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Carl H. Juergens, who has been successfully engaged in general law practice in Milwaukee for the past eight years. is numbered among the able representatives of the profession in this city. His birth occurred in Davenport, Iowa, on the 19th of May, 1884, his parents being Charles A. and Minnie H. (Knappe) Juergens. The father, a native of Schleswig-Holstein, emigrated to America when a youth of eighteen years and settled at Davenport, Iowa, where he engaged in the harness business and subsequently turned his attention to the flour jobbing trade.

Carl H. Juergens, who was a little lad of about five years when brought by his parents to Milwaukee, acquired his early education in the public schools and his more advanced training in the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1909. Four years later he received the degree of LL. B. from that institution on the completion of a course in law. During the interim he taught in the West Division high school for two years. He was admitted to the bar on the 18th of June, 1913, and entered upon the active work of his profession in Milwaukee. With the exception of the first year, which he spent in association with the firm of Schmitz, Wild & Gross, he has here since practiced Independently, with offices at No. 431 Twelfth street. He has been accorded an extensive and Important clientage of a general character, largely commercial law cases, and is widely recognized as an attorney of pronounced ability and deserved success. He is a director of several corporations and is serving as secretary of the Vliet Street Advancement Association.

In 1919 Mr. Juergens was united in marriage to Miss Nora Toepfer of Madison, Wisconsin, and they have become parents of a son, Richard Carl, whose birth occurred December 3, 1920. The family residence is at No. 535 Fifty-first street.

Mr. Juergens took an active part in all war activities during the recent world conflict, serving as a member of the legal advisory board and doing splendid work in all the drives and also on the County Council of Defense. He was captain of his district in the nineteenth ward. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, holding membership in Park Lodge No. 177, of which he is a past chancellor. He is also a well-known member of the Milwaukee Athletic Club and in the line of his profession is connected with the Milwaukee County Bar Association. In motoring he finds needed rest and recreation. His record as a lawyer has won him recognition among the leading young representatives of the profession in Milwaukee, his course as a citizen has been characterized by public-spirited devotion to the general good and in social circles he has gained the warm regard and friendship of all who know him.