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Dr. Bading is a member of the Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity ; the Milwaukee, the Milwaukee County and the Wisconsin State Medical soci- eties, and the American Medical Association, and is a former vice presi- dent of the American Public Health Association and Lake Michigan Sanitary Association. He belongs to the Blue Mound Country Club.
FRANK JOHNSON. The president of the First National Bank of Black River Falls in many ways represents the oldest and most substantial citizenship of Jackson county. He is the son of the man who taught the first term of school in Black River Falls; his father was prominent as a soldier, attorney and public official, and the son has likewise iden- tified himself closely with commercial and public affairs in this locality.
Frank Johnson was born at Black River Falls, April 13, 1857. His parents were Calvin R. Johuson and Lucy A. (Marsh) Johnson. Cal- vin R. Johnson was born at Foxborough, Norfolk county, Massachu- setts, May 22, 1822, died at Black River Falls, after a long and inter- esting career, January 30, 1897. In 1844 he came West to Illinois and located at Black River Falls in the spring of 1846; the following year taught the first school in Jackson county. When a young man he took a two years' whaling voyage for his health, visiting Australia and New Zealand. He was a veteran of two wars. He was with the Twelfth Regiment during the Mexican war and entered the City of Mexico with General Scott. In the Civil war he was captain of Com- pany I of the Fourteenth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He held many of the most important local offices, register of deeds, clerk of the circuit court, district attorney and member of the assem- bly. He was married February 5, 1852, to Lucy A. Marsh, who was born October 6, 1833, at London, Canada, and to whom was born six children, three of whom are living, viz .:- Frank of this sketch, Charles R. Johnson, residing at Black River Falls and Mrs. Laura Campbell, the wife of Stephen J. Campbell, at St. Paul, Minnesota.
Frank Johnson, who graduated from the Black River Falls high school in 1876, and was for one term a school teacher, has for thirty- five years been prominent in public work of the county. He began working in the office of register of deeds in 1877; in 1881 he was
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appointed clerk of the circuit court, an office he held until 1895. He then became register in probate, and on the death of Judge David Barclay, in 1900, was appointed by the governor to the vacancy of county judge, by election still fills that position, and last spring (1913) was re-elected for a further term of six years.
In business affairs, Mr. Johnson has devoted his attention to real estate, loans and abstracts. A great deal of his work has been of a confidential nature and he has represented important interests in many business transactions. He was for a time a director in the Jackson County Bank and a vice-president of the First National Bank, and has been president of the latter institution for the past six years.
In fraternal circles he has a prominent part and has a wide acquaintance throughout the state. He was secretary of the local Blue Lodge of Masonry for ten consecutive years, then eleven years as master and is a permanent member of the Masonic Grand Lodge. He is a past high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter, belongs to the Sparta Knights Templar Commandery, the Wisconsin Consistory of Scottish Rite and Tripoli Temple of the Mystic Shrine, was grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star for Wisconsin in the year 1902, and is an Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias.
JOHN GOODLAND. Residing in the city of Appleton, Wisconsin, Judge Goodland is presiding on the bench of the circuit court of the circuit comprising the Tenth Judicial District, and is one of the venerable and honored legists and jurists of the state of Wisconsin, within which he has maintained his home for more than half a century and in which he has achieved distinction in his profession and as a jurist of marked ability. His decisions on the bench have been signally fair and impartial and few of them have been reversed by the courts of higher jurisdiction. He commands inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem and his character and accomplishment, as well as his official preferment, render most consistent his representation in this history of the state which has been his home continuously, save for an interval of two and one-half years, since the days of his youth.
