realtor, banker, b. Eau Claire. He attended the Univ. of Wisconsin and later engaged in banking, farming, and real-estate enterprises, with headquarters in Eau Claire. He founded several land-development companies that offered for sale ready-built houses and barns and partially stocked and equipped farms in the cutover lands of northwestern Wisconsin, particularly in Sawyer County. The village of Ojibwa, Sawyer County, was one of his community developments and he was publisher of its newspaper, the Qjibwa Courier. He was vice-president and director of the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul, Minn. (1917-1928), and was a Univ. of Wisconsin regent (1914-1932). Eau Claire Leader, June 15, 1948; Ojibwa Courier, June 14, 1948; Wis. Colonization Co. Papers.

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