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Pictorial Souvenir
of the
Police Department of
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Harry Wilkinson, Author
1912

Honorable John Dengler
Born in Koenigswart, Austria, on January First, Eighteen Hundred
and forty-nine, Honorable John Dengler, Mayor of La Crosse, at
the age of ten years, was brought to the United States by his parents,
who settled in New York City and for the five years following the future
mayor of this city attended the public schools of the city and succeeded in
mastering the English language.

Born of that sturdy German stock which believes that in hard work and
thrift lies the foundation for future success, young Dengler, at the age of
fifteen, secured employment in a cigar factory in the Metropolis, where he
remained until 1879, when he decided to cast his fortunes with the west.

Early in 1879 he moved to St. Paul where he worked for a short time
in a cigar factory. Mr. Dengler saw opportunities in the manufacturing
field of La Crosse, so in 1880 he moved to this city and became superintendent
of a cigar factory until 1885, when he embarked in business for
himself. He developed a large business and now holds a prominent place
in the city's many factories.

Mr. Dengler has been affiliated with the Republican party since attaining
his majority, and has been prominently identified with the party in this
city and county for many years. In 1889 he was elected Mayor of La
Crosse and it was during this administration that the magnificent bridge
across the Mississippi river and the new city hall were built. He has always
advocated public improvements when the condition of the city treasury
would permit, but rarely ever championed the cause of running the municipality
in debt.

For fourteen years he was member of the Police and Fire Commission,
resigning from that office when called to the mayor's chair again in 1911.

As mayor of La Crosse, Mr. Dengler is also head of the Police and
Fire Departments, and it has been his constant aim to keep these departments,
as well as others under his immediate supervision, up to a high
standard.

No better evidence of a man's social and business standing in a community
can be collected than a record of the positions of trust placed in
his hands by his fellow men and Mayor Dengler's record in this connection
is certainly one to be proud of.
In spite of the fact that Mr. Dengler is one of the busiest men in the
city, he finds time to take an active interest in anything which pertains to
a greater and bigger La Crosse, and still has enough time to avoid neglecting
his friends. The secret of his success is that he does things with a
push and vim and never puts off until tomorrow what can be done today.

Mayor Dengler is not what might be termed in the strict sense of the
word, a politician or a partisan. He is broad in his views on political
matters, as well as in other things and is without doubt one of the most
popular officials ever elected in La Crosse.
The Mayor has a very genial disposition. He is pleasant to meet
gracious to all and makes friends easily.

Author's Notes
In presenting this handsome souvenir to the public, the
author, on behalf of the members of the La Crosse Police Department,
individually and collectively, desires to thank all
who have so liberally contributed through the advertising
pages, his making this publication possible.

No efforts have been spared to make this souvenir a work of
art, special attention being paid to its value as an advertising
medium for the city of La Crosse and its various industrial enterprises.

Despite repeated accusations from unreliable and prejudiced
sources, the publication is not merely a money making scheme
for the author. It is published for the purpose of replenishing
the treasury of the Policemens Pension Fund, and no one will
deny that this is a most worthy institution. It might be well
to add that the best of material and workmanship has been
placed in this book, hence the author received a compensation
so small that few persons would be willing to undertake the
task at twice the price

It should be remembered that a police officer virtually gives
up his entire time to the protection of citizens and their
property, denying themselves the many little social pleasures
usually enjoyed by others and for this reason the relations
between the citizen and the uniformed office who walks the
beat, or the plain clothes man who is sent on investigations,
should be most cordial. Friction destroys the usefulness of a
police department, and none exists in La Crosse or any other
well regulated city.
Harry Wilkinson, Author

List of Subscribers
Ansamch & Cramee
Artic Ice & Fuel Co.
Robert Braun
F.M. Bronson & Son
Bright's Livery Stable
William Boyle
A.J. Butler
Gus Bauch
Continental Clothing Co.
W. Dittman
Charles N. Euhler
O. Egstad
Fosten Hardware Co.
Frank Farnham
J.W. Goddard
G.C. Glass
L.M. Goddard
Hettinger & Young
E. Haller
Hoeschler Bros.
C. Haraldsrud
Steve Johnimick
C. Jacobus
R. Jacob
John Koller
J.P. Knutson
Olaf Larson
D. Larson
W. Luening
J.F. Lapitz
La Crosse Stove Co.
A.G. Murphy
O. Molsted
Zack Moss
Modern Steam Laundry
Charles W. Noble
Felix Newburg
L. Natenshon & Co.
Barney Olson
F.L. Pierce
F.A. Reiman
H. Raetzman
George B. Rose
B. Ruesgen
Star Knitting Mills
H.M. Singer
Chafer, Pierce & Co.
S. Sundelm
O.Simmson
O.J. Sorenson
J.L. Starr
C.B. Stevens
Charles Spettel
Fred Wehren
Wisconsin Pearl Button Co.
Wile Bros.
S.P. Welch
T.C. Weisbecker
Wear-U-Well Shoe Co.