Judge Goodland claims the "right little, tight little isle" as the place of his nativity and is a scion of the staunchest of English stock. He was born in Somersetshire, England, on the 10th of August, 1831, and is a son of William and Abigail (Harmon) Goodland, who passed their entire lives in that section of England, where the greater part of the active career of the father was devoted to mercantile business. Judge Good- land was afforded the advantages of excellent schools in his native land. and in 1849, when eighteen years of age, he severed the home ties and set forth to establish a home and make for himself a place of indepen- dence in the United States. He located in Oneida county, New York, where he continued to reside until 1854 and where he followed various
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occupations. There, in the year 1851, his marriage was solemnized, and in 1854 he removed to Wisconsin and established his home in Wal- worth county, where he gave his attention to teaching in the public schools for the following decade, in the meanwhile having also served as justice of the peace and as the incumbent of minor township offices. In 1864 he removed with his family to the city of Chicago, where he assumed a clerical position in the freight office of the Chicago & North- western Railroad. Two and one-half years later he was appointed sta- tion agent of the same line at Appleton, Wisconsin, and this incumbency he retained for seven years. In 1874 he engaged in the insurance busi- ness at Appleton and in the meanwhile, in harmony with a long cher- ished ambition, he began the study of law. He carried forward his technical reading under effective preceptorship and in 1878 was admit- ted to the bar of his adopted state.
In the year last mentioned Judge Goodland entered into a professional partnership with Lyman E. Barnes, who later became representative of his district in the United States Congress, and this alliance continued for a period of a few years. In 1888 Judge Goodland was elected district attorney of Outagamie county, and in this office he made an excellent record, with the result that he was re-elected in 1890, thus serving two consecutive terms and greatly adding to his prestige as a skilled and resourceful trial lawyer. In the spring of 1891 further evidence of pub- lie confidence and esteem was given in his election to the bench of the circuit court. Nearly a year was to elapse before his regular assump- tion of the duties of this office but he was soon appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George H. Myers, this appointment hav- ing been made by Governor Peck. He thus served out the unexpired term of his predecessor and then continued on the bench in accordance with the provisions of his regular election. By successive re-election he has continued to preside on the bench of this circuit, and he has shown great ability in facilitating the work of his court as well as in giving rulings marked by judicial discrimination in both civil and criminal causes as well as by broad and accurate knowledge of the science of jurisprudence and a high appreciation of the dignity and responsibility of his office.
Judge Goodland is a staunch adherent of the Democratic party and has given effective service in behalf of its cause. He served three years as city assessor before his election to the office of district attorney, and he has ever shown a deep interest in all things tending to advance the civic and material welfare of the community in which he has long maintained his home and in which he has fully met the demands of the metewand of popular approbation. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
In the year 1851, in Oneida county, New York, Judge Goodland was united in marriage to Miss Caroline N. Clark, who was born and reared in that state and who was summoned to the life eternal in 1894, secure in
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the affectionate regard of all who had come within the compass of her gentle and gracious influence. Of the nine children of this union five are living, namely : Walter S., who is the present mayor of Racine, this state ; John, who is a resident of Appleton, where he is a member of the city commission; and Abbie, Mary and Edith. Mary is the wife of J. H. Woehler, of Oshkosh, and Edith is the wife of S. D. Bartlett, of Milwaukee.
JUDGE JAMES GRAHAM JENKINS. For a period of half a century the bench and bar of the state of Wisconsin had the active service and splendid ability of Judge James Graham Jenkins, who has now retired from public service, although he still maintains an office and gives prompt and regular attendance thereto in looking after his private affairs. For fifty-six years he has been an honored citizen of Mil- waukee, and few men, if indeed any, in this city today, hold a more secure place in the esteem and regard of the best people of the district than does he.
It was in 1888 that Judge Jenkins was appointed to the Federal district bench of the eastern district of Wisconsin. In 1893, when Judge Gresham entered the cabinet of President Cleveland, Judge Jenkins was appointed to the vacancy as United States circuit judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit. On the death of Judge Wm. A. Woods in 1891 he became presiding judge of the circuit court of appeals in the same circuit, comprising the states of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. On April 11, 1905, having attained the age of nearly seventy-one years and after seventeen years of admirable service in the federal judiciary, Judge Jenkins retired from office. Recently an act of Congress has abolished the federal circuit courts, so that Judge Jenkins was among the last of the judges to preside in that court.
