The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
Medical Association, and a member of the Milwau¬ kee Club. Since the retirement of Dr. Senn from Milwaukee, Dr. Mackie has been appointed on the staff of the Milwaukee County Insane Asylum, and has succeeded to the position held by Dr. Senn as surgeon-in-chief to the Milwaukee Hos¬ pital. As assistant to Dr. Senn, whose original and valuable contributions have received the un¬
qualified praise of the entire surgical world. Dr. Mackie has had but litlfle time for original com¬ pilations outside of his associated labors of sur¬ gical investigation, and the demands of a large private practice.
Dr. Mackie married Miss Bella Mitchell, an accomplished lady, a niece of the late Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee.    They have one child.
HON.  EMIL WALLBER,
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
EMIL WALLBER Avas born in Berlin, Prus¬ sia, on April i, 1841, to Julius and Henri¬ etta (Krohn) Wallber, both of whom had lived at Berlin all their lives prior to their immigration to the United States in 1850. In accordance with the custom of that country, where successive generations succeed to position and influence in social and state affairs, the Wallber family held a high place among that class whose co-operation was needful to the government, and to whom was allowed the rights of primogeniture quite as much as though sanctioned by law. Our subject's ancestors were cultivated and refined people, whose prestige has been maintained from time immemorial, and whose traits and characteristics have been preserved in large measure.
Julius Wallber and his wife brought their family to this country in order to secure to them the advantages of a free government. Upon their arrival they settled in New York city, where their tAVO oldest sons attended the public schools. During the last years of his residence there, Emil attended the free academy and there had awakened noble ambitions and high aspirations, and received a most thorough mental training. He had early in life determined to enter the legal profession, and this desire was increased and intensified with the development of his mental powers.
In 1855 be removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he has since made his home. The change was a most happy and fortunate one. He soon afterward began the study of law under the guid¬ ance of Messrs. Winfield Smith and Edward Salomon, both lawyers of high standing. They recognized in their pupil a young man of more than ordinary abilities, who, with  his noble am¬
bitions, strict integrity and wfllingness to pay the cost of success, Avas sure to rise to eminence, and they did everything they could to help him.
In the fall of 1861 Mr. Salomon was elected lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, and when he afterward succeeded Governor Harvey as chief executive of that state, Mr. W^allberwas called to act as his chief clerk during his official term at Madison.
In 1864 Mr. Wallber passed an examination in open court and was admitted to practice in both the state and federal courts, and during the same year Avas appointed assistant attorney general of Wisconsin. At the end of two years' faithful service he returned to Milwaukee and established himself in his profession, and soon gained a repu¬ tation as an able and trustworthy lawyer. In 1873 he was elected city attorney of Milwaukee, and re-elected successively until he declined further nomination in 1878. During the next ten years he served as court commissioner.
In 1880 he Avas strongly urged to becorhe city attorney, but firmly declined. He was elected mayor of Milwaukee in April, 1884, and re-elected in April, 1886. Three years later he was elected judge of the Municipal Court of the city and county of Milwaukee and took his seat in Jan¬ uary, 1890. Aside from the offices named Judge Wallber has been honored with many positions of trust and confidence, and has uniformly discharged their duties creditably to himself and satisfactorily to his constituents. From 1870 to 1873 be served as school commissioner from the sixth w^ard, and during 1871-72 was president of the school board. In 1872 he represented the Sixth Dis¬ trict in the General Assembly and served on im-