Viewing Eugene Boris Altschul (1909-1939).

Eugene Boris Altschul (1909-1939).

Eugene B. Altschul was born in Strassbourg, Germany, in 1909, and emigrated to the United States with his family in the early 1930s. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1938. On December 12, 1939, he died in a freak accident. In memorial proceedings for the Hennepin County Bar Association in 1940, a classmate recalled him:

"In Eugene Altschul, America gained a genuinely desirable citizen, a citizen lost even before his final papers had been granted. To him American citizenship was not the matter-of-fact thing that it is to most of us. He consciously sought, in the few years that he lived here, to become a true American, to make our history, our traditions, and our customs a part of himself."

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