Among associates on the bench who represented to the highest degree the ability and character of the federal bench, Judge Jenkins held a conspicuous place. His service fell during a period of vital and constructive importance in the development of federal relations, and a mass of notable cases came before the courts of the seventh circuit. Judge Jenkins was concerned in a number of cases involving great financial and industrial interests, and in which various new phases of interpretation and application of the law and constitution arose. Among other memorable cases was that of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company vs. the Northern Pacific Railway Company, et al., for the foreclosing of a trust mortgage of $140,000,000. Judge Jenkins' opinion in this suit is a remarkable condensation of broad legal knowledge and judicial acumen, and has served as a model and frequent precedent for subsequent decisions (Farmers' Loan & Trust Company vs. Northern Pacific Railway Company, 60 Fed. 803).
James Graham Jenkins was born at Saratoga Springs, New York,
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July 18, 1834, a son of Edgar and Mary Elizabeth ( Walworth) Jenkins. His father was prominent in business affairs in New York City, and his mother was a daughter of Reuben Hyde Walworth, the distinguished chancellor of the state of New York, an office that was abolished by the adoption of the constitution of 1848. Chancellor Walworth had held the office for sixteen years, and previous to that was one of the judges of the state supreme court. Judge Walworth was a descendant on the maternal side from Lord High Chancellor Hyde called Earl of Amandor of England, and on the paternal side the line goes back to Sir William Walworth, mayor of London. It was Mayor Walworth who in 1381 killed the noted rebel, Wat Tyler, during the Tyler insur- rection, the immediate cause for that act being the insolence of Tyler to King Richard II. Chancellor Walworth early gained distinction during the second war of Great Britain with the United States, when he served as adjutant on the staff of General Moore at the battle of Plattsburg. Rev. Clarence A. Walworth, a son of the Chancellor, was converted from the Presbyterian to the Episcopal church, and later to the Catholic faith, became a priest and member of the Paulist Fathers, and was noted for his eloquence and his activity in public affairs. Judge Jenkins' paternal ancestors, who were originally settled at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, moved to and founded the city of Hudson, New York, where they originated the proprietary system of settlement in that locality, buying up large tracts of land and main- taining something like a feudal relation with their colonists or tenants. Among other prominent members of the family was William Jenkins Worth, a cousin of Judge Jenkins. He gained national reputation as a major-general of the United States army in the Mexican War. The city of Fort Worth, Texas, bears his name, and his memory is further perpetuated in the statue on Madison Square, corner of Fifth avenue and Broadway, in New York City. Elisha Bacon, a great-uncle of Judge Jenkins, was for many years United States consul at Nassau, West Indies. The frequent recurrence of notable names in the ancestral lines was at least a propitious omen for the success of the career of Judge Jenkins, who had what most men consider the intestimable for- tune of coming from good stock and being endowed by nature with qualities above the ordinary.
After gaining a substantial education in the schools of New York State, Judge Jenkins began reading law with the firm of Ellis. Burrill & Davison in that city. He was admitted to the bar by examination in 1855, and for two years practiced in New York City. His residence in Milwaukee began in 1857. The Milwaukee bar of that period con- tained many talented men, but Mr. Jenkins was not long in gaining recognition and fixing his position in the front rank. During the many years of his practice his name was connected with some of the best known law firms of the city, the principal partnerships having
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been : Downer, LaDue & Jenkins; Ryan, Carpenter & Jenkins; Jenkins & Hickcox; Jenkins, Elliott & Winkler; Jenkins, Winkler, Fish & Smith; Jenkins, Winkler, Smith & Vilas.
In 1863 he first came prominently before the public through his elcetion as city attorney, an office which he held for four successive terms. Among the important matters which came up during his serv- ice was the constitutionality of the law authorizing taxation to pay soldiers' bounty (Brodhead vs. Milwaukee, 19 Wis. 624), and Judge Jenkins successfully defended the law. When William F. Vilas was elected United States senator, Mr. Jenkins succeeded him as counsel for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, and he continued as their counsel until his publie duties made his resignation incumbent. When Judge Dyer resigned from the district bench of the United States court in 1888, Judge Jenkins was appointed to that office by President Cleveland, and in 1893 he was made judge of the United States circuit court for the seventh judicial district.
