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Note: Founded the south Side Assn and was its 1st President. lived one Block East of Layton Blvd.
Was city editor of The Milwaukee Journal Newspaper 1909-1919.
Buried on Nuesse Plot, Forest Home Cemetery.
"Golden Jubilee Class History" Page 194. GEORG C. NUESSE--Work spells pleasure for Brother Nuesse, which accounts for the fact that the Historian so cheerfully turned over to him the revising and editing of 300 or more of the class biographies--a task that took all his spare time for weeks, including sundays and other odd moments that he had planned to spend with his family. As busy a man as he is--he's been a patternmaker, printer, stenographer, reporter and is now city editor of the Milwaukee Journal--he finds time for pleasure, and takes it among his currant bushes and in his garden, and in swimming or fishing when chance offers. He is an ex-president of the Milwaukee Press Club, and now a member of its board of governors; is vice-president of the Handel Choir, secretary of the south Division Civic Association, and on February 8, 1911, was elected to succeed the late Judge J. M. Pereles as a citizen member of the Milwaukee Public Library Board, a position he still holds. He also served as a private in Battery A. Wisconsin, during the Spanish-American War. He attended Milwaukee schools and a business college. On September 7, 1900, he was married to Martha O. Schneider, Milwaukee. They have three children, Hdarriet, 9; Janet, 6, and George, Jr. l. "George C." was born October 14, 1872, in Milwaukee, and holds offices in his blue lodge and commandery.
Brother Nuesse was president of the Milwaukee Press Club when Theodore roosevelt came to visit the club on Nuesse's invitation. It was the special privilege of the president of the club to make a speech of welcome to the distinguished guest, but the overwhelming presence of the "Big Stick" fussed him up so that he lost the lines of his speech. Nuesse is of too genuine a quality to pretend to be what he is not, viz.., a aspeech maker, so he just turned on the indomitable Teddy and said, "Well, Mr. President, you know what I mean." and started to sit down. The assembled newspaper men cheered him to the echo, while Roosevelt grabben Nuesse by the hand and held it until he had told the audience (what everybody knew) "That speech came from the heart."
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