Congregational clergyman, educator, businessman, manufacturer, b. Wausau. He graduated from Lawrence College (M.S., 1891), and did graduate work at Harvard Univ. (1891-1892). He was principal of the Wausau high school (1892-1895), pastor of the First Congregational Church at Appleton (1895-1896), and superintendent of schools in Wausau (1896-1905). From 1905 to 1910 he was general manager of the Watab Paper Co. in St. Cloud, Minn. In 1910 he returned to Wausau where he became one of the organizers of the Wausau Sulphate Fiber Co., and served as president of this firm (1910-1917). During World War I, he served as a member of George Creel's public information bureau, and in 1919 returned to his business activities in Wausau where he was an organizer and promoter of the Wausau Motor Parts Co. and the Wausau Citizens' Loan and Investment Co. He was president of the Northeastern Wisconsin Teachers' Association (1899), a regent of the Minnesota state normal schools for several years, president of the Wausau Industrial Board of Education (1913), and for many years a trustee of Lawrence College. He also served as Wisconsin chairman of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fund, and was several times an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for state offices. He died while vacationing in California. F. L. Holmes, et al., eds., Wis. (5 vols., Chicago, 1946); M. M. Quaife, Wis. (4 vols., Chicago, 1924); Wausau Pilot, Dec. 15, 1938; Wausau Daily Record-Herald, Dec. 9, 1938.Learn More
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