Marlatt, Walter Thomas 1874 - 1925 | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Marlatt, Walter Thomas 1874 - 1925

Marlatt, Walter Thomas 1874 - 1925 | Wisconsin Historical Society
newspaperman, b. Franklin, Ind. He graduated from DePauw Univ. (B.A., 1895), and taught Latin there for one year. In 1896 he moved to Wisconsin, settling in Kenosha where he became assistant headmaster of the Univ. School for Boys. In 1896 he also became associated with the Kenosha Daily Union, and late in 1897 was appointed city editor of the Kenosha Evening News. He became editor of the paper in 1915, publisher in 1917, and continued as editor and publisher until his death. F. H. Lyman, City of Kenosha . . . (2 vols., Chicago, 1916); M. M. Quaife, Wis. (4 vols., Chicago, 1924); Kenosha Evening News, Apr. 4, 1925.

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[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography]