy Colonel" with the flag he loved and served so well, and silently left the banquet hall.
General MacArthur married Mary Pinckney Hardy of Norfolk, Vir- ginia, in 1875. He is survived by his widow and two sons, Lieutenant- Commander Arthur MacArthur, U. S. Navy, and Captain Douglas Mac- Arthur, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army.
FRANCIS X. BODEN. A popular and representative member of the bar of the Wisconsin metropolis, where he is senior member of the law firm of Boden & Beuscher, with offices in suite 503-4 Majestic building, Mr. Boden is recognized as a young man of specially high academic and professional attainments, and in the work of his chosen calling his success has been on a parity with his ability, and while his personal popularity gives emphatic evidence of his possession of those sterling qualities that ever beget objective confidence and esteem. Further in- terest attaches to his career by reason of the fact that he is a native of Wisconsin and a scion of one of the honored families of Milwaukee county, within whose gracious borders he has maintained his home from the time of his birth.
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Francis Xavier Boden was born in Lake township, Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, on the 30th of January, 1876, and is a son of James and Sarah (Furey) Boden, who are now living, the father having devoted the major part of his active life to the vocation of farming and being a man of inviolable integrity and marked individuality,-a citizen well worthy of the high regard in which he is uniformly held in the community that has represented his home for many years, both he and his wife being zealous communicants of the Catholic church.
Under the careful direction of his devoted mother, a woman of exceptional intellectuality, Francis X. Boden gained his early edu- cational discipline, and he entered Marquette College, in Milwaukee, an institution now known as Marquette University. He was gradu- ated as a member of the class of 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and soon afterward he entered upon effective post graduate study in Georgetown University, District of Columbia. In the de- partment of arts and sciences of this celebrated institution he received the degree of Master of Arts, in 1898, and in the following year the law department of the same university conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1900 he received from Georgetown Univer- sity the further degrees of Master of Laws and Doctor of Philosophy. In this university he was president of his class during his senior year.
In 1900, Mr. Boden opened an office and initiated the practice of his profession in Milwaukee, and in the following year he formed a professional alliance with Jacob P. Beuscher, with whom he has since been associated under the firm name of Boden & Beuscher, the firm . controlling a substantial general practice and holding high standing at the bar of the county and state, as both of the interested principals are lawyers of excellent ability and citizens of utmost loyalty and pub- lic spirit.
Mr. Boden has been an active and effective worker in behalf of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and since 1902 he has been a delegate to every convention of the party contingent in the city and county of Milwaukee, as well as to every state convention of Wisconsin Republicans. In 1904 he was a member of the "Stal- wart" branch of the Republican state central committee. He is a communicant of the Catholic church. The name of Mr. Boden still remains enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors of the Wisconsin metropolis.
DAVID STUART ROSE. In the city of Milwaukee not to know its for- mer mayor, David S. Rose, is to argue oneself unknown. He is a man of achievement, has had the initiative and constructive power to do large things and do them well. His name and fame have given dis- tinction and definite honor to his native state. He is an able lawyer. He is a loyal and progressive citizen. He is a man of impregnable
Davede Rose
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integrity and has never lacked in individual independence of thought and action, never failed to show the courage of his convictions. His services have gone on record as one of the very best of the mayors who have served the Wisconsin metropolis, and as executive head of the municipal government he fearlessly advocated and carried through the policies which he believed to be right, loyal to his trust and to the people but unmoved by the adverse criticism or hostile actions of opposing forces that he believed to be animated by false ideas or untenable civic policies. He is one of the men who have most aided in the development of the Greater Milwaukee, is one of the repre- sentative members of the bar of his native state, and is a citizen whose character and services well entitle him to lasting honor, so that his- torie consistency demands that he be accorded definite recognition in this publication, though the preseribed limits of such personal sketches are such that it will be impossible to enter fully into the details of his earnest and fruitful career.
