1939-1940 NWC The Black and Red Vol. 43

RED Rev. Prof. Karl Hutli, PIi. D. Karl Huth was born in Brandenburg, Germany, on Nov. 30, 1857. As a boy he came to Chicago with his parents and there attended a parochial school. For his high school and college years he came to Northwestern. Here he was known as a good sport and a likeable fellow. As a student he was very gifted and took a special interest in the study of Greek.

After graduating at Watertown, he continued his studies in the Seminary at St. Louis. On Dec. 6, 1881 he married Ida Hilgendorf whose home was also in Chicago. Rev. Huth was first called to assume a charge in Australia but he did not accept and soon after he was called to be the first professor and founder of Concordia College in Milwaukee. And it was always in the interest of Concordia that he worked during his whole life. At the same time, however, he also served as an assistant pastor at Cross Church, then Bethlehem Church and finally at Stephen Church in Milwaukee. Also for a time he helped serve a congregation at Racine.

Rev. Prof. Huth was to his family a stern but kind father.

His whole life was spent in study. His interest in Greek con­ tinued and he mastered the language even to the extent that he used it in his prayers. Prof. Huth was active in his work as president of Concordia until he suddenly died on April 23, 1926.

His wife followed him in death in September 1938. He had no brothers and only one sister, who died as a young girl.

Surviving- him are his eight children, Prof. Karl Huth, Ph. D., Dean of History at the University of Chicago, Mrs. R. Buerger (Elsa) of Milwaukee, Miss Hilda Huth of Milwaukee, Walter of St. Paul, Minn., Godfrey, of Milwaukee, Mrs. Probst (Gertrude) of Chicago, Mrs. E. Schoenheiter (Dorothy) of Baltimore, Md.. Edward of Milwaukee and Robert of the same city.

Mr. Leonard Laiupert Leonard Lampert was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lampert and was born on the fourth day of June 1849 in Switzerland. His father was a mason contractor and he came to this country about 1870.

After completing his studies at Northwestern and the Seminary he became a pastor for a short time. Soon, however, on account of troubles which he encountered, he left the ministry and became interested in the retail lumber business in Minnesota. It is he who became the head of the present large Lampert Lumber Co. of Minneapolis.

In October 1883 he married Miss Emma Schwartz the daughter of a merchant in Watertown. During the course of his life he lived at Winona, Mankato, Minneapolis and finally St. Paul where he died in May 1926. A generous donation was 89