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Hixson, Hiram Frank 1858 - 1894 | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Hixson, Hiram Frank 1858 - 1894

Hixson, Hiram Frank 1858 - 1894 | Wisconsin Historical Society
spokesman for Populist Party, president of Ashland College (Ohio) 1883-1885, editor of Labor Advocate in Oshkosh; b. Ohio in 1858 and moved to Oshkosh in 1893; organized labor unions and advocated for the workingman; ran for lieutenant governor in 1894 but became suddenly ill and died.

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[Source: D. Ray Heisey, HEALING BODY AND SOUL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DR. W. O. BAKER, 1827-1916. Grantham, PA: The Brethren in Christ Historical Society, 2004]