Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1910 — PEN SKETCHES OF NOTABLE PEOPLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEN SKETCHES OF NOTABLE PEOPLE

Emil Seidel, Milwaukee’s Socialist Mayor.

Emil Seidel, the newly elected mayor of Milwaukee, is a business man of good standing hi the community and has been prominent in the political affairs of the city for some years. In 1008 he was the Socialist nominee for the mayoralty, but was defeated. He has served several terms as aiderman and after his defeat for mayor was chosen alderman at large to fill a vacancy caused by death. Physically Mayor Seidel is a little man, not much over five feet in height and of slight build. His forehead Is high, bls nose prominent, and his. mouth shows firmness and strength. He Is a native of Pennsylvania and forty-five years old; but, while still an Infant, his parents took him to Minnesota. Later his family moved to Milwaukee, and here the future mayor grew up. His education, except what he has given himself, was acquired Iff the public schools. At the age of thirteen he started to learn furniture carving, but later became a patternmaker: At the time of his election he was secretary and treasurer of the Milwaukee Pattern and Manufacturing company. Because of falling health he went to Germany In 1886, remaining abroad six years. On bls return In 1892 he joined the Social Democratic party, in which he has since been active. Congressman Havens of New York. James S. Havens of Rochester, who has just been? elected to congress from the Thirty-second New York district, Is the second Democrat to succeed a Republican in the lower house since the Sixty-first congress convened. He will occupy the seat nfade vacant by the death of James B. Perkins, Republican. Mr. Havens defeated George W. Aldridge, Republican leader of the , district and a power In his party In the Empire State for more than twenty years. ' The new congressman Is a native of the state he represents and is fifty-one years old. He was graduated from 'Yale with high honors In 1884, studied law in Rochester and has practiced his profession since 1887. For more

than five years he was. the partner of the late Representative Perkins, whom he succeeds. Mr. Havens stumped the country for Cleveland in 1888, was an ardent supporter of Roswell P. Flower for governor in 1891 and again for Cleveland for president in 1892. Since that year Mr. Havens has held aloof from the politics of his party, refusing to support William J. Bryan in his campaigns for the presidency or William R. Hearst for governor. Yet in Mr. Havens’ recent campaign for congress against Mr. Aldridge, John D» Lynn, one of Bryan’s most notable adherents in former years, and Mr. Hearst supported Mr. Havens most en-> thusiastically.

JAMES S. HAVENS.