Mayor
John Dengler

John B. Webber, Chief of Police
Do JUST a little more than you are paid to do" is the motto of John
B. Webber, Chief of Police of La Crosse, and to this motto can
be traced the splendid success which has followed him from
the time he left the farm to become a bell boy in a hotel, up to the present time.

Mr. Webber was born on a farm in La Crosse County. Wisconsin.
March 2, 1867, being the oldest of ten children born to his parents. Until
1882 he remained on the farm assisting his father to till the soil that the
large family might be provided for and this, necessarily, curtailed his common
school opportunities.

Deciding to strike out for himself that he might become acquainted with
the ways of the world, and in search of "book" knowledge, young Webber
packed up his belongings and came to La Crosse in the spring of 1882.
He applied for a position as bell boy at the old Cameron house, but the
proprietor informed him he was "too small."

"Give me a trial," said young Webber, "and if I don't suit you can
discharge me. If the job don't suit me, I will give you sufficient notice
before I quit." He got the job.

After three years work in that position young Webber had saved a
little money out of his earnings, so decided to attend school, but after one
Winter at school his father became ill and the young man was compelled,
to leave school to return to the farm and give further assistance in providing
for the large family.

Returning to La Crosse some time later, young Webber worked at
different trades, his first insight to police work being when he was appointed
barn watchman for the street railway company.

In 1890, when H. H. Burns was appointed Chief of Police of La
Crosse, Mr. Webber was selected to take his place as special agent for
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, which position
he held until September 1, 1898, when the Board of Police and Fire
Commissioners appointed him a desk sergeant on the police force.

Merit, safe judgment and good common sense charactered every official
move of Sergeant Webber and on October 20, 1907, he was appointed
Chief of Police, succeeding the late H. H. Burns.

Chief Webber has the reputation of doing things and of doing them at
the right time. Quick to see and to determine, he never hesitates to do
what he thinks is right. He does not waiver when he thinks it is time to
act, but does things with a vim and determination that commands admiration.

A brief talk with Chief Webber assures one that he is the right man in
the right place - a modest man, a beloved superior and a faithful public
servant.

Chief Webber has made the men in his department feel that he knows
all about their official acts, and every man must do his duty or he is replaced
by one who will do so. He is a firm believer of treading the
"straight and narrow path" of truth and honesty, and is always ready to
hear the two sides of every story. One's first impression of him is that he
is a man who accomplishes things without the blare of a trumpet.

While a young man struggling for a place in the business life of La
Crosse, Mr. Webber was united in marriage to Methilda Margaret
Koops, and three children have graced the union. He is a lover of home
life and is devoted to his family. He delights in the companionship of his
wife and children to whom he gives his every spare moment.

The severe strain of business caused Chief Webber suffer a nervous
breakdown last fall, but he is on the road to rapid recovery. He is
a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Wisconsin
Chiefs of Police Association, and of several fraternal organizations.

Chief of Police
Jno B. Webber

LAWRENCE DUGAN was born in the township of Brownsville,
Houston County. Minnesota, March Ninth, Eighteen Hundred and
Sixty. Although opportunities of his youth were limited, he attended
public school in his native village where he grew up under the guidance
of his parents.

Being one of a large family, young Dugan began work at an early age
and contributed his earnings toward the support of that family, attending
school only when occasion presented itself.

In 1888, after the death of his father, Captain Dugan moved with his
mother and other members of the family to La Crosse, securing employment
with a bridge gang on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
which vocation he followed until appointed a patrolman on the local police
force.

A modest, level-headed and impassive sort of an official is Captain
Dugan. No excitement disturbs him; tears of penitence seem not to detract

him from his path of duty, whatever it may be. Calm and imperturbable he
goes about his duties as he sees them, and it is due to these attributes that
Mr. Dugan was advanced direct from the ranks to the Captaincy.

