Brown County, Wisconsin Biographies

Lem Warner Bowen
Source: "The Book of Detroiters". Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, 1908 - Submitted by Christine Walters

BOWEN, Lem Warner, treasurer and general manager D.M. Ferry & Co.; born, Green Bay, Wis., (Brown Co) July 12, 1857; son of Charles Clark and Julia M. (Hard) Bowen; educated in public schools of Detroit; Kalamazoo (Mich.) College (freshman year); entered sophomore class University of Rochester and was graduated, A.B., 1879; married at Rochester, May 10, 1881, Grace M. Woodbury. Came to Detroit after leaving college, 1879, and entered employ of D.M. Ferry & Co., seedsmen; was elected treasurer, 1887, and general manager, 1900, which positions he has since held. Also president Cadillac Motor Car Co.; president Standard Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Detroit, Mich., vice president Security Trust Co.; director Edison Illuminating Co., Michigan Savings Bank. President Detroit Board of Commerce. Republican as to politics. Clubs: Detroit, Country, Old Club. Recreation: Traveling. Office: D.M. Ferry & Co. Residence: 54 Peterboro St.

Arthur Christofferson
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Liz Dellinger

CHRISTOFFERSON Arthur. St Paul. Res 1800 Carroll st Merriam Park, office 614 Endicott bldg. Lawyer. Born Jan 14, 1877 in De Pere Brown County Wis, son of Hans and Bertha (Hason) Christofferson. Graduated at Hudson Wis High School 1895; law dept U of M, LL B 1901; LL M on post-graduate course. In service of N P Ry Co from office boy to chief clk 1896-1902. Night course in law at U of M. V pres Nason-Christofferson Co; practicing law in St Paul 1902 to date. Member Commercial, Norden, Roosevelt Republican and Minnesota Boat clubs St Paul. Masonic fraternity.

Thomas Greene
Little Sketches of Big Folks in Minnesota (Publ. 1907) Transcribed by Nancy Overlander

Greene Thomas, Minneapolis. Res Hotel Plaza, office Soo bldg.. Railroad official. Born Marh 25, 1865 in Green Bay Wis, son of Platt and Sophia (WHyler) Greene. Married July 12, 1894 to Harriet May Khase. Educated in the common and high schools Green Bay Wis. First entered engineering dept of Milwaukee & Norther R R 1884-89; with C & N W R R 1889-90; with Soo R R 1890 to date; chief engineer of same since 1898. Member of Commercial Club.

William Henry Norris
Source: Progressive men of Minnesota. Published by The Minneapolis Journal (1897) submitted by Diana Heser Morse

William Henry Norris was born at Hallowell, Maine, July 24, 1832. His father was Rev. William Henry Norris, a Methodist clergyman for fifty years, who died in 1878. Rev. Mr. Norris shared the lot of itinerant ministers, living for different periods in Brooklyn and in New Haven, and in 1839, at the age of thirty-four, going to South America in charge of Methodist missionary churches. During this time he was located in Montevideo and Buenos Ayres. He endured the privation of a missionary's life and never had a salary beyond a thousand dollars. He was able, however, to afford his children a liberal education. He was descended from a family of Irish farmers, who settled in New Hampshire about 1750. The subject of this sketch attended no school until past fifteen years of age, receiving his early education at the hands of his father. He then fitted for college at Dwight's High School, in Brooklyn, and in 1850 entered Yale college, where he graduated in 1854 as valedictorian of his class. While he was in college he was a member of Linonia, Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa societies. After leaving college he taught school a year at Marmaroneck, New York. He then took part of the law course at Harvard University. A year later he came West and settled in Green Bay, Wisconsin; continued his studies in the law office of James H. Howe, and in 1857 was admitted to the bar. He remained with Mr. Howe until 1862. The next ten years he carried on his law practice alone. He was then associated professionally with Thomas B. Chynoweth for six years, and subsequently with E. H. Ellis. Twenty-three years were spent in the practice of law at Green Bay. During the greater part of this time Mr. Norris was local attorney of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, and for six years attorney for the Green Bay & Minnesota railroad, now the Green Bay & Western. These engagements led him to make a specialty of railroad law. He moved to Minneapolis in 1880, and opened an office for general practice. In January, 1882, he was selected by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company as its state solicitor. In his trial of claims and in all his practice in behalf of his railroad clients he has been highly successful, having, in several cases, advised his clients to disregard acts of the legislature as unconstitutional, contentions upon which the court has, in each case, ruled in his favor. In politics he is a Republican, but does not always vote the entire ticket selected by his party. He is a member of all the Masonic orders, and a member of Plymouth Congregational church. He was married at Green Bay in 1859 to Hannah B. Harriman, daughter of Joab Harriman, a ship builder of Waterville, Maine. They have three children, Louise, wife of Alfred D. Rider, of Kansas City; Georgia and Harriman.

Herman & Rosalie Raymakers
La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, Wis.) 8 Mar. 1905; submitted by Diana Heser Morse

DIVORCED AT SEVENTY-FIVE
Green Bay, Wis., March 8 --- Herman Raymakers, aged 75 years, was yesterday granted a divorce from Rosalie Raymakers, aged 73, on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. They were married in 1903.