As a member of the Democratic party he several times lent his name to the party ticket, though always from a sense of loyalty, since the candidacy with a minority party is always something in the nature of a personal sacrifice. In 1879 he headed his party ticket in the state for the office of governor, and in 1880 the Democratic members of the legislature paid him the compliment of their votes for United States senator. He was also a member of the delegations from Wis- consin in the national Democratic conventions which nominated Gen- eral Hancock for the presidency in 1880 and President Cleveland in 1884. In 1885 President Cleveland offered him the position of asso- ciate judge in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, an honor which he declined, though in 1888 he accepted the appointment of the same president to the judgeship of the eastern district of Wisconsin, as has been mentioned previously.
In recognition of his attainment as a lawyer, and as a judge, the University of Wisconsin in 1893 conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., an honor which the Wabash College of Indiana likewise con- ferred in 1894. Since 1896 Judge Jenkins has been dean of the Mar- quette University College of Law, and though near to eighty years of age, he is able to give close attention to his duties there and at his office. It is significant of the determination and method of the man that he appears at his office promptly every morning, where he attends to his affairs and meets his friends and business acquaintances.
. On February 16, 1913, there appeared on the Workers' Page of the Sunday Free Press of Milwaukee, a splendid article by Judge Jenkins on "The Young Man's Chances in the Law." To quote the entire article, valuable though it is as an indication of the brilliant mind of Judge Jenkins and as an expression of his honest sentiment, is impossible because of the brief space available, but it is inadvisable to
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conclude this sketch without making some brief statements on various heads which embody the sentiment and opinion of the judge. They follow : "The young lawyer of yesterday," says Judge Jenkins, "sought above all things to become eloquent, and to affect the judg- ment by appeal to the sensibilities-'boring for water,' as it was called in the parlance of that day. That time has passed with the develop- ment of great corporations. Eloquence has become silent and the busi- ness lawyer has taken the place of the orator. The lawyer of today is more of an advisor of a business course to be pursued than a defend- ant of rights already accrued.
"Again, let the young man note that the days of Daniel Webster have passed and the business lawyer has come. Large fortunes have been made by legal advisors of corporations; these men seldom or ever are heard or seen in the courts.
"The young man who courts the profession merely to obtain polit- ical preferment makes a grave mistake. For generally a good lawyer is spoiled to make a bad politician. The young lawyer must realize that the law is a jealous mistress and tolerates no divided allegiance.
"In this world there is no easy road to success. The road to suc- cess in law is hard; it means a life of severe labor and of constant study, thoroughness in the ascertainment of law and fact in every work given one to do. Poverty coupled with ambition and determina- tion are sure augurers of success.
"The law is a noble profession. Its members in all ages have dared to stand for human liberty against arbitrary power and have never faltered in defense of the weak. They have protected society against the vicious and forced the vicious to recognize the equal right of men."
Aside from his profession, Judge Jenkins is a man of broad literary culture, and his home at 284 Knapp street is a center of the finer social qualities. Judge Jenkins was married on February 16, 1870, to Miss Alice Mary Miller, whose father, Judge Andrew G. Miller, was the first judge of the United States District Court of Wisconsin.
FRANCIS HENRY LINCOLN, JR., traffic superintendent for the State of Wisconsin of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, has risen to his present high position from the ranks. To capably manage the de- partment, the duties of which are to insure the correct handling of the constantly increasing thousands of daily calls, is no light respon- sibility, and the fact that the people of Wisconsin, despite the greatly increased volume of business, are continuing to receive standard serv- ice, argues eloquently for the ability of this young product of the civil service system of the American Bell Telephone Company.