The first police star was pinned on Mr. Dugan's coat on April 17,
I894. He is a capable officer, discharged his duties so efficiently and had
made such a clean record for himself that when the position of Captain
was open he was quickly decided upon as the proper man for the place.
He was appointed to this position, which is the second highest in the department,
on August 6, 1909.

Captain Dugan is respected and revered by the entire department and the
writer only speaks the sentiment of the members of the force when he says:
Long life and prosperity to Captain Dugan.

No home life in La Crosse is more beautiful than that of Captain Dugan.
On September 6, 1889, he was married to Miss Nellie Conway. of La
Crosse, and three children have graced that union.

SERGEANT S. S. POST

THEN. as Shakespeare says, "Good things of day begin to droop
and drowse, it takes a cool-headed and capable man to guide the
destinies of the police department of any large city and La Crosse
is fortunate in having just such a man in the person of Sergeant S. S.
Post, who has charge of the police force during the night season at which
time law breakers and wrong-doers most frequently show their hands.

Sergeant Post was born in Huron County, Ohio, September 2. 1843,
and when quite an infant was taken by his parents to Branch County Michigan,
thence to La Crosse County, Wisconsin, in 1855.

His early years were spent on the farm, assisting his father with the
work, but after the death of both parents in 1879, Mr. Post came to La
Crosse where he secured work at various times in a saw mill, grocery clerk
and was for a while night watchman for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway.

He was appointed a patrolman on the police force on June 30, 1889,
and appointed Sergeant December 18, 1897

Sergeant Post is a faithful official and is revered and respected by fellow
members of the force and the citizens in general.

Captain Lawrence Dugan
Sergeant Sheldon S. Post


John W. Taylor

ONE OF the oldest and most efficient members of the police department
Detective John W. Taylor, the subject of this sketch, has
a record for faithfulness and fair dealings that most men could not
refrain from envying. Ever alert to the enforcement of the law and performing
the duties laid out for him, Mr. Taylor long ago secured the absolute
confidence of his superiors, and he is regarded as authority on most everything
pertaining to criminology.

Mr. Taylor was born at Galena, Ill., May 27, 1850, moving to La
Crosse September 19, 1881. Prior to that time he had "steamboated"
along the Mississippi as cook on tow and passenger boats, following the
vocation of mining during the winter months.

For quite a while he was in charge of the Bluff quarry, as he is an
expert quarryman, and later engaged in the hotel business, conducting what
was known as the Mill Street House.

He was appointed a patrolman on the local force on March 12, 1887,
walking a beat for ten years, when he was elevated to the rank of detective,
which position he now holds. He was married early in life and nine
children, five of whom are living, graced the union.

John Coady

NOT ONLY the oldest police officer from point of service, but in
age as well, John Coady, retired detective, is also the oldest living
resident of La Crosse, having come to this city when it was a mere
village in 1853. He has resided here continuously since that time.

Mr. Coady, at the age of 15, with his parents, journeyed overland from
Chicago to La Crosse with an ox team, their first halting place in this city
Being on the site of the present beautiful Oak Grove cemetery. There was
only one grave in the cemetery then - that of David Darst, who was murdered
in 1852 by William Walts.

Mr. Coady followed different vocations until 1862 when he was elected
City Marshall. holding this position until 1869, when he accepted work
with the C. L. Coleman Lumber Co.

In 1885 Mr. Coady returned to the police force, remaining until 1909,
When he was retired to the pension list.

He is one of La Crosse's most popular citizens, being well liked and
revered by all who know him. This is attested to by the fact that, on the
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his marriage, his good wife and
himself were showered with gold coin and golden emblems by their host
of friends


DETECTIVES
John Coady
John Taylor


DECTECTIVES
Joseph McGrath
William Fitzsimmons


PATROLMEN
Dan Dineen
Alois Yehle


PATROLMEN
M. Britton
Wm. Horschak


PATROLMEN
C. O. Denison
Sam Johnson


PATROLMEN
Frank Wolfe
J. P. Wendling


PATROLMEN
T. J. McDonough
Frank L. Groeshner


PATROLMEN
Emil Last
August H. Koschnitzke


PATROLMEN
William Ritter
Louis Jahnke


PATROLMEN
Wm. Wermuth
Fred Yehle


CITY OFFICIALS
1. Nathan Bradfield, Fire Chief
2. F. J. Killian, Electrical Inspector
3. A. H. Schubert, City Attorney
4. John H. Forrer, Supt. Of Parks
5. J. M. Furstman, M.D., Commissioner of Health
6. P. J. McCanley, Assessor
7. C. C. Hamilton, Assessor


