Brown County, Wisconsin - The whole text, 1913 (part 4 of 14)

Stanley Milzarck

Stanley Milzarck, living on section 23 in Suamico township, is the proprietor of a hotel at Big Suamico and is meeting with successs in its conduct. His birth occurred in German Poland on the 29th of December, 1879, his parents being Albert and Rosie Milzarck, natives of Germany. The father, who was born in 1849 ancl worked as a laborer in his native land, emigrated to the United States in 1880, making his way to Chicago. Illinois, where he remained for three years. In 1883 he came to Brown county, Wisconsin, purchasing and locating on a tract of land in Suamico township. At the present time he owns three hundred and twenty acres, one hundred of which are under cultivation, the remainder being covered with brush and second growth timber. Both he and his wife still reside in Suamico township and are well known and highly esteemed throughout the community in which they have made their home for about three decades. Airs. Rosie Milzarck is now sixty years of age. her birth having occurred in 1852. She is the mother of twelve children, as follows: John, Stella, Stanley, George, Leo. Joseph. Eva, Mary, Adam, Carrie, Walter and Frank.

Stanley Milzarck attended school in Suamico township until a youth of fourteen and subsequently worked for his father until twenty-two vears of age. During the following five years he was in the service of the rail- road company and afterward spent three years in concrete work. In 1908 he purchased a farm of eighty acres in Suamico township and turned his attention to general agricultural pursuits. In 1912 he opened a hotel at Big Suamico and is now conducting the same with gratifying success, neglecting nothing that can add to the comfort of his guests and keeping his hostelry both attractive and up-to-date.

On the 16th of June, 1908, at Flintville, this county, Mr. Milzarck was united in marriage to Miss Annie Muraski, a daughter of Anton and Mary (Carpinski) Muraski. Her father is a farmer of Suamico township. Our subject and his wife have two children, Mary and Francis. In politics Mr. Milzarck is a republican and in religious faith a Catholic. Coming to Brown county when a little lad of four years, he has here remained to the present time and now enjoys a reputation as a young man of enterprise and ability.

John Shefeck

Working as a farm hand at the very early age of nine years and thus making a start in the business world, John Shepeck is now numbered among the prosperous citizens of Green Bay, where he is conducting a real-estate, loan and insurance agency. He started in this line on the 3d of March, 1893, and his enterprising methods have brought to him a large clientage, his business being directed from well appointed offices at 207 Sheridan building.

Mr. Shepeck came to Green Bay, March 4, 1869. then a youth of fifteen years, his birth having occurred in Bohemia, Austria, May 7. 1854. His parents were John and Anna Shepeck, who came with their family to the new world in 1862, landing in Baltimore, after having been on a sailing vessel for twelve weeks and two days. From the Atlantic coast they made their way into the interior of the country, settling first in the midst of the forest in Manitowoc county. The father remained in the woods until 1868. Having a good knowledge of the cooperage business he obtained employment at the Scheibe brewery in Centerville. where he remained until 1872. when he came to Green Bay and entered the employ of the Rahr Brewing Company, with which he continued until his death in 1908 when he was seventy-seven years of age. He had long survived his wife, who passed away in 1890, and both were laid to rest in Menominee, Michigan.

John Shepeck never had opportunity to attend school and is therefore a self-educated as well as a self-made man. In the school of experience, however, he has learned many valuable lessons and has become a practical business man whose laudable ambition and determined purpose have brought him to success. T11 1862. when about nine years of age, he hired out to a German farmer and while living with him learned to read and write the German language. He spent three years in that way and at the end of that time went to Centerville and secured employment in a tannery, remaining there until February. 1869. He then came to Green Bay - a boy of fifteen years - yet he had already had six years' experience in the business world. He arrived with only thirty-eight cents in his pocket, and his financial condition rendered immediate employment a necessity. He started to saw wood and do chores at the United States hotel for his board and lodging, being thus employed for about six weeks. In the meantime he was watching for an opportunity that would enable him to earn a salary and entered the employ of Burcell Brothers, who put him to work at sawing shingles. He had been in that situation for only a few days, however, when the boiler at the plant burst and several men were killed. He then returned to the hotel for a week, after which he secured employment from Mr. Lemont in a sawmill in Oconto count)*, where he continued until 1871. He next was employed by Cook & Foster in a shingle mill and was there employed until September, 1872, when he went to Pensaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked in a shingle mill until 1873. He then returned to Green Bay and for four months was in the employ of the D. W. Britton Cooperage Company. The succeeding season was spent as a sailor on the steamer Northwest, after which he secured a position in the Henry Rahr*s brewery, remaining there until the spring of 1874, when he began work for the Green Bay Hyde Leather Company. He withdrew from that connection in October, 1875, and then went to Sheboygan, working in the tannery of Sechke & Son, who were also manufacturers of harness leather. Mr. Shepeck finished the first side of harness leather that was turned out of the establishment, remaining there until 1877. He was then offered a position as superintendent for the Green Bay Hyde Leather Company and acted in that capacity until 1883.

In that year he was appointed city police officer under Hon. Mayor Abrams and remained on the force until 1886. He then resigned and purchased the Bohemian House, conducting that hotel until 1893. In that year he was appointed revenue stamp collector and filled the office until 1898 but in the interim embarked in the fire insurance business. He today represents fifteen fire insurance companies and is one of the most prominent in this line of activity in Brown county. He is today one of the directors of the United American Fire Insurance Company of Milwaukee, which has issued its thirteenth annual statement showing the company to be in splendid condition. He was the organizer of this company and was its first president. He also handles loans and real estate, has negotiated many important realty transfers and has succeeded in placing many large loans. He now has an extensive clientage, and what he has accomplished has placed him with the successful business men of Green Bay. Into other fields he has also extended his efforts and is now vice president of the Green Bay Canning Company. He is a director and was one of the incorporators of the McGreery Steel Company of Iron River. Michigan, which was incorporated Octobers, 1912, for five hundred thousand dollars. It controls a large area of rich iron ore and its business is the mining and shipping of said ore.

On the 19th of November, 1875, Mr. Shepeck was married to Miss Emma First, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry First, pioneer settlers of Greei) Bay. Both her father and mother, however, are now deceased, their graves having been made in Woodlawn cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Shepeck have four children : Edward, who is connected with the Joannes Grocery Company ; Annie, the wife of Charles Kuska, connected with the Joannes Grocerv Com- pany; Minnie, the widow of Henry Hoberg; and Hattie, residing at home. The family resides at 1510 Elm street, in the home which Mr. Shepeck erected in 1876.

In politics Mr. Shepeck has. always been a stalwart democrat and he filled the office of alderman for eleven years, during which time he exercised his official prerogatives, in support of many progressive public movements which have been directly beneficial to the city. He belongs to the Equitable, the Green Bay Brewers Benevolent Society and for twenty-five years has been a member of the Green Bay Turn Verein. He has justly won the proud American title of a self-made man in this country where labor is king. In his vocabulary there is no such word as fail. He recognized at the outset that the way to success was a hard and difficult one and a steady climb upward but his resolute spirit has enabled him to persevere and he stands today among those who have prospered by reason of their determination and unfaltering energy.

Hiram O. Fairchild

The city of Green Bay has been remarkable for a number of years for the professional eminence of the members of its bar. The lawyers of this city have attained a reputation in past generations for legal ability and attainments of high order and this preeminence they have handed down in honorable tradition to the lawyers of the present time.

Hiram O. Fairchild, who is doing a general law practice as a member of the firm of Greene, Fairchild, North, Parker & McGillan, with offices at No. 301 North Washington street, has done his share to keep the legal standards of Green Bay up to their high point of excellence and has added luster to the profession. He was born in Newtown, Indiana, August 14, 1845, a son of Rev. John and Laura P. (Bigelow) Fairchild. The family is of Scotch origin. Rev. John Fairchild came to Wisconsin in 1862 and died in this state in 1885, his wife surviving him until 1896. They are both buried at Marinette, Wisconsin. An ancestor of the subject of this sketch, on the maternal side, named De Bigulo, came to this country in the seventeenth century. The name underwent transformation in the succeeding years until it reached its present form.