Mr. Lincoln was born December 2, 1876, at Hingham, Massachu- setts, and is in the fifth generation of his family to be born at the old
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homestead, which has been in the family name for 118 years. His par- ents were Francis Henry and Anna Frances (Baker) Lincoln, the latter of whom still resides at Hingham, while the former passed away in Boston, Massachusetts, July 7, 1911. Francis Henry Lincoln, Sr., was a son of Solomon and Mehitable (Lincoln) Lincoln, and in his father's line was descended from Samuel Lincoln, who came from Hingham, England, in 1637, while on the maternal side he was de- scended from Daniel Lincoln, who was in Hingham, Massachusetts, as early as 1644. He was also a descendant of Pilgrim Richard Warren, who came to America in the Mayflower, in 1620, and whose daughter married Robert Bartlett, who came here in the Ann, in 1623. His great- grandfather, Jesse Bates, of Hingham, was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war. Solomon Lincoln was a graduate of Brown University, class of 1822, and both of his brothers were graduates of Harvard University.
Francis Henry Lincoln, Sr., attended the schools of Hingham from 1850 nntil 1861, during the last four years at Derby Academy. He completed his preparation for Harvard College at the private Latin school of Epes Sargent Dixwell, in Boston, and entered college in 1863, graduating therefrom in 1867, and receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1871. In 1873 he was elected class secretary, an office which he continued to hold up to the time of his death. While in college he was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Harvard Glee Club, of which he was president, and the Hasty Pudding Club. In September, 1867, Mr. Lincoln entered the employ of the dry goods firm of A. Hamilton & Company, of Boston, but after the great fire of 1872 entered the office of Alexander S. Porter, a real estate and mortgage broker. In June, 1873, he opened an office of his own to conduct a general real estate and insurance business, and in this he continued to be engaged during the remainder of his life. While he was a man of extensive business interests, Mr. Lincoln had numerous other connections, both public and private. He was president and a director of the Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and agent therefor ; was president of the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Union; State vice-president of the National Association of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies; trustee and president of the Hingham school committee for three terms of three years (1879-1888), serving also as secretary and treasurer; moderator of the town meeting of Hingham from 1882 until 1907, when he declined re-election; director and president of the Hingham Ceme- tery; clerk of the First Parish of Hingham, and member of the Wom- patuck Club, being its president in 1902 and 1903. He was a mem- ber of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Bunker Hill Monument Association, of which he was treasurer, and the New England Historical
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and Genealogical Society. He belonged also to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Indians and Others of North America, the Society for Promoting Theologieal Education and the Society for Ministerial Relief, was a trustee of several charitable or- ganizations and a number of other associations, and in 1892 became a life member of the American Unitarian Association, of which he was treasurer from 1898 until the time of his death. He was practically the editor of the History of Hingham, published by the town, and which oceupied ten years in its preparation. Mr. Lineoln was married June 1, 1875, to Miss Anna Frances Baker, who was also descended from a Lineoln, although no relation to her husband's forefathers.
Francis Henry Lincoln, Jr., received his early education in Derby Academy, from whence he went to the Hingham High school, and was graduated therefrom in 1895. In 1896 he entered Stone's school, on Chestnut street, Boston, a preparatory institution, but after one year there decided that he would enter upon his career without further educational training, and in January, 1897, secured a position in the engineering department of the American Bell Telephone Company, at Boston. There he continued until January, 1905, winning steady pro- motion through ability and application to duty, and at that time came to Milwaukee, where he has since been superintendent of the traffic de- partment of the State of Wisconsin. The business has more than doubled since he assumed the duties of his present position, yet he con- tinues to efficiently handle the multitudinous duties of his office, and through his able management has been instrumental in gaining business for his company. He has an excellent business faculty, is well informed on the questions of the day, takes a lively interest in the well-being of the community, and is in all respeets an honorable and creditable rep- resentative of Milwaukee's rising young men of business. When re- leased from the cares which his responsible position involves, Mr. Lin- eolu enters into the enjoyment and contributes to the interest of the highest circles of social life. For some time he has been secretary of the Blue Mound Country Club, a director of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, a life member of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association, and a member of the Milwaukee Art Society and the Milwaukee Traffic Club. His recreation is golf.
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