Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Frederick Augustus JOSS
Frederick A. JOSS : Senator Joss, of Indianapolis, stands among the foremost of the prominent young Republicans of Indiana. His services to the party, especially in the vicinity of Marion county, have been efficient and valuable and have been in part rewarded by his election to his present office as State Senator. Few men take a more active part in all campaigns and few accomplish more in their work for the success of Republican principles. Mr. Joss is a man of strong character and of great individuality. His opinions are the result of individual thought and the resulting actions are independent.
Frederick Augustus Joss was born at Centerville, St. Joseph county, Michigan, May 5th. 1867. His father, John C. Joss, was a manufacturer and was for sixteen years Clerk of St. Joseph county. John C. Joss was born at Antwerp, Belgium. of German parents, who were forced to live there for political reasons. He was a student at the universities of Halle and Heidelberg and came to this country just before the outbreak of the Civil War. He served four years in the Union army and was during that time promoted from private to Captain, losing his left leg on the third day of the Battle of the Wilderness, he had been definitely settled upon by the Garfield administration for the ConsulGeneralship to Frankfort-on-the-Main, when he was killed in a railroad accident at Niles, Michigan the point where he left the cars upon coming to America before the war. He left his family a considerable estate. The mother of Senator Joss, Mary Moore Merrell, belonged to the wellknown Beardsley and Norton families of :few York State, and was an educated and cultured lady, whose chief aim and purpose in life was the education of her sons.
When we were divorced from Johnson and married to Marion county for senatorial representatives, Frederick Augustus Joss floated to the top and was nominated and elected by the Republican party in 1898.
He is citizen of the capital, a young, enthusiastic stalwart, who had the honor in the Statute of putting in nomination Albert J. Beveridge - the fleet-footed orator of Indiana - for United States senator. After the election of Charles A. Bookwalter to the mayoralty of Indianapolis,
Mr. Joss was made city attorney, which position he now holds. He is a lover of politics and a useful member of the Republican organization, and has a bright future before him.
Senator Joss received his early education in the common schools and high school of Centerville, the Ann Arbor high school, and the preparatory department of the University of Michigan. He entered the university in 1885.
After spending a year in a mining venture in Canada, Mr. Joss came to Frankfort, this State, and read law with the Hon. S. O. Bayless. He practiced law in Frankfort until July 12, 1842. On an offer of employment by his present law partner, Ovid B. Jameson, he came to Indianapolis. In January, 1895, the present law partnership of Jameson & Joss was formed.
In 1891 Mr. Joss was married to Miss Mary Q. Hubbard, of Wheeling, West Virginia. They have two children, Mary Hubbard and Luciana Hubbard Jose. Mr. Joss is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of America.
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