an attorney and diplomat, cousin of Carl Schurz (q.v.), and fellow expatriate, Jussen came to Wisconsin as a political refugee in 1847. He initially lived hand to mouth in Portage and resided for a time in the household of Count Agoston Haraszthy (q.v.) at Prairie du Sac before opening a general store in Columbus in 1849. After moving to St. Louis he returned in 1853 to Columbus, studied law on his own, married Schurz's younger sister in 1856, and was admitted to the bar in 1859 in Madison, from which place he was elected to the Assembly in 1861. A staunch Republican and anti-slavery advocate, he was appointed colonel of the Wisconsin 23rd Infantry in 1862 and invalided out in 1863 with a lifelong illness. He practiced law in Chicago after the war until being named U.S. consul general in Vienna, Austria, in 1885. He died in Frankfurt, Germany, while en route home to the U.S. in 1891.

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[Source: Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 12 no. 2 (1928): 146-175.]