Sartori and Rishel joined Struble, forming Struble, Rishel and Sartori. Rishel was more artist than businessman, and Sartori offered to manage the business end of the practice, which prospered. Struble, meanwhile, was elected to Congress, and Sartori then worked for lawyer Peter S. Through his work, he began to study buying and selling land in Northern Iowa and Southwestern Minnesota. At some point he realized he would not make a great trial lawyer. Sartori then moved to Le Mars, Iowa and partnered with lawyer Isaac S. Shaw would later become Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, and he asked Sartori to become Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a post that young Sartori declined. Still, even with a full academic load, he managed to play on the ball team and attend dances.Īfter graduation in 1881 he went to work for the legal firm of Conner and Shaw in Denison, Iowa, mainly working with land titles. There he learned shorthand so he could take down the lectures in full. He decided to become a lawyer, so in the fall he enrolled at the University of Michigan Law School. He graduated in 1879 and came home for the summer. He believed in hard work, industry and patience, and was a firm believer in progress. He excelled at Cornell, earning high grades, running the baseball team, competing in swimming championships, starting a new college newspaper and organizing dances, musical programs and social outings.īecause of his short stature, he "resolved to become so big that men would have to look up to me." He was young and ambitious and liked to do things where he could use his brains. He was known as an outstanding shortstop. When at first he was not allowed to join the baseball team, he created a competing team that challenged and beat the existing college team. This love, along with his ability and aggressiveness, made him a natural leader. Sartori was athletic, and especially loved baseball. He also joined the dueling club, but at this, his parents, alarmed, insisted he return home, where he re-entered Cornell. Here, among other pursuits, he developed a deep love of music. And so, at the age of seventeen, he interrupted his schooling at Cornell and went to Germany where he entered the University of Freiburg. But his parents did not want him to enlist and, after some negotiations, they told him he could go to any school in the world. He was very impressed by the Navy and wanted to join. In 1874, at the age of 15 he entered Cornell College in Mt. When other men were happy to earn $30 per month, Sartori was earning $100. At the age of eleven or twelve, young Joseph began working on the railroad as "train butcher", selling newspapers, candy and other notions. Sartori showed his enterprising nature early in life. After five years as a bricklayer and plasterer in the United States, Joseph sent for his sweetheart, Theresa Wangler, the daughter of the burgomeister of Baden-Baden, Germany, and they were married in New Jersey. Though his family had lived in Germany for many generations, their origins were Italian. His father, Joseph Sartori, migrated from Germany in the early 1850s. Sartori was born Decemin Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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