Mr. Rose was born at Darlington, the judicial center of Lafayette county, Wisconsin, on the 30th of June, 1856, and is a son of James R. and Phoebe A. (Budlong) Rose, the former of Scotch and the latter of German lineage. James R. Rose was born in Jefferson county, New York, and gained the greater part of his academic and profes- sional education in the city of Albany, New York, where he admir- ably fortified himself in the science of jurisprudence and was duly admitted to the bar. In 1852 he eame to the west and established his home at Darlington, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he became associated with the late Judge Montgomery M. Cothren. He became one of the foremost members of the bar of that section of the state and was specially prominent and influential in political and other public affairs, as one of the lead- ing figures in the Wisconsin councils of the Democratic party. He was a man large of mind and large of heart, was a citizen of utmost loyalty and public spirit and he wielded influence of definite value in connection with the social and material development and progress of the state of his adoption. He was one of the honored pioneer citi- zens of Wisconsin at the time of his death, which oceurred at Darling- ton, September 6, 1890, his cherished and devoted wife, who was graduated in the normal school at Albany, New York, and whose mar- riage to Mr. Rose was solemnized shortly after she came with her parents to Wiseonsin, having been summoned to the life eternal in the year 1907.
In the public schools of his native village David S. Rose acquired his preliminary educational discipline, and that he early manifested marked proficiency as a student is evidenced by the fact that he was there graduated in the high school when a lad of only fourteen years. The following three years Mr. Rose passed in a printing office in
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Darlington, where he gained familiarity with the mysteries of the "art preservative of all arts," but at the age of seventeen years he decided to prepare himself for the legal profession. He accordingly began reading law under the preceptorship of the firm of Cothren & Rose, of which his father was the junior member, and in the mean- while he added to his financial resources by teaching school during the winter terms. He was admitted to the bar on the 30th of June, 1876, and his novitiate in the practice of his profession was served at Belmont, Lafayette county, where he remained one year. He then returned to Darlington, where he formed a professional partnership with his father, under the title of J. R. & D. S. Rose. This mutually pleasing and effective alliance continued until 1886, when David S., the son of an honored father to whom he attributes much of his suc- cess, removed to Milwaukee, where he established himself in practice and soon proved himself a resourceful, vigorous and versatile lawyer, with the result that he gained a substantial clientage within the two years of his initial practice in an individual way. At the expiration of this period he formed a partnership with Archibald W. Bell, with whom he was associated in practice, under the firm name of Rose & Bell, for the ensuing four years. He then resumed his individual practice and he developed the same to large and representative pro- portions, his labors thus continuing until he was accorded distinctive recognition and appreciative honor in being elected mayor of the city, in 1898. In this sketch it is unnecessary to enter manifold data con- cerning his administration as chief executive of the municipal gov- ernment during this and succeeding terms, but the most effective voncher for the efficiency of his service and the popular verdict placed upon him is that furnished by the fact that he was re-elected mayor m 1900, 1902 and 1904. His service was thus consecutive during these intervening years and then came an interregnum of two years, after which insistent popular demands again placed him in the office of mayor, in 1908. He has the distinction of having served a greater number of terms as mayor of Milwaukee than has any other person in the entire history of the city, and his aggressive, independent. progressive and admirably effective policies not only redounded greatly to the benefit of Milwaukee and all classes of citizens but also gained to him a national reputation. He is essentially a distinct and forceful personality, and such a man can not be obscured in the devious workings of municipal affairs but must needs justify his title of exec- utive. The Wisconsin metropolis was in every way advanced and prospered under the able and masterful regime of Mayor Rose, and its municipal history shall ever bear its record of appreciation and honor, the while the general or popular estimate grows higher in appreciation as the years pass and give perspective to his work and his distinguished achievement.
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At the expiration of his fourth term as mayor of Milwaukee Mr. Rose went to Tucson, Arizona, to give his personal supervision to important mining interests which he still retains in that state, these interests being principally represented in the Twin Buttes Mining & Smelting Company, which is capitalized at two million dollars, owns thirteen hundred acres of land, with sixty-one mining claims, and which has incidentally built more than thirty-one miles of railroad, incidental to the development of its properties.
