Charles W. OGDEN
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Charles W. OGDEN
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Classification: Biography
Surnames: Gilmore, Gordon, Ogden, Seymour, Sturtevant, Ware, Woodnorth
From "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties: Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano" by Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co. 1895.
CHARLES W. OGDEN, printer and publisher, was born at Ogdensburg, Wis, December 16, 1861 whence,
when four years of age he moved with his parents to Waupaca, the county seat. At thirteen he went into his brother's office, The Waupaca Post, to learn the trade. In 1881 he opened the first music store in Waupaca, sold out after two years of good business, and then entered the old hotel, "Lewis House," as its proprietor. Not contented with hotel life, he ventured the dramatic profession under the management of Harry L. Seymour. It required something over two years of character-acting before he became convinced that his first profession, that of a printer, was his only show to settle in life. Entering the Mining Record office at Ironwood, Mich., as foreman, in 1886, when the Gogebic range was in its infancy, he remained there eighteen months, after which he was engaged as manager of the Iron journal, a paper devoted to the mining interests of the Vermilion range, located at Tower, Minn. In February, 1888, he resigned his position and left for San Diego, Cal., where he was married to Miss Sylvia Sherman. In June, 1889, he returned to Waupaca, where in the fall he entered with John L. Sturtevant in buying the Waupaca Post. The Ogdens are a strong, hearty and long-lived race. Five generations are living at the present writing; Mrs. Mary Ogden, the grandmother of Charles W., is ninety-six years old, and lives in Madison, this state. She keeps house and does all the cooking, washing, etc., for herself and son.
THE WAUPACA POST, established in 1877 by John A. Ogden, and published since then successively and successfully by Gordon & Ogden, Gordon, Gilmore & Ware, Woodnorth Bros.; Gordon & Ware, and Sturtevant, Ogden & Ware, the present proprietors; is a live, enterprising weekly, of twelve pages of six columns each. Stanchly Republican in politics, it is conservative and candid, and is under the control of no faction, clique or ring. The active publishers are John L. Sturtevant and Charles W. Ogden. John M. Ware, who has a financial interest in the Post, is a farmer and live-stock dealer, residing on a farm about two miles north of the city.
JOHN L. STURTEVANT was born in Delavan, Walworth county, in March, 1 865, his father being Charles V. Sturtevant, one of the earliest settlers in that village. A peculiar. family incident is that Charles was one of eighteen children, by the same parents, two of whom are still living, the average age at death of the sixteen being about seventy years. John L. was educated at the Delavan High School, graduating at the age of sixteen. Having learned the printer's trade during vacations, he went to Stillwater, Minn., where he was foreman of the Sun for one year. Then he went to St. Paul as a reporter, and for seven years did newspaper work of all kinds in St. Paul and Chicago, being on the St. Paul Pioneer-Press staff over three consecutive years. He came to Waupaca in November, 1889, purchasing an interest in the Post, and has resided here ever since.
CHARLES W. OGDEN, printer and publisher, was born at Ogdensburg, Wis, December 16, 1861 whence,
when four years of age he moved with his parents to Waupaca, the county seat. At thirteen he went into his brother's office, The Waupaca Post, to learn the trade. In 1881 he opened the first music store in Waupaca, sold out after two years of good business, and then entered the old hotel, "Lewis House," as its proprietor. Not contented with hotel life, he ventured the dramatic profession under the management of Harry L. Seymour. It required something over two years of character-acting before he became convinced that his first profession, that of a printer, was his only show to settle in life. Entering the Mining Record office at Ironwood, Mich., as foreman, in 1886, when the Gogebic range was in its infancy, he remained there eighteen months, after which he was engaged as manager of the Iron journal, a paper devoted to the mining interests of the Vermilion range, located at Tower, Minn. In February, 1888, he resigned his position and left for San Diego, Cal., where he was married to Miss Sylvia Sherman. In June, 1889, he returned to Waupaca, where in the fall he entered with John L. Sturtevant in buying the Waupaca Post. The Ogdens are a strong, hearty and long-lived race. Five generations are living at the present writing; Mrs. Mary Ogden, the grandmother of Charles W., is ninety-six years old, and lives in Madison, this state. She keeps house and does all the cooking, washing, etc., for herself and son.
THE WAUPACA POST, established in 1877 by John A. Ogden, and published since then successively and successfully by Gordon & Ogden, Gordon, Gilmore & Ware, Woodnorth Bros.; Gordon & Ware, and Sturtevant, Ogden & Ware, the present proprietors; is a live, enterprising weekly, of twelve pages of six columns each. Stanchly Republican in politics, it is conservative and candid, and is under the control of no faction, clique or ring. The active publishers are John L. Sturtevant and Charles W. Ogden. John M. Ware, who has a financial interest in the Post, is a farmer and live-stock dealer, residing on a farm about two miles north of the city.
JOHN L. STURTEVANT was born in Delavan, Walworth county, in March, 1 865, his father being Charles V. Sturtevant, one of the earliest settlers in that village. A peculiar. family incident is that Charles was one of eighteen children, by the same parents, two of whom are still living, the average age at death of the sixteen being about seventy years. John L. was educated at the Delavan High School, graduating at the age of sixteen. Having learned the printer's trade during vacations, he went to Stillwater, Minn., where he was foreman of the Sun for one year. Then he went to St. Paul as a reporter, and for seven years did newspaper work of all kinds in St. Paul and Chicago, being on the St. Paul Pioneer-Press staff over three consecutive years. He came to Waupaca in November, 1889, purchasing an interest in the Post, and has resided here ever since.