Hiram O. Fairchild received his early education in the primary and high schools of Wabash, Indiana. He later attended Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, in that state, graduating from the classical course of that institution in 1866. He spent one year in the west at Fort Kearney, Nebraska, going to Oconto, Wisconsin, in 1867, where he studied law with his brother John B. Fairchild and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He located first in Marinette, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the general practice of the law until 1895, when he came to this city and was made a partner in the firm of Greene, Vroman & Fairchild, which later became Greene, Fairchild, North, Parker & McGillan. with which he is at present connected. Politically he is a republican and takes an active and intelligent interest in public affairs. He served for fourteen years as district attorney for Marinette

On November 21, 1871, Mr. Fairchild was united in marriage at ' Craw - fordsville, Indiana, to Miss Emma Hough, a daughter of George and Caroline Hough, of that city, and they are the parents of four children: Caroline H., who married Herbert L. Kimbel, a prominent attorney of Spokane, Washington ; Bertha W.. the wife of Douglas S. Basile. of Vancouver, British Columbia ; Arthur W., who is a member of the law firm of Miller, Mack & Fairchild, of .Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; and Herbert B.. who is connected with Frank A. Munsey Publishing Company, of Chicago, Illinois. The family residence is at No. 845 South Quincy street, this city. Mr. Fairchild is one of the most industrious students of the law. He never feels that he has attained perfect proficiency in the varied learning of his profession and spends much time in keeping his knowledge up-to-date. He respects the legal profession and the position he has acquired in it as a sacred trust not to be lightly recorded or unworthily used.

Christ Anderson

Christ Anderson is carrying on general farming on an excellent tract of land of eighty acres in New Denmark and has one of the finest and most intelligently developed farms in the section. He was born in Denmark in 1857 and is a son of Anders and Sophia Nelson. He was married in his native country and afterward came to America, settling in Brown county upon his present farm. His first purchase consisted of forty acres to which several years later he added a tract of similar size. It was covered with a heavy growth of timber which Mr. Anderson cleared, felling the trees and grubbing the stumps. He erected barns and other outbuildings upon his property and now has one of the fine farms in the section, doing the entire labor incident to its operation.

In Denmark Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Bodel Jensen Doth, and they became the parents of six children, Peter, Anna, Botto, Louis, Johanna and Emma. The family are members of the Danish Lutheran church.

Mr. Anderson is recognized as one of the enterprising, progressive and substantial farmers of New Denmark. In transforming a tract of untouched timber land into an excellent modern farm he has accomplished a definite work and has gained prosperity, founded on hard work and efficiency.

Frank B. Seymour

The career of Frank B. Seymour is a conspicuous example of the power of dominating ambition in the making of a successful business life. This quality of Mr. Seymour's character showed itself in early youth when, as a boy of fifteen, he obtained employment as water carrier for a railroad construction gang ; it remained with him as he rose in importance in the railroad world and is his most valuable asset in his present position as general manager of the Green Bay & Western Railroad Company, in which capacity he has served since January i, 1911.

Air. Seymour was born in Watertown, Jefferson county, New York, October 5, 1856, and is a son of Gilbert and Alary Seymour. His father, who was a carpenter, plied his trade in Watertown until he came west in

1864. In that year he enlisted in Company A, Forty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and fought during the remainder of the Civil war under Captain Duncan McGregor. He received his honorable discharge in

1865. He died in 1893 at the age of sixty- five years ana was survived by his wife until 1903. Her death occurred in the seventy-sixth year of her age, and she is buried beside her husband in New London, Wisconsin.

Frank Seymour received his primary education in the public schools of New London, whither his family had removed during the Civil war, and he was graduated from the High school of that city in 1870. In the spring of the following year, when not yet fifteen, he obtained a position as water carrier for a railroad construction gang on the grade work of the Old Green Bay & Lake Pepin Railroad, now Green Bay & Western. He did not remain long in this minor position as his ability and industry were soon recognized and he rose through various positions until in 1887 when he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Green Bay & Western Railroad Company, and one year later was promoted to the position of general superintendent with offices at Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1908 Mr. Jordan, the general manager of the road, became ill and the real duties of that position fell upon Mr. Seymour, while Mr. Jordan still filled the position. Flowever, our subject's conspicuous service and his thorough grasp of every detail of the business were rewarded by his appointment as successor to Mr. Jordan, becoming general manager of the road on the 1st of January, 191 1. For forty-two years he has now been identified with the railroad business and during all that time has been connected with what is now the Green Bay & Western Railroad. He has been with the railroad through all of its struggles and troubles and has served in almost every position from the lowest to that of general manager, which he now fills. When less than eighteen years of age he was made a conductor, being the youngest in the history of Wisconsin, and he was a conductor in charge of a regular passenger train before he was twenty. Always temperate in his habits and never becoming excited during any emergency or danger, he early evinced those qualities of leadership which were recognized by his superior officers and led to his steady advancement. When asked to what particular thing he attributed his success more than to any other, he replied: "Hard work and always trying to do a little more than was expected of me. A man cannot fail when he does that." Besides his position with the Green Bay & Western Railroad Company he is also general manager of the Ahnapee & Western and the Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western Railroad Companv.

former a prominent lumber merchant of that city and one of its early settlers. Mr. Seymour and his wife have one daughter, Ida, who is now the wife of Joseph M. Zahorik, manager and bookkeeper for the Gazette Candy Company of Green Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Seymour reside in a pleasant and comfortable home at 333 South Jefferson street, this city.

Politically Mr. Seymour gives his allegiance to the republican party but has never taken an active part in public affairs. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a Knight Templar and was a charter member of La Crosse lodge, and he also belongs to the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Seymour is at present only fifty-six years of age and has gained in a comparatively short time a degree of prominence which is usually the result of a much longer period. He understands the railroad business in all its various departments and has gained his knowledge through personal experience and has developed it along material and progressive lines until today he is one of the most prominent railroad men in the city of Green Bay.

William Yandenberg

Among the men who have contributed to the business enterprise and consequent growth and prosperity of De Pere, William Yandenberg is numbered. He was for many years an active factor in industrial and commercial circles here and his success as a grocer enabled him eventually to retire from active life, his acquired possessions being sufficient to supply him throughout his remaining days with all of the necessities and comforts of life. He was born March 6, 1844, in Holland. His father, Lawrence Yandenberg, was a native of the same country, born in 1796. He married Johanna De Wert, whose birth occurred in the land of the dikes in 1801. The paternal grandfather was William Vandenberg, a farmer by occupation, and thus it was that Lawrence Vandenberg early became familiar with agricultural pursuits. In the year 1853 he came with his wife and family to the United States, landing in New York city, whence he made his way to Ohio and afterward came to Wisconsin, settling in Green Bay, in 1854. His family subsequently lived at Freedom, Wisconsin, where he died November 12, 1867. His wife survived him for a long period, passing away March 25, 1885.

William Yandenberg is the only survivor of a family of twelve children. His educational opportunities were limited, for at the age of twelve years he began providing for his own support by active work on the farm, devoting eleven years to agricultural pursuits. On the expiration of that period he came to De Pere and worked in the blast furnace of the Fox River Iron Company. He previously spent a year at Marinette. Michigan, but Brown county proved more attractive to him as a place of residence and he returned to this state. On leaving the Fox River Iron Company he secured a position in a woodenware factory at De Pere, with which he was connected for three years. During that period he carefully saved his earnings until his industry and economy had brought him sufficient capital to enable him to engage in business on his own account. He then opened a grocery store in West De Pere and for nineteen years conducted the business, thus becoming one of the oldest merchants of the city. He carried a well selected line of goods and his earnest desire to please his customers and his reasonable prices brought him a gratifying measure of success. He retired in April, 1906, with a comfortable competence, which was the merited reward of his close application and unfaltering industry.

.Mr. Yandenberg was united in marriage to Miss Odelia Van der Linden, who was born in Holland, a daughter of John and Mary Van der Linden, who crossed the Atlantic with the Yandenberg family. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Yandenberg was celebrated in Freedom, Wisconsin, and unto them were born ten children, of whom four yet survive: Lawrence W., a foundryman of De Pere, who married Delia Ternuzen and has five children ; Martin, a molder of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who married Catherine Taylor and has two children ; Johanna, who is the wife of John Gevers, of De Pere and the mother of two children ; and Dora, at home.

To the Catholic faith the family have always adhered and Mr. Vandenberg gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He has held the office of alderman of the fourth ward of De Pere for a term and was county supervisor for three years. He ever discharged his official duties with promptness and fidelity, his public record being creditable to himself and highly satisfactory to his constituents. Throughout the period of his residence here he has been actuated by the progressive American spirit and his business affairs were so conducted as to win for him not only a substantial financial return but also an honored name.

Iyer E. P. Miller

America is a country of self-made men - men who have started their career at the bottom of the ladder, but by the faithful performance of the tasks which they found to do, by perseverance, industry and intelligently directed efforts, have risen to positions of importance among their fellowmen. Iver Miller, now the sole owner of the Green Bay Foundry & Machine Works, is a man of this class. He is a native of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where his birth occurred on September 11, 1868. His parents were Peter and Maria Miller, both natives of Germany. His father never left his native country where he died when Iver Miller was but six months old. The mother came to America with her son, in 1882, and lived with him for some time in Green Bay where her death occurred in 1910. She is buried in Fox Hill cemetery.

