lawyer, businessman, politician, b. Milwaukee. He graduated from Milwaukee Academy and Columbia Univ. Law School (1878). He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and set up a practice in Milwaukee. A Republican, he was state assemblyman (1883-1886), and in this capacity introduced the bill placing Milwaukee police and fire commissioners under civil service. After 1899 he devoted most of his time to business and banking. He was president of Friend Brothers Clothing Co., and a director of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., and the Northwestern National Fire Insurance Co., and the National Exchange Bank of Milwaukee. He was co-founder (1890) and president (1895-1912) of the Norberg Manufacturing Co., builders of heavy machinery. Friend was also a founder of the Columbia Hospital and the Visiting Nurse Association in Milwaukee. E. B. Usher, Wis. (8 vols., Chicago, 1914); J. G. Gregory, Hist. of Milwaukee (4 vols., Chicago, 1931); Proc. State Bar Assoc. Wis., 10 (1915).Learn More
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