REPORTERS AND BOARD PUBLIC WORKS
1. Irvine H. Tuteur, Reporter
2. James T. Day
3. Arthur Worth, Reporter
4. Geo. Falk
5. H. B. Robertson, Reporter
6. Fred Schnell


ALDERMEN
1. Wm. Collins
2. H. J. Roth
3. Martin Rybold
4. George Bedessem
5. Joseph Bartl
6. P. C. Casberg
7. Joseph Houska
8. George B. Marvin, Jr.
9. W. P. Roellig
10. J. Schneeberger, Jr.
11. Paul Mahoney


ALDERMEN
1. Frank Kohn
2. Otto Granke
3. E. O. Schultz
4. Frank G. Roth
5. Wm. H. Tarbox
6. Wm. Torrence
7. Edw. Newmann
8. J. F. Downs
9. B. C. Smith
10. Adam Kroner


City Hall and Police Headquarters


La Crosse, the City Beautiful of Wisconsin
By Harry Wilkinson

LA CROSSE, the City Beautiful of Wisconsin,
endowed, as it is, with great wealth, energy, progression
and substantial homes, has, through its sturdy
sons of commerce, many opportunities to offer to
the prospective investor in search of a suitable manufacturing
location or a desirable home site. Seen
by the eye of a stranger, this city is a veritable park
in itself and few of the residents scarcely realize what natural beauty surrounds
them.

Situated on the east bank of the Mississippi river with the verdant
slopes and hills of Minnesota for a western background and the high,
wooded knolls of Wisconsin to the east, La Crosse city presents a spectacle
of beauty wondrous to behold, while from all angles can be seen
the towering smokestacks belching forth the tidings of industry and thrift,
which sends a message to the outside world that La Crosse is doing things
and is able and capable of doing still greater things.

This city has a just claim to being the greatest beauty spot on the
Father of Waters, its numerous parks and pleasure grounds making it
second to none as a summer resort, while no city in the country is more
healthful, or presents more advantages as an inducement for outsiders
to come and make their permanent home here.

Levee Park, the newest addition to the city's beauty, has a frontage
on the river of half a mile, with a width of from 400 to 85 feet. One
of the features of this park is a magnificent band stand costing $20,000
from which concerts are given during the summer afternoons and evenings.
The total cost of creating this park was close to $100,000.

Surrounding the city are numerous fertile farms which gives an adequate
supply of fresh vegetables, barn yard and dairy products at
prices ridiculously low, while the splendid facilities for moving freight,
supplied by five railroads and several steamboat lines, enables this city
to reduce the cost of living far below the average cost of most cities of
its size.

Although farm lands in western Wisconsin are ridiculously low, compared
with land in surrounding states, the crop yield is second to none in
the entire United States, and the reason given for existing prices is that
the owners have become rich from tilling the soil and are selling out their
holdings and moving into La Crosse that they may live in comfort and
ease for the remainder of their lives. There is not an acre of farming
land in this section of the country that is not a rare bargain and investors
are gradually becoming to realize this fact and are buying in thousands
of acres as an investment.

La Crosse city property is not high when compared with prevailing
prices in other cities and, as the city is gradually growing by the numerous
addition of large factories and wholesale houses, real estate at most
any price within one mile of the present city limits, is regarded as a good
buy.

Going back as far as 1836, meager history, scraped here and there,
gives first mention of the site of La Crosse, but it was left to Nathan
Myrick to brave the possibilities of death at the hands of hostile Indians
and became the first white settler of La Crosse in February. 1842.

Mr. Myrick was an Indian trader with headquarters at Prairie du
Chien and would "pole" a bateau from that point to the site of La


(LACROSSE, THE CITY BEAUTIFUL OF WISCONSIN - Continued)

Crosse, trading food, ammunition, blankets and trinkets to the semi-friendly
Winnebago Indians for furs, etc. Mr. Mynick built a log house
at the present corner of Front and State streets, residing there with his
family until 1848. when he removed to St. Paul. During the interim
he acquired much land in and about La Crosse, some of which is still
retained by his heirs.

When Myrick first saw the site of the present La Crosse he described
it as a "point filled with sand and sand burs," but he saw great possibilities
for a great city because of its peculiar topographical situation
and well did he prophesy.