Iver E. P. Miller received his early education in the public schools of Germany. His opportunities were limited, however, and he was obliged to put aside his books at the early age of fourteen years. He then secured employment on a farm near the city where he spent one year doing the various tasks incident to agricultural life. He spent the next three years as bell boy in the Cook Hotel at Green Bay. and at the end of that period started to learn the mechanical details of his present business. His first position was a humble one and he received for his services fifty cents a day. Even in this minor capacity, however, he showed himself a capable, willing worker, and his advancement was rapid. By hard labor and concentrated industry he gradually mastered the details of the machinist's trade and became an expert workman along this line. Early in his career he showed the mechanical bent of his mind and proved himself capable of handling the most delicately balanced apparatus. He gradually rose from the position of common laborer in the machine shop to that of foreman and his work in this capacity was marked by a keen intelligence and a remarkable executive power in the management of the men under his charge. The early hardships of his career had taught him economy, and he saved his money until in 1904 he had amassed a sufficient amount to enable him to buy an interest in the business. In 1910 he purchased the interest of his two partners and became sole owner of the Green Bay Foundry & Machine Works. The plant which the business occupies is situated at the corner of Arndt street and South Broadway, and occupies a floor space of one hundred by one hundred and seventy feet. Mr. Miller employs on an average of forty people, and this number is at busy times increased to seventy-five. The Green Bay Foundry & .Machine Works is recognized today as a promising and growing industrial enterprise and its success is largely the result of the expert knowledge and capable management of its owner.

On November 20, 1897, Iver Miller was united in marriage to Miss Martha Hansen, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hansen, the former a pioneer farmer of New Denmark, Brown county. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of one son, Carl H., now attending the public schools of Green Bay. The family residence is at the corner of South Ashland and Mason streets, and is a pleasant and comfortable home which Mr. Miller erected in 1897.

Mr. Miller is affiliated with the republican party and takes an intelligent interest in public affairs. He has, however, never sought office for himself, being absorbed in the management and development of his great industrial enterprise. He holds membership in the Moravian church of Green Bay, and has always been active in the affairs of that organization. He is an intelligent and upright man whose life has been devoted to the upbuilding and improvement of his flourishing foundry and he highly deserves the respect and esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens.

Robert B. Yickery

Robert B. Yickery, a representative business man and worthy native son of Brown county, makes his home on section 23, Suamico township. For the past seven years he has successfully conducted a general mercantile establishment at Big Suamico, and he is also the senior member of the contracting concern of Vickery & De Bruin. His birth occurred in Suamico township, this county, on the 4th of March, 1873, his parents being Robert and Elizabeth fWyatt) Vickery, both of whom were natives of England.

The father, who was born on the 16th of March, 1837, emigrated to the United States as a young man of twenty and spent one year in New York. Subsequently he made his way to Waupaca county. Wisconsin, where he purchased land and followed farming for a few years. Disposing of his property, he came to Brown county and purchased and located on a tract of land in Suamico township. In 1909 he put aside the active work of the fields and has since lived in honorable retirement. His wife passed away in 1910, at the age of seventy-four years, her birth having occurred in 1836. Their children were five in number, namely : John ; Charles ; William ; Eva, who died at the age of three years; and Robert B., of this review.

The last named attended district school No. 2 of his native township until sixteen years of age and after putting aside his text-books assisted his father in the operation of the home farm throughout the summer months, while during the winter seasons he worked in the woods. In 1905, when thirty-two years of age, he purchased the general store at Big Suamico and has since conducted the same most successfully, being accorded a liberal and gratifying patronage. He carries a stock of general merchandise valued at four thousand dollars and is at all times in a position to meet the demands and wishes of his customers. In connection with his mercantile undertaking he is interested as half owner in the contracting firm conducting business under the name of Vickery & De Bruin. He is likewise a stockholder in the Howard Creamery Company and also owns the old homestead farm of one hundred acres.

Mr. Vickery has been married twice. On the nth of October, 1895, at Green Bay, he wedded Miss Winifred Knapp, by whom he had one child, James. The wife and mother passed away on the 13th of September, 1896, and on the 18th of April, 1900, at Green Bay, Mr. Vickery was again married, his second union being with Alta Dickinson, a daughter of John Dickinson, who is an agriculturist of Howard township. By his second wife Mr. Vickery has a son, George.

Mr. Vickery is a republican in politics and has served in the capacity of town clerk for twelve years. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, while his religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. He has always lived in Brown county and has established himself in the regard of his fellowmen as an energetic and progressive business man, while his social qualities have won him favor and friendship.

Edmund F. Quintal

More than twenty-five years devoted to commercial education has placed Professor Edmund F. Quintal in a prominent position among the educators of his class in the middle west. He is now proprietor of the Green Bay Business College, which occupies the second and third floors at No. 100 North Adams street. The school has made steady advancement in the character of instruction and in the number in attendance since its establishment. Professor Quintal has been a resident of Green

Bay since 1887. He was born in West Stockholm, New York, September 9, 1862, and is a son of Felix and Phila Quintal. The father removed from Canada to the United States in 1852, following the wheelwright's trade, and in 1909 he, too, became a resident of Green Bay, where he is now living retired, making his home with his son. Professor Quintal. The family is of French and English origin. Patriotic devotion to his adopted country led Felix Quintal to enlist in defense of the Union and for a year he was on active duty at the front.

Edmund F. Quintal acquired his primary education in the schools of his native town and his business training was obtained in the Cedar Rapids ( Iowa) Business College. It was then that he came to Green Bay to accept the position of teacher in the Green Bay Business College, with which he was thus connected for seven years. Subsequently he was a teacher in the Brown's Business Colleges in Bloomington, Peoria and Galesburg, Illinois. He afterward purchased the Green Bay Business College, which has enjoyed continued success throughout the period of his principalship, the present enrollment being about three hundred pupils during the year. The school was organized in 1868 and the fact that it has lived and prospered so many years is certainly strong evidence of its superiority and merit. The founder and subsequent proprietors and managers of the Green Bay Business College have been men of great ambition and energy. They have sacrificed much and expended large sums of money in the changes and improvements in courses and facilities which have been made from time to time in order to keep abreast of the foremost in methods and systems. During the last six years the attendance has almost doubled and it is impossible for the school to meet the demand for' help from business men, for it has become a recognized fact that its graduates are competent to fill responsible business positions. Professor Quintal, expert accountant and penman, is superintendent of the courses of study, lecturer on business topics, office methods and systems and gives drills in bookkeeping. He has associated with him F. D. Hoover and F. J. Jonet, expert accountants, who are instructors in arithmetic, advanced bookkeeping, farm accounting, business and office practice, letter writing, penmanship, spelling, rapid calculation and commercial law. The other members of the faculty are Eva M. Waggoner, Louise M. Stern and Lewis B. Quintal, expert stenographers who are teachers of stenography, stenotypy, typewriting, court reporting, legal forms, mimeographing, tabulating and manifolding. Thorough instruction is given in all these branches, which are needed in the business office of the present day, and no higher testimonial concerning the school could be given than that it cannot supply the demand made by those who wish graduates for business positions. Professor Quintal has ever held to the highest ideals in the conduct of the school, recognizing that theory that cannot be borne out in practice has no value. His pupils therefore, are well qualified to enter at once upon positions where the only requirement is not the mastery of principles, but the task of familiarizing themselves with the details of specific business enterprises.

and unto them have been born three sons and a daughter : Lewis B., now a teacher in the Green Bay Business College; and Elwyn W., Kenneth E. and Alice L., all students in the public schools. The family reside at No. 1124 South Webster avenue and they attend the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Professor Quintal and his wife are members. His political support is given to the Republican party, but he has no time nor inclination for office, feeling that he can best serve his fellowmen by the capable conduct of a school that will prepare the young for life's practical and responsible duties.

Ludolf M. Hansen

The career of Ludolf M. Hansen exemplifies in a conspicuous manner the splendid qualities of industry and good citizenship which distinguish so many of the native sons of Germany who have left the fatherland to come to the new world. Mr. Hansen is treasurer of the Wilson-Walter-Hansen Hardware Company, one of the most flourishing institutions of its kind in Green Bay, and he is also prominently identified with the real-estate business in Brown county. He was born in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, June 11, 1875, and is a son of John M. and Inger Hansen, also natives of Germany, who came to Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1895.

