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DarbellayBorn(1851-03-29)March 29, 1851Nemeck\u00e1, Z\u00f3lyom County, Kingdom of HungaryDiedAugust 23, 1914(1914-08-23) (aged\u00a063)Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.Resting placeRiverview Public Cemetery, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, U.S.Political partyDemocraticSpouseElizabeth Metzner\u200b\u200b(m.\u00a01871; died\u00a01883)\u200bChildrenJohn C. Karel Jr.(b. 1873; died 1938)L. Albert Karel(b. 1875; died 1965)Flora Mae (Templeton)(b. 1877; died 1978)EducationPlze\u0148 GymnasiumOccupationBanker, diplomatJohn C. Karel Sr. (or Carel)[note 1] (March 29, 1851\u00a0\u2013 August 23, 1914) was a Bohemian American immigrant, banker, and Democratic politician.  He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Kewaunee County during the 1879 session.  During the presidency of Grover Cleveland, he served as U.S. consul at Prague and Saint Petersburg.Table of ContentsBiography[edit]Personal life and family[edit]Electoral history[edit]Wisconsin Assembly (1878)[edit]Wisconsin Senate (1880)[edit]Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner (1886)[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Biography[edit]John Karel was born in March 1851, in the village of Nemeck\u00e1, in what was then Z\u00f3lyom County in the Kingdom of Hungary\u2014the area is now central Slovakia.  His early life was spent in Prague and Plze\u0148,[1]  and he received a collegiate education at the Plze\u0148 Gymnasium.  He emigrated to the United States and settled at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, in 1868.[2]He served as chairman of the Kewaunee County Board of Supervisors and was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1878, running on the Democratic Party ticket.[2]  He ran for Wisconsin State Senate in 1880, but was defeated by Republican William A. Ellis.[3]Karel was the Democratic nominee for the statewide elected office Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner in the 1886 general election.  He was defeated along with the entire Democratic ticket.[4]  A month after his election loss, he accepted appointment as vice-consul to Prague, in Austria-Hungary, under U.S. consul-general Charles Jonas.[5]  He remained in the office through the end of U.S. President Grover Cleveland’s first term, in 1889, and afterward moved to Chicago, Illinois.[6]In Chicago he was a partner in a banking business known as Kasper & Karel, which was considered the leading banking institution for Bohemian American merchants in Chicago.[6]  When Grover Cleveland returned to office in 1893, Karel was re-appointed to the consulate in Prague, and then, in 1894, he was appointed consul-general at Saint Petersburg, which was then the capital of the Russian Empire.[7]After returning from his diplomatic missions, he resumed his interest in banking and was one of the founders of the American State Bank in Chicago, where he served as president until his retirement.[8]He retired due to poor health about 1912.  His health continued to decline and he went to live with his daughter, Flora, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He died there on August 23, 1914.[1][8]Personal life and family[edit]John Karel married Elizabeth Metzner in 1871.  They had at least three children before her death in 1883.  Their eldest son, John C. Karel, Jr., was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, a county judge in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, and the Democratic nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in 1912 and 1914.[1]Electoral history[edit]Wisconsin Assembly (1878)[edit]Wisconsin Senate (1880)[edit]Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner (1886)[edit]^ The 1879 and 1881 Wisconsin Blue Books spell his last name “Carel”, but all later coverage, including his gravestone and his son’s gubernatorial campaign, spell it “Karel”.References[edit]^ a b c “Leading Bohemian, J. C. Karel, Sr., Dies”. Green Bay Press-Gazette. August 24, 1914. p.\u00a03. Retrieved February 23, 2022 \u2013 via Newspapers.com.^ a b c Warner, Hans B., ed. (1879). “Biographical Sketches” (PDF). The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. p.\u00a0496. Retrieved February 23, 2022.^ a b Heg, J. E., ed. (1881). “Biographical Sketches” (PDF). The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. p.\u00a0394. Retrieved February 23, 2022.^ a b Timme, Ernst G., ed. (1887). “Biographical Sketches” (PDF). The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin (Report). State of Wisconsin. p.\u00a0484. Retrieved February 23, 2022.^ “Hon. Charles Jonas …” The Wisconsin State Register. December 4, 1886. p.\u00a02. Retrieved February 23, 2022 \u2013 via Newspapers.com.^ a b “Office for John Karel of Chicago”. Chicago Tribune. September 22, 1893. p.\u00a011. Retrieved February 23, 2022 \u2013 via Newspapers.com.^ “Gets His Old Place”. The Weekly Wisconsin. November 17, 1894. p.\u00a05. Retrieved February 23, 2022 \u2013 via Newspapers.com.^ a b “John Karel, Banker, Dies”. Chicago Tribune. August 24, 1914. p.\u00a07. 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