Frank Gehle (1869-1939) – Gehle had a varied and exciting background. He owned a saloon, worked as a bartender, spent a stint as a semipro wrestler and worked as a gym boxing instructor with future president Teddy Roosevelt as one of his students. During some economic downtimes he had been a hobo and a circus roustabout. In 1903, under the newly adopted Municipal Code, he became the city’s first modern police chief, serving until 1936. As Chief, he introduced the automobile, the motorcycle (1910), automatic weapons, a modern jail facility and a fingerprint identification system. His thirty-three year career included protecting the city from the looting that followed the 1913 Flood, labor violence, prohibition violations, robberies, assaults and murders.