Ludolf M. Hansen received his education in the public schools of his native country and learned the carpenter's trade before he came to America. He crossed the Atlantic with his parents in 1895. He was at that time twenty years of age and for some time he followed the carpenter's trade. He never refused to do any honest work, however, and was not above splitting and sawing wood at fifty cents a day. After devoting some time to various occupations he obtained a position in a furniture factory. His salary when he started in was a dollar and twelve cents a day, but by his industry and intelligence he gradually rose to the position of manager and drew a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars a month. During the years 1894 and 1895 the financial condition of this section of the country was extremely unstable. There were many men out of employment and the streets of Green Bay were filled with laborers who were unable to get work at the wages of two and three dollars a day. which they demanded. With his characteristic industry Mr. Hansen accepted any position which was offered to him, preferring to work at a low wage rather than be idle for any period of time. His love of activity and his power of concentrated industry have been his dominant characteristics and are the secret of his success. When he resigned his position with the Green Bay Furniture factory he worked for a short time as foreman for a local contractor and then started in business for himself as a hardware dealer, meeting with remarkable success along that line. He is now in partnership with Messrs. Wilson and Walter under the firm name of the Wilson-Walter-Hansen Hardware Company and he has held the position of treasurer of this concern since March 1, 191 1. The company has two stores in Green Bay, one at 406-410 Dousman street and the other at 115 North Broadway.

Mr. Hansen is also interested in the real-estate and building business and has met with his usual success along those lines. He builds on an average of forty houses every year and is the owner of much valuable property in Brown county. He buys real estate as a speculation, builds upon it and improves it and finally sells at a fair profit. He has erected about two hundred and fifty of the finest residences in Green Bay. Aside from his individual speculations in improved real estate he also takes contracts for others and has built up a rapidly growing business in this connection. He is also half owner and treasurer of the Akin Laundry Company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in Brown county, and is interested in every movement looking toward the commercial development of Green Bay.

On August 20, 1901, Air. Hansen was united in marriage, in Green Bay, to Miss Inger Selmer, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Selmer, the former a prominent farmer of Brown county. Mr. Hansen and his wife are the parents of three children : Alma, now attending school in Green Bay ; Mildred : and Pearl. The family reside at 114 South Maple street in a beautiful home which Mr. Hansen erected some time ago. He holds membership in the Green Bay Commercial Club, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Ausgar Society. He is well known and widely popular in Green Bay and has done much to further the commercial and industrial development of the city. He possesses exceptional musical ability, becoming very proficient on both the violin and trombone during his boyhood. He turned this to account by playing for parties, etc.. and not only supported himself but also saved enough to make a start in the business world as he made from seventy to eighty dollars per month. He continued to play in the evening after embarking in other enterprises until his business had increased so in volume that it claimed his entire attention. He still keeps up his practice however.

Robert T. Jexxey

Robert T. Jenney. who established the Western Steel & Iron Works in De Pere in 1906. is a native of Wisconsin, having been born in Waupaca county in 1874. His family was founded in America in early colonial times by representatives of the name who came from England to the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts, about 1630. Members of the family resided in and about New Bedford, Massachusetts, up to the time when Thomas Jenney, the father of our subject, came to Wisconsin in 1848. In the Revolutionary war the family was represented by the great-grandfather of Robert Jenney, who served under General Washington in the Continental army. Thomas Jenney was a builder and architect and spent his early youth and manhood in Massachusetts. He went to Waupaca county, Wisconsin, in 1848, where he followed his profession for many years. He also built the first power boat ever operated on the Wolf river running between Fond du Lac and Gill's Landing. It was extremely primitive in construction and was run by horse power on a treadmill. He died in 1896 at the age of eighty years, and is buried in Lind cemetery. Waupaca county.

Robert Jenney early became acquainted with the profession of engineering and attained a degree of expertness in designing and inventing which caused him to be sent to England by a Chicago engineering company to take charge of their British interests. He remained in England from 1898 until 1903, during which last year he was entrusted with the perfecting of various electrical devices for Lord Kelvin. It was in the line of invention that Mr. Jenney especially distinguished himself while abroad, but on account of ill-health was eventually obliged to resign his position and return home.

Mr. Jenney married in 1901, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the English writer known as Shirley Carson. They have two children : Evelyn, born in London in 1902; and Rosamund, born in Green Bay, in 1912. Mrs. Jenney has continued her profession, and in addition to a good deal of magazine work, published both in England and America, she has written a novel called "The Motto of Mrs. McLane," which is a picturesque sketch of the early days of Wisconsin settlement. The family reside at North Broadway, De Pere, Wisconsin.

No history of Green Bay would be complete without extended reference to Michael Joseph McCormick, who long occupied a central place on the stage of public activity here. He was a business man whose efforts were of far-reaching importance. Many, indeed, were the lines that felt the stimulus of his cooperation and benefited by his sound judgment, and throughout his career he was actuated in all that he did by a spirit of devotion to the public good. His life was, indeed, one of usefulness to the community in which he lived and his memory is yet cherished by all who knew him.

A native of Brown county, he was born on a farm in Suamico, in 1854, and was a resident of that town until 1870. He came of Irish ancestry, his parents, John and Mary ( Earley ) McCormick, having been natives of the Emerald isle, where they were born in 1813 and 1816 respectively and whence they sailed for the United States in 1850. For a time they were residents of New Hampshire but later removed to the middle west, establishing their home on a farm in Brown county, Wisconsin. The tract of land which the father purchased was covered with heavy timber and in connection with farming he engaged in lumbering throughout the remainder of his life. He died upon that place in 1865 and his wife, who long survived him, passed away in 1910, at the venerable age of ninety-four and a half years. They were the parents of three children, the daughters being Sarah and Amelia McCormick, who reside in Green Bay.

The family remained upon the old homestead property until 1870, at which time Michael J. McCormick was a youth of sixteen years. He had previously acquired a fair English education in the public schools and later became one of the first students in the Green Bay Business College, where he finished the course with high honors, his record being often cited by the principal as an example for the others to emulate.

For a long period he was prominent in business circles and was at all times trustworthy, practical, industrious and progressive. He entered business circles as a bookkeeper for the Monitor Iron Works of Fort Howard and prior to 1876 was for some time bookkeeper for the N. C. Foster Lumber Company. He then began business for himself, selling flour and feed, in which line of trade he continued in connection with other business activities for several years. In 1878 he became agent for the Goodrich Transportation Company at Green Bay and was long identified with the carrying interests of the country, either navigation or rail. In 1886 he became agent for the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad Company, which was then operating -a through boat from Buffalo to Green Bay. His business connection with' the navigation interests at this port and his consequent familiarity with all local needs of navigation made his opinions of great usefulness to the Business Men's Association and to the city in shaping and securing harbor improvements, which in recent years have been carried steadily forward by the government. As the years passed by Mr. McCormick's cooperation was sought in connection with the control of many important business concerns which have proven of value in promoting the commercial and industrial growth of the city as well as individual prosperity. He made investment in many of the most prominent business concerns of the city and was elected officer or director therein. He planned, promoted and started the Northern Paper Mills in 1901 and on the organization he was elected to its presidency, and also as secretary and director of the Green Bay Paper & Fiber Company he took an active part in its management and in shaping its policy. He also figured in financial circles as a director in the Citizens National Bank and as treasurer and one of the directors of the Brown County Building & Loan Association. He was made a director on its organization in 1893 and four years later, or in June, 1897, was elected treasurer. He was also the secretary of the Farm Garden Company. For fourteen years, from 1892 until 1906, he served the Business Men's Association as its secretary and was elected its president more than a year prior to his death. Some regard his connection with the association as the most important work of his life. Tt is certain that in that office he contributed in notably large measure to the upbuilding and development of the city, his cooperation in its industrial and commercial progress being of the greatest benefit to individual enterprises and to the city at large. He had the greatest faith in Green Bay and its future. He recognized its possibilities and sought the wise use of every opportunity that led to its upbuilding. It was Mr. McCormick who erected a large warehouse between Pine and Main streets on Fox river in 1892. When the Northwestern Fuel Company withdrew from the field here Mr. McCormick continued to engage in the retail coal trade and in this, as in other connections, won success through close application, unfaltering diligence and honorable effort. He had been for twenty years a representative at Green Bay of the Northwestern Fuel Company and this and his many other business connections had made him very widely known throughout the state. As previously stated he organized the paper mill business in Green Bay and, indeed, it is impossible to name any of the more important business concerns which have not benefited by his efforts either

Mr. McCormick was very prominent in whist circles and was honored by being elected the first president of the Northwestern Wisconsin Whist League. He was president of the Elks Whist Club at the time of his death and was at one time at the head of the Green Bay Whist Club. He held membership with the Elks lodge at Green Bay and also the Green Bay council of the Knights of Columbus. His religious faith was that of the Catholic church. He passed away on the 7th of November, 1908, at which time one of the local papers wrote: "In the fifty-three years of his business life M. J. McCormick gained a position of which any man might be proud. . . . All of the city is in mourning for the departed man, flags are hanging at half-mast and expressions of regret and sorrow are heard on every hand among all classes of people from laborer to capitalist. In every walk of life he was the same genial, sympathetic individual, beloved by those who knew him or knew of him. His list of friends and acquaintances was one of great proportions and he was known in every city of Wisconsin as a most honorable and progressive business man." He had been ill for some time from dropsy and a weak heart, but the end came suddenly. He fell from his chair unconscious and in a few minutes his spirit had taken its flight. His funeral was attended by a multitude of his friends, who gathered at what was probably the largest funeral ever held in Green Bay, to pay the last, sad tribute to his memory.

