History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              BIOGRAPHY. 959
ities and is actively identified Avith numerous benevolent and fraternal organizations, but more prominently with the Masonic order, in Avhich he has served as a grand officer in the grand lodge of the state.
A Democrat in political faith, he takes an active part in the coun¬ cils and afi'airs of his party and in 1896 was an unsuccessful candi¬ date for congressman. Tavo years later, though again tendered a second nomination by his party, he declined the honor, deciding that his professional work oft'ered ample opportunity for the exercise of his talents and the gratification of his ambition.
Mr. Gruenwald was married on August 30, 1883, to Aliss Bertha Herrmann, of Oshkosh. They have one son, Arthur H., born Alay 20, 1885; is now a student of the Aladison university.
Nelson A. Greenlaw. The father of our subject, Martin Van Buren Greenlaw, a native of Eastport, Maine, was one of the pioneers of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he settled on the south side of the river in 1849, engaged in the lumbering and saw mill business, which he afterAvards followed exclusively. His wife, Amanda (Hurlburt), Avho Avas born in Pennsylvania, died in 1885 at the age of forty-one years. Their son. Nelson A. GreenlaAV, w^as born in Oshkosh, Decem¬ ber 31, 1864. He rece.iA^ed an excellent education in the public schools of his native city, graduating from the high school in 1881. In 1888 he began the abstract business in the office of AA^illiam F. Gruenwald, then abstracter of AVinnebago count}', AAdiich employ¬ ment he continued until January 1, 1903, when he with E. AA^. Thomas, organized the Greenlaw & Thomas Abstract Company, of which he is now the president and manager. Eighteen months later they purchased the abstract books of William F. Gruenwald, and the Winnebago County Abstract Company, and noAv control all the abstract books of the county. During this period, the business of the company has had a steady and remarkable growth,
Mr. Greenlaw is a member of Oshkosh Lodge No. 27, A. P. and A. AL, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, He is a Democrat in political Adews and takes an active interest in local politics.
He was married in 1906 to Mrs. Anna J, Alurray, daughter of the late Evan J. Jones, one of the pioneers of Oshkosh.
Mr. Jones was a native of New York; his widoAV, mother of Airs, Greenlaw, was Beulah A, El}^, also a native of Ncav York, She is still living—1908.
Bernard Charles Gudden, M. D. Of the galaxy of medical men for which this portion of Wisconsin has gained no little fame, is to be found in the front rank if not in the A^erv van, the gentleman