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Carlton Foster (August 26, 1826 – August 4, 1901) was an American businessman, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was the 10th and 25th mayor of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and served three terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
George Gary (March 16, 1824 – October 22, 1909) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was a member of the Wisconsin Senate and State Assembly (1854 & 1855), representing Winnebago County.
For the forty years preceding establishment of the newspaper's name as Oshkosh Northwestern in 1979, the newspaper was known as the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. [2]The Northwestern was owned by the Schwalm and Heaney families until 1998, when it was sold to Ogden Newspapers; Ogden traded the paper to Thomson Newspapers two months later for four papers in Ohio and Pennsylvania. [3]
George Henry Hotchkiss (July 1, 1906 – December 25, 1989) was an American professional basketball coach for the Oshkosh All-Stars in the United States' National Basketball League (NBL). He was the NBL Coach of the Year in 1940–41. [ 1 ]
In 2007, Jessen and the other Mercury 13 women received honorary doctorates at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (UWO). [22] This was the first time they had been honored as a group. [22] In 2017, Jessen began to experience macular degeneration in her left eye and was forced to stop flying. [8]
Newspaper office and production building designed by Auler, Jensen & Brown of Oshkosh in Neo-Italian Renaissance style and built in 1930. The Daily Northwestern, founded in 1860 and guided by John Hicks, became one of the strongest Republican papers in the state, and is the only survivor of the early papers. [30] 17: Doty Island (47-WN-30)
He resumed his law practice in Oshkosh and for many years was head of Bouck & Hilton Attorneys at Law. After four months of being confined to his room at the Athearn Hotel in Oshkosh, he died there on Sunday morning at 2:45 a.m., February 21, 1904. According to his obituary, death was the result of general debility due to old age.
Larson served on the Neenah, Wisconsin Common Council, Neenah City Water Commission, and the Winnebago County Board of Supervisors. He was a member of the Republican Party. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1921, 1925 to 1931, and 1937. He died in a hospital in Madison, Wisconsin while still in office. [1] [2] [3]