Gus A. Walter, Jr., is one of the prominent and representative young business men of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and has carried out the progressive policy with which he began his business career. He is secretary and treasurer of the Hagemeister Brewing Company, with which he has been connected since his arrival in Green Bay in 1901, and he has served in his present capacity since 1903. He also holds the office of secretary and treasurer in the Hagemeister Realty Company, which is affiliated with the brewing business.

Mr. Walter was born in Wheeling, Virginia, in 1880, and is a son of Gus A. and Mary (Hagemeister) Walter. He attended the public schools of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, later took a high-school course there, and afterward a course in a business college in Green Bay. He acquired a good education, which he considers one of his most valuable assets in his business career. It was in 1901 that he came to Green Bay and entered the office of the Hagemeister Brewing Company. His promotion was rapid and due to his undoubted ability. After three years' service he was appointed secretary and treasurer of the Hagemeister Brewing Company with a similar office in the realty company of the same name. He is one of the energetic and alert young men who are the bulwark of municipal life and he has already become an influencing force in the commercial expansion of Green Bay. He is a member of the board of education of the city and has held the office since July, 1910. He is also a member of Lodge No. 259, B. P. O. E., of Green Bay.

In 1Q05 Air. Walter was united in marriage to Miss Jessie Messenger, of Green Bay. who died October 22, 1907, leaving a son, John, now five years of age. Air. Walter is well versed in his business and though still a young man he has exhibited a shrewd and discriminating business sense and energy, unfaltering ambition and powerful determination, which promises well for larger success in the future.

Peter Christman

Industry and determination are necessary factors in business or professional success. It is due to their possession, as vital forces in his character, that Peter Christman owes his present position in commercial circles of Green Bay. He is the proprietor of one of the large general department stores of that city, located at 1100 and 1 102 Main street, where his business has been carried on since October, 1907.

Peter Christman is a native of Wisconsin, having been born at Manitowoc Rapids in this state, June 7, 1858. His parents were John A. and Annie M. Christman. His father came from Germany in 1854 and settled on a farm near Manitowoc. The land was undeveloped and he was obliged to clear the timber and erect buildings. He made shingles by hand to facilitate the work and eventually engaged in the cultivation of the soil. He died in 1877 at the age of sixty-four years, his wife surviving him until 1901, when her death occurred in her seventy-fifth year. They are buried side by side at the Allouez cemetery.

The parochial schools of his native city afforded Peter Christman his early educational opportunities. When his family had removed to Green Bay, he entered the local business college, an institution founded by A. C. Blackman, and completed the commercial course at the age of fourteen years. He immediately accepted a position as clerk in a business conducted by D. W. Britton and later had charge of a store for the Astor Planing Mill, in which connection he continued for one year. He followed the occupation of house painting for the next fifteen years and then, in partnership with A. Dubois, started in his present line of activity. They founded a grocery and dry-goods business on a small scale. They located their store at the corner of Main and Webster streets and their success, though gradual, was continuous. Their original quarters at length became too small to accommodate their growing trade, and in 1895 the enterprise was moved to its present location at the corner of Main and Tenth streets, which is a modern two-story building, covering a floor space of fifty-three feet by ninety feet, and is one of the most up-to-date and enterprising mercantile establishments in Green Bay. The partnership with Mr. Dubois was continued until 1907. when it was dissolved, and Peter Christman has carried on the busi- ness independently since that time. Although the active interest of his life is given to his grocery and dry-goods business, which was the foundation of his fortune, yet he by no means confines his energies to the one line. He is a firm believer in the industrial and commercial future of Green Bay and always invests his capital in local enterprises. He is president of the Paper Novelty Company, organized for the purpose of manufacturing crepe paper and paper napkins. He is a stockholder in the Bank of Green Bay and the Badger Casualty Company. He has. a keen business instinct and his capacity for judging the merits of a new enterprise, his shrewdness in investment and his power of discrimination have brought him a comfortable fortune, which he always uses to promote the municipal development of his city. During his career as a merchant, however, he not only confined his energetic faculties to the mercantile business but is also interested in several meritorious inventions which he himself devised, viz. : a mechanical movement, a store-goods package lifter ; and several deep well pumps, one of which has a quadruple delivery. His cooperation is eagerly sought in business circles and his keen mind makes his opinion of great weight.

On October 29, 1889, Mr. Christman was married in Green Bay to Miss Appolonia Bins, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bins, the former a pioneer farmer of Humboldt, Wisconsin. They are the parents of ten children: Rose K.. who is a clerk in her father's dry-goods store; John J., a graduate of St. Norbert's college at De Pere, Wisconsin, and now bookkeeper for a fish company in his native city; Peter J., Jr., associated with his father in the grocery and dry-goods business ; Frederick YV., bookkeeper for the Bank of Green Bay ; Agnes S., Hilda, Marie, George, Evelyn and Norbert, all of whom are living at home. The family residence is at 1 108 Cherry street.

Mr. Christman takes very little active part in politics. He is entirely non-partisan, keeping his views and ideas independent of party lines. He has never sought public office, preferring to devote his energies and attention to the development of the large business of which he is the head. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church and active in the affairs of the Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. He has many friends in Green Bay who look upon his growing business success as the well deserved reward of early effort and well directed energy.

Julius Speerschneider

No history of the pioneer settlement and later upbuilding of Brown county would be complete without mention of Julius Speerschneider, one of the most prominent, substantial and representative farmers of Scott township. He is operating a fine modern farm of two hundred and twentyacres, a tract of land upon which he turned the first furrow thirty-two years ago, and since that time the work of cultivation has been steadily carried forward along lines of progress and the excellent condition of the farm is direct evidence of the value of the care and labor which have been be- stowed upon it. -Mr. Speerschneider was born in what was then known as Tanktown, Brown county. .May 26, 1854. His father. August Speerschneider, was a native of Germany, born in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, in June, 183 1. When he was eighteen years of age he came alone to the United States and settled in Wisconsin in 1849. For some time he worked upon various farms, receiving for his labors eight dollars per month. Later he went to Mashie Mill and was employed there a short time but finally returned to Scott township, where he took up one hundred and sixty acres of unimproved land, which he brought to a high state of cultivation. Before this time he obtained employment as the operator of the ferry across Fox river owned by Mr. Wheelock and for six years he divided his attention between running the boats and making improvements upon his farm. Fie cleared the land and in i860 definitely established his residence upon this property and there resided until his death on May 5, 1910. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Carolina Risch, a daughter of Peter Risch and a native of Germany. She died in 1868, leaving six children, and in the following year August Speerschneider wedded Miss Philipine Brenner, who is still living.

Born in this section in early times. Julius Speerschneider's childhood was spent amidst scenes of pioneer development. In the winter time he went to a little log schoolhouse and in the summers aided his father in the arduous work of clearing and cultivating. He remained at home until he was twenty-two and then began his independent career. He went to Green Bay and worked in various capacities in the city for three or four years. During this time he purchased eighty acres of wild land in Scott township and when he had partly paid for this property left Green Bay and made his home on rented land while building a little log cabin upon his farm. When the new home was completed Mr. Speerschneider moved into it and began the work which has gradually brought him success and prominence as a general agriculturist. Acre by acre the land was brought under the plow and planted and soon abundant harvests rewarded the owner's care and labor. Gradually good buildings were erected and a fine modern residence replaced the original log cabin. Mr. Speerschneider fenced his fields, installed modern machinery and neglected nothing which would make his farm a model enterprise. He has never abandoned the work of further development but is constantly making improvements and changes and has become known throughout the district as a most progressive and able agriculturist. For some time he was treasurer of the New Century Creamery Company and at the present time is serving as treasurer and trustee of the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association.