Mr. Rose has long held precedence as one of the staunchest and most influential representatives of the Democratic party in his native state, and he has been delegate of many of its conventions in Wiscon- sin, including nearly every county convention in Lafayette county from the time of his attaining to his legal majority until his removal to Milwaukee, where he has given virtually the same service. He was a delegate to the Democratie national conventions of 1884, 1900 and 1904. He served two terms as mayor of Darlington, his native place. 1882-4; was elected county judge of Lafayette county in 1885, a posi- tion which he resigned in 1888; was the Democratic nominee for gov- ernor of Wisconsin in 1902, when he had the distinction of reducing the Republican majority in the state by about 60,000 votes; and he has also been the nominee of his party for representative in congress. He is inflexible in his adherence to the principles of the Democratic party and has ever been found ready to take his place in its ranks or as a leader in its manoeuvers when exigencies demand such service.
In his legal practice Mr. Rose has been concerned with many important litigations and has won brilliant victories. Among the more notable eases in which he has appeared may be mentioned that of the State of Wisconsin versus Meighan, et al., which attracted wide- spread attention, by reason of the fact that a special plea of insanity was interposed in behalf of the seven defendants, who were tried together. They were all found to be insane at the time when the crime, homicide, was committed, and at the trial three of the number were adjudged insane. The circumstances leading up to the homicide are here briefly outlined: In the autumn of 1890 a farmer named Meighan was returning from Darlington to his home, on a wagon loaded with lumber, and he was accompanied by his hired man, named Sieboldt. They became involved in a quarrel and Sieboldt, with an iron wrench, pounded out the brains of his employer. He was arrested within a few hours after the tragedy and, because of threatened lynching, was removed to Monroe, Green county, for safe keeping. Later, when it was deemed that the danger of lynching had passed, he was returned to Darlington for his preliminary examination. IIe was placed in the county jail and a mob immediately formed, broke into the jail and took Sieboldt out to the corner of the public square, where he was hanged to a tree. Shortly afterward a grand jury was
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empaneled and seven indictments were returned, charging as many persons, residents of Lafayette county, with homicide by lynching. Strong legal talent was arrayed in the prosecution that ensued and the defense was conducted by Mr. Rose. The trial occupied twenty- nine days and resulted as stated above. The significant feature lay in the fact that the case of insanity was made so strong for four of the defendants that the state's experts answered the hypothetical ques- tions in their favor.
Another homicide case that attracted great interest, in 1896, was that of the State versus Robert Luscombe, and this was tried in the criminal court of Milwaukee county. The parties involved belonged to well known families and the defendant, Robert Luscombe, although young, had been city attorney of Milwaukee. He killed his brother- in-law, Emil Sanger, by shooting him with a shotgun. The trial con- sumed several weeks and Mr. Rose was one of the leading attorneys for the defense. Luscombe was acquitted, upon the merits of the case, within ten minutes after the jury retired.
Mr. Rose appeared also as attorney for Major Peter J. Somers in the trial for impeachment brought by Garrett Dunek against that official, and here Mr. Rose again won a decisive victory. He partici- pated in one of the most noteworthy election contests that ever occurred in Wisconsin, that of John Fetzer against Edward Scofield, who was later governor of the state. This contest, in 1891, was rela- tive to a seat in the state senate. Election frauds were charged and application was made to the supreme court for a writ of quo warranto. This was issued and the case was tried in the circuit court in Mari- nette county, the trial resulting in a disagreement on the part of the jury, which divided on political party lines. The contest was then taken to the senate, where Mr. Scofield was unseated and the office given to Mr. Fetzer.