Other families followed the Myrick family in quick succession and
by 1850 there was quite a settlement in La Crosse. It had become a
prominent trading post and forged rapidly to the front. Urged by
progression, a railroad extended its lines to this city, having its terminus
on the Minnesota side of the river. Others came to bid for a portion
of the trade from the lumber industry, because this city had gradually
become a great lumber center. Saw mills jotted the village here and
there, while the rivers were constantly clogged with logs, floated from
above to feed the numerous saw mills.

It was during this era that many poor men became towers of wealth
through the lumber industry, the fruits of their efforts being mainly responsible
for the great La Crosse of today. They made their fortunes
here and kept their money here through investments.

Years of chopping soon exhausted the supply of logs in this section
but no sooner did the huge steel-teethed discs of the saw mill cease to
buzz before other and equally as important industries stepped in to
supply the vacancy. One by one the industries, attracted by the many
natural advantages and inviting offers of local capitalists, began to come
in until today La Crosse has 125 flourishing industries employing more
than 10,000 hands, with an annual output of $20,000,000.

Among the articles manufactured in La Crosse are the following:
Plows, printographs, drills, flour, chocolates, pearl buttons, seeds,
crackers, stoves, ranges, beer, wagons, clipless paper fasteners, rubbers,
ink erasers, tin pails, brooms, shingle stain, bridge work, sash, doors,
blinds, office fixtures, altars, church decorations, shoes, clothing, automobile
fittings and accessories, tools, dies, knit goods, overalls, monuments,
mattresses, springs, cigars, signs, soap, camp stoves, potato sprayers,
potato diggers, paper boxes, cream separators, boilers, engines,
furniture, steel tanks, ornamental iron and wire work, carriages, spices,
gloves, mittens, hosiery, violins, blank books, candies, hats, cigar boxes,
leaf tobacco, engravings, meat products, banana crates, rugs, feed,
cooperage, tents, awnings, stamp vending machines, hammocks, telephone
supplies, corrugated ceilings, steel roofing, Leona garments, patent medicines,
brushes, carbonated beverages, fruit extracts, flavors, brick, pure
foods, ice cream, coke, cornices, engines, castings, rubber stamps,
trunks and woolen goods.

Made-in-La Crosse goods find their way to all parts of the globe
and this city is looked upon as one of the growing manufacturing centers
of the United States.

But Progressive La Crosse is not content to stop at this. Her enterprising
boosters want more factories or any kind of industries that
will help swell the bank clearings and add to the population, and are
ready to offer most any kind of an inducement consistent with conservative
business methods in order to get new blood into the local commercial
market.

There is not now, nor has there ever been what might be called a
"boom" in La Crosse. The city's growth has been steady, but substantial
and those who are now here do not regret that they came.
No sooner had they landed before they, too, became La Crosse boosters
and so it goes, from day to day, the old and the young, singing
praises of La Crosse, the city of progression and modern methods.

Facts about the city of La Crosse may be summed up as follows:

(LACROSSE, THE CITY BEAUTIFUL OF WISCONSIN -- Continued)

La Crosse was incorporated as a city in 1856, and now has a population
of 31,000 and growing rapidly. The city has an assessed valuation
of $21,664,277, with a tax rate of 20 mills; has nearly 40 miles
of sewers and 70 miles of water mains, with 50 miles of paved streets.

La Crosse has seven parks and two public play grounds, comprising
400 acres; it has a normal school, an agricultural college, one high
school, eleven graded schools, ten parochial schools, two business colleges,
a public library and branch with 20.000 volumes, fifty-five
churches, four hospitals, four theatres, five railroads, a navigable outlet
through the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico, a splendid street
car system, as finely equipped police and fire department to be found
in the entire country, has low rates of insurance, three daily papers,
two semi-weekly and five weekly papers and four monthly magazines
and owns and operates its own water works and its artesian wells furnish
a plentiful supply of excellent drinking water.

Safety, service, satisfaction, are the cardinal principles of banking
and the six banks of La Crosse furnish all three of these. They extend
to their customers every courtesy consistent with conservative banking,
and this has given them a reputation for reliability that is doubtless
envied by banking institutions of other cities. Financial storms and
panics have come and gone, hitting hard many of the banks throughout
the country, but the local institutions have successfully weathered
every storm, by at all times having a sufficient supply of ready cash
on hand to supply all needs and demands. The La Crosse banks are
fairly bulging with money, having in deposits over ten million dollars.
The surplus and undivided profits of these banks amounts to $626,000,
while the loans and discounts aggregate $6,320,000.