In 1880 Mr. Speerschneider married Miss Emmaline Anschutz, a daughter of August Anschutz, a pioneer in the settlement of Brown county. Mr. and Mrs. Speerschneider became the parents of eight children. Emma has passed awav. John was killed in November. iqo6. He was a student at the university at Madison and drowned while diving into the swimming tank in the gymnasium. He had almost completed a course in butter making, having intended to make this his future occupation. Lillian has also passed awav. The other children born to Mr. and Mrs. Speerschneider are Frederick A.. Julius, Tr., Robert. Amanda and Arthur. The family belong to the

German Lutheran church. No man has done more steady, progressive work in agricultural development than has Julius Speerschneider and his success is well merited, for it has come by reason of well directed energy and labor. The evidences of prosperity about his farm are also proofs of the ability of the man who operates the property and who in every way is a successful agriculturist and an upright and straightforward citizen. In politics he is a democrat.

John C. Fogarty

One of the most prominent industries of Brown county and one which has done much to make it the prosperous section which it is today is that of paper manufacture, and one of the most prominent firms engaged in this line of work is the Northern Paper Mills. Its general manager is John C. Fogarty, a man whose power of organization and talent for directing subordinates have made him successful in a responsible position. Although he has been in Green Bay for only nine years he is recognized today as one of the leading factors in its industrial development. He has held his present position since 1909. Mr. Fogarty was born at New Marlboro, Massachusetts, August 27, 1865, a son of William and Ellen (Ahem) Fogarty. The first representative of the family in this country was John Fogarty, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who came to America from Ireland in 1780. He gave valuable aid to the American army during the War of 1812, bringing supplies and ammunition to the soldiers in his little thirty-eight ton boat. The first John Fogarty returned to his native country after the War of 1812 and here his son, the grandfather of our subject was born and here he remained until 1842, when he crossed the Atlantic to America. The first John Fogarty had been a fisherman by trade but his son followed the occupation of paper making in which trade his son, the father of our subject, engaged also. John C. Fogarty, of this review, grew up in the business, learning its details and thoroughly mastering everything connected with it. The family was represented during the Civil war by the father of our subject, who fought from 1861 until 1865 as a member of the Fortyninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged. He now resides at W'ilberham, Massachusetts, having survived his wife since 1877. She is buried at Lee, Massachusetts.

At the usual age John C. Fogarty entered the public schools of Wilberham and spent a short time as a student in the local high school, which he left at the age of fourteen years to become assistant to his father in the paper-making business. He remained in this connection for three years, and then came to Wisconsin, settling first in Nennah, where he obtained a position, running a paper machine, which he filled for six years. This early work along lines of his present activity was invaluable to Mr. Fogarty as it gave him the practical working knowledge of the details of the business and made him a master workman in his trade. His efficiency was soon recognized by an offer of a foremanship with the George A. Whiting Paper Manu- facturing Company at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and this position he held for rive years, showing the talent for organization and ability to control men which distinguishes him in his present capacity. He was foreman for the Niagara Falls Paper Company which is now called the International Paper Company for twelve years, after which he returned to Nekoosa, Wisconsin, as superintendent for the Nekoosa Paper Company. After five years in this connection he resigned his position and came to Green Bay as superintendent of the Northern Paper Mills. His advancement with this firm came rapidly. His work as superintendent was recognized as effective and important by his superiors and in 1909 it was rewarded by his election to the office of general manager, which position he now fills. He is a prominent figure in industrial circles in Green Bay, especially along the line of business with which he has been identified all of his life. He holds the office of president and is a director of the Aster Paper Company and is also a director of the Northern Company.

Politically Mr. Fogarty keeps himself absolutely independent of party lines. He votes for the men whom he considers best fitted for the position and for the policies which he deems most worthy. He is a devoted member of St. Patrick's church and has given his allegiance to the Roman Catholic religion all during his life, being a firm believer in its tenets and doctrines.

On November 20. 1888, Mr. Fogarty was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Moore, of Appleton, Wisconsin, a daughter of Roderick and Margaret (Rinkel) Moore, the former a pioneer pulp maker of Wisconsin. Our subject and his wife became the parents of eleven children, two of whom died in infancy. The others are : George, who died at the age of thirteen years and who was buried at Fort Howard cemetery; William, who is a student at the University of Wisconsin ; Margaret, a teacher in St. Mary's Academy at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin ; Catherine, Josephine and Elizabeth, all students of St. Joseph's Academy ; and John C, Jr., Frances and James, who are attending the public schools of Green Bay. The family residence is at 619 South Quincy street and is one of the hospitable homes of Green Bay. Mr. Fogarty numbers among his friends the most prominent citizens of this city and his genial manner and his open-hearted hospitality make every acquaintance a friend.

Arthur L. Cannard

Arthur L. Cannard, serving as cashier of the Farmers Exchange Bank at No. 1252 Main street. Green Bay, is one of the many energetic young men of that city, who have risen by their own efforts from minor positions in their present lines of business to responsible offices. Mr. Cannard began his banking career as a messenger and has risen in three years to the position of cashier in one of the most influential banks of Green Bay. He was born in Cavour, South Dakota. July 4, 1886, a son of J. J. and Adolpha Cannard. The father was a native of Brown county and beyond the short time which he spent as a farmer in South Dakota, spent his entire life in the lumber business in Wisconsin. In his family were seven children : Julia, who married John Renmaster. a dry-goods clerk in Green Bay ; Arthur L. : Ada, residing at home; and Walter, Jennie, Minnie and Madeline, all of whom are students in the Green Bay high school.

Arthur L. Cannard received his early education in Cavour, South Dakota, leaving the public schools for business college, from which he was graduated at the age of eighteen years. He immediately became identified with the Farmers Exchange Bank, of which he is the present cashier. His first position with this institution was as bank messenger. He worked his way up rapidly from messenger to bookkeeper, then became teller, then assistant cashier and finally cashier, to which office he was elected in 1909, three years after his first identification with the bank.

Mr. Cannard makes his home at the family residence. No. 820 Irwin avenue, in Green Bay. He is a stanch republican and interested in progressive political affairs, although he never seeks office for himself. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, with which organization he has been connected for some time. He is a member of the Catholic church and holds membership in St. Peter and Paul's Society, affiliated with that religion, and is interested in all church affairs. Mr. Cannard has his business life before him. He is at the present time only twenty-six years of age and has already gained a position in banking circles which might well be envied by a man twice his age. The future of any city is largely in the hands of its young men and in Arthur L. Cannard Green Bay has a worthy type of progressive and enterprising business man who promises to play an important part in its future commercial and financial life.

Albert Zakowsk1

Albert Zakowski, a representative and prosperous agriculturist of Suamico township, is the owner of a farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section 22. His birth occurred in German Poland on the 4th of April, 1861, his parents being Baltarzar and Aggie (Contoski) Zakowski, natives of the same place. The father, who was born in 1820 and followed farming throughout his entire business career, passed away in 1878. The mother, whose natal year was 1818, was called to her final rest in 1882. Unto them were born ten children, as follows : Peter. Anton, Albert, Frank, Joseph, Pauline, Annie, Sophia, Rosie and Ida.

Albert Zakowski attended school in his native country until fifteen years of age and then began learning the tailor's trade. At the end of three years he returned to the parental roof and assisted his father in the operation of the home farm until 1881. In that year, as a young man of twenty, he crossed the Atlantic to the United States and made his way to Chicago, Illinois, where he remained for one year. Subsequently he spent two years as a farm hand in that state and on the expiration of that period came to Wisconsin, settling on a tract of forty acres in Glenmore township, this county, which he purchased from the government. In 1901 he disposed of that property and took up his abode in Suamico township, purchasing the farm of one hundred and twenty acres which he has since operated. I le raises hay, corn, oats, potatoes and cabbage and makes a specialty of dairy products, selling in the local market. On his place are twelve cows, three horses and five hogs. In the pursuit of agriculture he follows modern methods, utilizing the latest improved machinery to facilitate the work of the fields, and his labors are attended with excellent results.

On the 19th of May, 1884. in the township of Eaton, Mr. Zakowski was united in marriage to Miss Katie Yineecski, her father being Albert Vineecski, a farmer of German Poland. Our subject and his wife have nine children, as follows : Stanley, who wedded Miss Paula Trafki and is a machinist residing in Milwaukee ; Mary, who gave her hand in marriage to Leo Mielzarck, a machinist of Milwaukee, by whom she has two children - Frank and Emil ; Julia, who has one child, Mary, and is the wife of Michael Nowazyk, a fisherman of Suamico ; Verona, who gave her hand in marriage to Walter Dombroski, a farmer of Suamico ; John ; Albert ; Ida ; Henry ; and Frank.