In 1910 Mr. Rose left Milwaukee and for. a period of more than two years thereafter he devoted virtually his entire time and atten- tion to traveling and delivering speeches on the prohibition question, as a representative of the Anti-prohibition League and under the auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers and Business Men, the headquarters of which are in Chicago. This notable cam- paign on the part of Mr. Rose covered two hundred and sixteen cities and extended from coast to coast. The interesting encounters which he had with opposing forces would afford material for a large volume, and he defended the cause, in which he firmly believes, with characteristic spirit, vigor and cogency of argument. After this campaign he opened a law office in the city of San Francisco, Cali- fornia, where he remained about one year and where he was associated in practice with John B. Clayberg, formerly of Montana and one of the foremost mining lawyers of the west. The firm of Clayberg &
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Rose was dissolved in the spring of 1913, and in April of that year Mr. Rose resumed the practice of law in Milwaukee, where he has well appointed offices in suite 1344-5 Wells building. Mr. Rose is affiliated with the Milwaukee and San Francisco bar associations, and holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks.
At Paw Paw, Michigan, on the 10th of November, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rose to Miss Rosemary Glosz, of New York city. She was born in the city of Boston, of Hungarian par- entage, and her parents returned to their native land when she was but two years of age. Mrs. Rose is a gracious woman of distinctive culture and has achieved high reputation in the domain of musical interpretation, besides which she speaks five languages, in which she also sings, as does she also in a sixth, the Latin. Worthy of reproduc- tion in this connection is the following extract from the Milwaukee Sentinel of Sunday, May 18, 1913:
"Mr. and Mrs. David S. Rose are now settled in their apartment in the Benjamin apartment house, Prospect avenue and Kane place. Mrs. Rose will be a valuable acquisition to the musical circles of Milwaukee. She possesses a rare dramatic soprano voice, splendidly cultivated, and is a finished musician of international fame. She was educated at St. Joseph's convent at Flushing, Long Island, but obtained her musical education abroad, under tutorship of Sbriglia, one of the greatest voice educators of the world. She speaks five and sings in six languages, and her repertoire embraces the arias from more than fifty operas, including many of the classics. Not only is she a leading vocalist but she is also an accomplished pianist. While Mrs. Rose has had an eventful and successful career in profes- sional work in grand opera and opera comique in this country and in Europe, she has retired from the stage, but in the fall and winter she will be heard in concert in the middle west, under the manage- ment of one of the best known managers. She is lavish in her praise of Milwaukee and evidently has imbibed much of the enthusiasm of her husband for 'our city beautiful.'"
WALTER J. FROST. The thriving little city of Kenosha has its full quota of industrial enterprises of broad scope and importance, and prominent among the same is that conducted by The Frost Manufac- turing Company, of which the executive head is he whose name intro- duces this paragraph.
Walter J. Frost was born in the city of Waterbury, Connecticut, on the 25th of April, 1866, and is a son of Charles N. and Susan (Coe) Frost, both representatives of staunch old families of New England. Charles N. Frost was born at Waterbury, Connecticut, on the 14th of July, 1843, and died February 27th, 1910, at Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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He was an expert in the manufacture of Sheet Brass having been en- gaged in this business since boyhood. In 1886 when the Chicago Brass Company (now the American Brass Company) was organized at Ken- osha, he was selected to take charge of the works and served in the capacity of general superintendent for the following thirteen years, at which time he retired from active business. In the meantime, he had effected the organization of The Badger Brass Manufacturing Company, of which he served as president until 1902 when a re-organization took place and the Frost interests withdrew to organize The Frost Manu- facturing Company. He was president of the new company until his death in 1910, although not active in its management, much of his time being spent in California. Mr. Frost was a man of impregnable in- tegrity, thorough and painstaking in all affairs of business, and he not only held precedence as one of the strong and resourceful men of affairs in Kenosha, but also as a citizen of broad publie spirit and one well en- titled to the unqualified confidence and esteem in which he was uni- formly held. He was a Republican in politics and his religious faith was that of the Baptist church, of which his widow, who still resides in Kenosha, has likewise been a devoted member for many years.
Walter J. Frost, whose name initiates this review came to Kenosha in 1889 where he remained until 1892 in which year he moved to Chi- cago, returning in 1897 to assist his father in the organization of The Badger Brass Manufacturing Company, of which he was elected to the office of secretary. He assumed the general management of The Frost Manufacturing Company upon its organization, serving as secre- tary and treasurer until the death of his father in 1910 when he was made president and treasurer of the Company, an incumbency which he has since retained.
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