La Crosse has many wholesale houses, but wiseacres of business declare
there is a splendid opening here for a crockery jobbing house, a
glass jobbing house, a notion jobbing house, a dry goods jobbing house
and all kinds of factories and manufacturing industries, both large and
small. La Crosse is ever alert to the needs of its thousands of patrons,
extending for over 100 miles into Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and the
Dakotas, and it is to supply the demands of this rich and fertile section
that so strong an invitation is extended to prospective investors to come to
La Crosse and get acquainted. Progression seems to be the watchword the
country over, so come to La Crosse and be a Progressive.

To show just how strong the progressive spirit of this city is, it
may be said, and with pardonable pride, too, that this handsome souvenir
was published without the aid or consent of the Board of Trade,
or any other similar organization, The incentive came from the minds
of the officers and members of the Policemen's Pension Fund Association
who, although discouraged in the effort by a few of the less
wide-awake, public spirited men, went ahead with the work, receiving
the encouragement and financial support of the progressive element,
men who wished to see a bigger and better La Crosse and backed up
this desire with substantial contributions for the publication of this book.
To all those who assisted in this work is tendered the hearty thanks
of the Policemen's Pension Fund Association, and, although no great
amount of profit is left over from the sale of advertising space, it is
expected that its appearance will create an awakening of public spirit
in those whose energies have lain dormant and induce them to purchase
these books and send them broadcast as the best advertisement the city
of La Crosse ever had.


Fourth Street Showing Postoffice and Stoddard Hotel


View of La Crosse's Beautiful Water Front

La Crosse is justly proud of its beautiful water front, which extends for more than one mile along the east bank of the Mississippi river. Here is shown many of the larger manufacturing industries, the steamboat wharves
And the high bridge across the Father of Waters, which connects Wisconsin with Minnesota.

Just recently completed, and not shown in this view, is a lovely park along the water front, which adds ten fold to the beauty of the scene.


Churches

1. Christ Church
2. St. Annes Church
3. St. James Church
4. First Methodist Church


John A. Salzer Seed Company


Churches

1. German Evangelical Lutheran
2. Bethany Congregational
3. St. Mary's Catholic
4. St. Paul's Norwegian Lutheran


Deceased Members of the Force

Captain John Parks
Captain John Parks was born in Chautauqua
County, New York, November 2, 1843.
Police Force, April 13, 1881 and evaluated to
the captaincy on September 15, 1884. He was
taken suddenly ill on June15, 1909, and died
within twelve hours. He is survived by a
widow Mrs. Mary A. Parks, who resides at 318
North Seventh St. and who is now drawing a
Pension from the Policemen's Pension Fund.

Hugh Henry Byrne
Hugh Henry Byrne, was born at Shullsburg,
Wisconsin, February 29, 1874, and learned
the trade of machinist and engineer and
worked in the capacity until he was appointed
a patrolman March 1, 1879. He was chief of
detectives for the C. M. & St. P. Ry., from 1881 to 1890
and on October 10, 1890, he was appointed Chief of Police
of the city of La Crosse and held this office up to the
time of his death, which occurred October 14, 1907. He
was the sixth chief of police, and held the office seven
years longer than any other chief.

Paul Jefti
Paul Hefti, was born at Canton glarous.
Switzerland, Junde 25, 1852, and emigrated to
America in 1871, and located on a form in
Vernon County, Wisc., he came to La Crosse
about a year later. He was appointed a patrolman
March 1, 1886, later was promoted for
Night Sergeant which position he held for
some time but, but on account of his health, he
was assigned to day duty as a patrolman. He died
September 6, 1911. He was the oldest officer in service
and had carried Star No. 1 for a number of years.


Churches
1. First Baptist
2. St. Paul Universalist
3. First Presbyterian
4. St. Josephs Cathedral


C. and J. Michael Brewery


Franz Bartl Brewery


View of Bryant-Sisson Company Building


Fifth Street Showing Coleman Lumber Co. and La Crosse Club


La Crosse Police Force in 1884


La Crosse Police Force on Taft Day


Listman Mill Company Plant


G. Heilmann Brewery


John Gund Brewery


1. La Crosse Telephone Company Building
2. Elks Club and Law Auto Company
3. Y. M. C. A. Building


Public Buildings
1. Public Library
2. County Court House
3. County Jail
4. High School