Arthur C. Josephs

Era: World War II

Military Branch: Navy

Arther C. Josephs served in World War II in the U.S. Navy.

He was born December 20, 1906, in Duluth, Minnesota. He graduated from Duluth Central High School.

Mr. Josephs attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1928 and continued to a master’s degree in 1929. He then worked for an engineering firm in New York for a short time until the Depression and left for Vienna, Austria.

Arthur earned his doctoral degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Vienna, where he met his future wife, Adrienne Hoffer.

Mr. Josephs returned to the United States, and at the onset of WWII Mr. Josephs enlisted in the Navy. He was assigned as a commander to a battalion in the SeaBees, and he served in the Alaska Campaign.

Toward the end of the war, he married Adrienne and returned to Duluth to assume the leadership of the Zalk-Josephs Company until its sale in the early 70’s.

Mr. Josephs died at age 100 in Duluth, Minnesota, on March 10, 2007.

Source: Duluth News Tribune, March 11, 2007