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Karl, Max, 1990 June 29"Mr. Max Karl was born within view of the Polish Basilica in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin to Jewish immigrant parents in 1910. Mr. Karl's father, Louis Karl, arrived
from Russian Poland in 1898 and opened a dry goods store on the Polish South Side of
Milwaukee. Mr. Karl's mother came from Lodz in Russian Poland. When Louis Karl was
unable to compete with the department stores, he bought a grocery store. From an early
age, Max Karl was active with his father's Polish clientele. He would accompany his
father on peddling forays to outlying villages and wait on Polish customers in the
grocery store. Mr. Karl remembers the Polish words for grocery items from over seventy
years ago. He spent his youth living and attending school in a overwhelmingly Polish
neighborhood. His first clients as a fledgling lawyer were his Polish neighbors. In 1957
Max Karl founded MGIC Corporation, one of Wisconsin's leading companies. He is a
community leader and well known for his philanthropy." — Robert G. Mink,
1990
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