In politics Mr. Zakowski is a republican, loyally supporting the men and measures of that party at the polls. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Catholic church at Flintville. Coming to the United States in early manhood, he found the opportunities which he sought and in their utilization has won a place among the substantial and esteemed citizens of his community.

Dr. Ralph M. Carter is one of the most prominent of the younger physicians of Green Bay. He has been practicing medicine in this city since_ July, 1910, and during the short period of his activity has gained a reputation for careful work along surgical lines. He was born in Decatur, Illinois, March 3, 1884, and is a son of J. W. and Idora J. Carter. The father was born in Sullivan, Illinois, from which city he removed to Decatur, where he is following the business of a coal merchant. The family is of English origin and has been founded in America for many generations, its first representative settling in Virginia about the year 1630.

Dr. Carter received his primary education in the public schools of Decatur and was graduated from the high school of that city in 1900. He received his B. A. degree from the University of Illinois in 1905 and was graduated in medicine with the degree of M. D. from Rush Medical College, of Chicago, in 1908. He spent the period between March, 1908, and December of the same year, as interne in the Dunning Insane Asylum, and remained for two years, from December. 1908, to June, 1910, in the Cook County Hospital in Chicago as house physician, and during the month of June, 1910, was house physician at Hinton, West Virginia. The experience which he gained in these different capacities has been a valuable asset to him in his active life as a physician and it has combined with his thorough knowledge of his profession and his undoubted ability to make him one of the most competent members in Green Bay today. He came to this city in 1910 and established his office at 1255 Main street, where he has a large and constantly increasing practice.

Dr. Carter is affiliated with many of the societies connected with his profession and is prominent in the Illinois State Medical Society, the Brown County Medical Association, the Fox River Valley Medical Society and the Wisconsin Medical Association. He also holds membership in the Sigma Nu and the Phi Rho Sigma fraternities and is prominent in the affairs of the Monami Club. He lives at the Sherwood Hotel, in Green Bay, and has gained many warm friends during his short period of residence in this city. His career up to the present time has been distinguished by broad ideas of personal service and by a high standard of medical ethics. His life has just begun but his future, judged by his present point of attainment, will be marked by conspicuous success in his chosen field.

Samuel H. Cady

Samuel H. Cady, an attorney at law of Green Bay, is a native of Sauk county, Wisconsin, born February 4, 1870. Flis family is of English origin and the ancestry is traced back to Nicholas Cady, who came to the new world in 1646. Several members of the family were in the American troops during the Revolutionary war. William C. Cady, the father of our subject, removed from the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts to Wisconsin in 1848 and settled on a farm near Baraboo in 1850. He was a prominent democratic leader of his district and held various offices through a period of thirtyseven years. He died April 29, 191 1, at the age of eighty-nine years, and. was buried near the old homestead. His widow, Mrs. Emogen Cady, still survives.

Samuel H. Cady acquired his primary education in Baraboo and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1891. He then entered the University of Wisconsin and won his Bachelor of Letters degree upon graduation in 1895. In 1897 he was graduated from the law department of the same institution and then came to Green Bay, where he entered into partnership with his brother F. C. Cady. This partnership was maintained until July, 1902, after which Samuel H. Cady practiced alone until 1905, when he was joined by Max H. Strehlow under the firm style of Cady & Strehlow. In 1907 they were joined by Lynn D. Jaseph and then was organized the present firm of Cady, Strehlow & Jaseph. Since coming to Green Bay Mr. Cady has enjoyed gratifying success. He soon demonstrated his ability to handle intricate law problems, and as the years have passed by his clientage has grown in volume and importance, placing him among the foremost lawyers of the city. He has also won for himself a prominent position in financial circles, having been connected with banking interests in Green Bay and elsewhere. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers and Traders Bank at Wrightstown, Wisconsin, of the First National Bank of Seymour,

Wisconsin, and of the Farmers Exchange Bank of Green Bay, and he is now a director of each of these institutions. He is a director of the Security Loan & Guarantee Company of Seymour, of the Wisconsin Casualty Company of Fond du Lac, of the Cady Land Company of Green Bay, of the Astor Company of Green Bay, of the Badger Protective Association, and is president of the Badger Casualty Company of Green Bay and of the Green Bay Barker Company. His business interests aside from his practice are, therefore, extensive and important, and in their management he displays sound judgment, unfaltering energy and keen discrimination.

In political affairs relative to the city, state and country Mr. Cady is deeply interested and is a republican of the La Follette type. In 1898 he was elected district attorney for Brown county and was reelected in 1900. In 1902 he was a candidate of the republican party for congress but was defeated. In 1905 he was appointed by Governor La Follette to prosecute the graft cases pending in Green Bay. In 1909 Governor Davidson appointed him to conduct the grand jury investigation of graft in Marinette county. He served as a Wisconsin delegate to the national republican conventions in Chicago in 1908 and 1912 and stands close to the leaders of his party.

On the nth of May, 1899, in Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. Cady was married to Miss Helen Baker, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. D. Baker, of that city. To Mr. and Mrs. Cady have been born three daughters, Helen, Jessie and Alice. The family reside at No. 920 South Madison street, in a residence which was erected by Mr. Sherwood in 1849 and is one of the old landmarks of the city. Mr. Cady holds membership in the blue lodge of Masons, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Delta Epsilon, a college fraternity. He is also a member and trustee of the Union Congregational church and one of the managers of the Deaconess Sanitarium. He holds to high ideals in life but there is nothing visionary about him. His ability has carried him into important relations, professional, political and social, and in the city of his residence he is spoken of in terms of high regard.

Henry Caelwaerts

Henry Caelwaerts, a substantial agriculturist and esteemed citizen of Suamico township, is the owner of a farm comprising one hundred and twenty acres on section 30 and is busily engaged in its operation. His birth occurred in Howard township, Brown county, on the 9th of October, 1868, his parents being John and Nettie ( Tillie ) Caelwaerts, both of whom were natives of Belgium. The father was born in 1833, while the mother's natal year was 1844. John Caelwaerts came to this county about i860 and took up his abode in the township of Howard, here following genera! agricultural pursuits throughout the remainder of his life. He passed away in 1905. having for a number of years survived his wife, who was called to her final rest in 1896. The period of his residence in this county covered forty-five years and he gained an enviable reputation as a repre-

Henry Caelwaerts attended the district schools of his native township until thirteen years of age and after putting aside his text-books assisted his father in the operation of the home farm throughout the summer seasons, while during the winter months he worked in the woods. In 1894, when a young man of twenty-five years, he .purchased eighty acres of land and started out as an agriculturist on his own account. In 1906 he extended the boundaries of his farm by an additional purchase of forty acres and his place now embraces one hundred and twenty acres on section 30, Suamico township. Ninety acres thereof are cleared of stumps and under cultivation. His property is well improved in every particular and is lacking in none of the conveniences and accessories of a model farm of the twentieth century. In his undertakings as an agriculturist he has been successful, his fields yielding good crops which find a ready sale on the market.

On the 25th of April, 1893, in Howard township, Mr. Caelwaerts was united in marriage to Miss Rose Basteyns, of Suamico township, her parents being Phillip and Louisa (Peters) Basteyns, farming people of that township. Our subject and his wife have three children, namely : Louisa, Alphonso and Bessie. In politics Mr. Caelwaerts is a republican, while his religious faith is that of the Catholic church. He enjoys an extensive and favorable acquaintance in the county where his entire life has been spent and has gained the warm esteem of all with whom he has come in contact.

Adam Spuhler

Honored and respected by all. there is no man who occupies a more enviable position in commercial and financial circles than did Adam Spuhler, not alone by reason of the success which he achieved but also owing to the straightforward, honorable methods which he ever followed. Along commercial lines he gradually worked his way upward until at the time of his death he was recognized as one of the foremost merchants of Green Bay, owning and conducting an extensive dry-goods store. He was born on a farm in the town of Polk, Washington county, Wisconsin, June 19, 1846. a son of Henry and Sarah (Zepp) Spuhler. The father was born in Bavaria and there remained until after his marriage, when he came with his wife to the new world, taking up his abode upon a farm in Washington county, Wisconsin. There he lived until 1867, when he removed to Beaver Dam, Dodge county, where he passed away three years later or in 1870. His widow survived him for ten years, dying in 1880.

Adam Spuhler spent his youthful days on the old homestead in Washington county, pursuing his education during the winter terms of school, while the summer months were devoted to plowing, planting and harvesting. He was thus engaged until fifteen years of age, when in 1861 he left the farm and spent some time in school at Beaver Dam. He then turned his attention to mercantile interests, entering the dry-goods store of Newton & Willard at Beaver Dam. There he remained and when the business was sold in 1865 to Hebgen & Lehrkund he continued with the latter firm as a clerk until 1867. In that year he embarked in business on his own account, forming a partnership with a brother-in-law, Andrew Schluckebier, for the sale of dry goods and clothing. The business was conducted under the firm style of Spuhler & Schluckebier, the firm maintaining its existence until 1873, when the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Spuhler removing to Wrightstown, Brown county. There he formed a partnership with Charles Mueller, with whom he was engaged in the same line of business from 1873 until 1879 under the firm name of Mueller & Spuhler. In that latter year they transferred their business to Green Bay, where they remained as partners until 1886, when the life labors of Mr. Mueller were terminated in death. Mr. Spuhler then continued the business alone, remaining in the retail trade until 1889, when he extended the scope of his activities by establishing a wholesale department, then carrying on business under the firm name of A. Spuhler & Company, Limited. The store is still conducted under that style and the business remains one of the foremost mercantile enterprises of this character in the city. Mr. Spuhler was a very successful merchant and built up the leading dry-goods trade on the east side in Green Bay. He always carried a large and well selected line of goods, including all the latest things that the market afforded, and the straightforward policy which he inaugurated and which has always been one of the features of the house is still maintained.

In 1867, in Dodge county, Wisconsin, Mr. Spuhler was married to Miss Jennie Fardell, a native of England and a daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Bishop) Fardell, who on migrating to the United States settled in Dodge county, Wisconsin, where the father died in 1887, while the mother passed away several years later. Mrs. Spuhler was reared in Dodge county, having been brought to this country in her early girlhood. By her marriage she became the mother of seven children, namely : Sarah, the wife of John Campbell, of Chicago; Nellie, the wife of D. Lucas, of Havelock, Nebraska; Fred; Alice, the wife of Joseph Frisque, of Yakima, Washington; Mabel, the wife of A. J. Holmes, of Green Bay; and Jennie and Louise, both at home. The Spuhler homestead on South Adams street has been occupied by the family for over thirty-two years and was built by Dr. Ward, one of the old settlers. Mr. Spuhler died on the 31st of December, 1907, at the age of sixty-one years, his death resulting from typhoid fever, followed by pneumonia and heart trouble. He was buried in Woodlawn cemetery. His business is still carried on by his heirs under the old name, his son, Fred, being president and his son-in-law, Mr. Holmes, secretary.

Mr. Spuhler voted with the democratic party and was interested in its success because of his firm belief in the worth of its principles as factors in good government. From 1883 until 1887 and again from 1891 until 1897 he served as alderman from the first ward. While in that of- fice he was a stanch advocate of a better and cleaner city and strict enforcement of law and order. He was also a member of the county board of supervisors and was chairman of the financial board. During his service in the council he was chairman or member of the most important committees and acted as president of the council for several years. He was also a trustee of the county asylum for a few years and during his incumbency in office was largely instrumental in placing the Brown county asylum in an enviable position among the institutions of similar character in the state. Fraternally Mr. Spuhler was connected with Washington Lodge, No. 21, F. & A. M., of Green Bay; Warren Chapter, No. 8, R. A. M. ; the Council, No. 13, R. & S. M. ; and Palestine Commandery, No. 20, K. T. As a young man he also held membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and with both the subordinate lodge and the Uniformed Rank of the Knights of Pythias. His religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal church which found him a worthy and faithful member, always endeavoring to conform every act of his life to the teachings of that denomination. Indeed he was a close follower of the Golden Rule and his name became a synonym of honor and integrity not only in business transactions but in other relations as well. His worth was widely acknowledged and most of all by those who were most familiar with his career. In his passing Brown county lost one of its most valued citizens, but many years will come and go ere he is forgotten by those who were his friends while he was still an active factor in the world's work.

Lawrence Basten

Lawrence Basten, who conducts a saloon in Green Bay, was born in Preble township, Brown county, May 10, 1879. His father, John Basten, is a native of Germany, born in Mosel, and he came to America with his parents at the age of seven. Here he grew to maturity and bought land, engaging in general agricultural pursuits in Preble township until his retirement. He is living upon the family homestead and has reached the age of sixty-seven years. His wife was in her maidenhood Miss Catherine Schumacher. They had nine children : Frank, who is farming in Preble township; John, a merchant in New Franken; Hubbard, who is engaged in farming and also conducts a butcher shop and saloon ; Peter, who is in the retail liquor business in Scott township ; Lawrence, of this review ; Jacob, deceased ; Elizabeth, who lives at home ; Joseph, who is engaged in the butcher business ; and Catherine, the wife of Henry Boehm, a cooper of Green Bay.

After completing his education in the public schools of his native section Lawrence Basten engaged in farming and teaming for a number of years. In 1902 he was employed by the Rahr Brewing Company as their agent at Sturgeon Bay and he remained in that capacity for two years. On the 1st of January, 1912, he established himself in the saloon business

Mr. Basten married, in Preble township, Miss Elizabeth Kriescher, a daughter of John P. Kriescher, who came in early pioneer times to Brown county, where he followed farming until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Basten have two children : Harry John, aged ten years ; and Clayton Jacob, aged eight.

The family are devout adherents of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Basten is identified with the Brewers Benevolent Society of Green Bay and belongs to the Royal Arcanum. He also holds membership in the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Sturgeon Bay. His affairs are capably and systematically managed, for he is a shrewd and discriminating business man and displays unusual resourcefulness in carrying forward his interests.

John Basten

John Basten, well known in the business circles of Green Bay as the former proprietor of the Champion Hotel, while at the present writing he is conducting a saloon, was born in Preble township, Brown county, March 19, 1868. His father, Joseph Basten, was a native of Germany, having been born near the Mosel and the Rhine, in the vicinity of Coblenz, whence he came to America with his parents at the age of eleven years. The grandfather was Frank Basten, who. making his way into the interior of the country with his family, settled in Preble township, where he engaged in farming. Joseph Basten became acquainted with this section of the state during the pioneer epoch in its development, meeting with the usual experiences of frontier life. He came to Green Bay when the city was called Three Corners and erected the first building at that location. In it he conducted a saloon and bowling alley and later he carried on general farming in Preble township. However, he afterward returned to Green Bay and conducted a saloon up to the time of his death, which occurred in June, 1908, at the age of sixty-six years. His widow, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Bins, is still living at the age of seventy-four. In the family were ten children : Gertrude, the wife of Theodore Yerhaslt of Antigo, Wisconsin ; Joseph, Jr., living in Humboldt township; John; Mrs. Elizabeth Lehan, of Ashland ; Anna, the wife of William Adrians, of Preble township ; Frank, living in Green Bay ; Cecelia, the wife of George Kiescher, of this city; Christina, the wife of William C. Krieser, of Green Bay; Catherine, at home; and Magdalena, the wife of Gus Schneese, of Green Bay.

In his youthful days John Basten assisted his father in the work of the home farm until twenty years of age, when he started out to earn his own living, being employed for some time by others. At the age of twentythree years he was married and afterward spent two years as an employe in a furniture factory, during which period he carefully saved his earnings until he had a sum sufficient to enable him to engage in business on his own account. He then opened the Chicago Saloon and when he sold that business he became proprietor of the Champion Hotel on Main street, which he conducted successfully for sixteen years. In 1912 he came to his present place of business, conducting a well equipped and modern saloon which is enjoying a good trade.

Mr. Basten married Paulina Mathys, who was born in Preble township, Brown county, and is a daughter of Andrew and Catherine Mathys, both of whom were natives of Belgium. Mr. and Mrs. Basten have become parents of seven children : Andrew, Catherina, Antony, Florence, Arthur, Clarence and Irene, all yet at home. The religious faith of the family is that of the Catholic church and the fraternal relations of Mr. Basten are with the Order of Moose. He takes no active part in politics, having always preferred to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, and his close application and industry have been the foundation of his success.

Mere success has never, except in rare instances, been the reason for any man's holding a position of honor and trust among his fellow citizens. It is rather the qualities of mind and heart of which this success is a result which entitles a man to respect and esteem. A life lived according to the standards of honesty, industry and intelligence almost invariably results in success. A man goes through the world reverencing big things and scorning petty ones, has attained a goal which very few reach. J. I. Helby, secretary of the Badger Protective Association which he organized over ten years ago and of which he has since been secretary and manager, is an example of the truth of these statements. The company in which he holds this responsible position has offices in this city at No. 311-312 Minahan building, and is doing business as a mutual organization. Mr. Helby holds the same position in relation to the Badger Casualty Company, the largest exclusive accident and health company in the state of Wisconsin, which was organized June 11, 1912, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars.