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- OTTO J. ZANDER According to The History of Manitowoc County by Louis Falge... REEDSVILLE: The village of Reedsville, with laudable ambition, established the Reporter in 1909, of which a Reedsville boy, Ed F. Maertz, became proprietor and editor. Later he found a better field in Denmark, a village in Brown County, and the Reporter was then taken charge of by Otto Zander, the publisher of the neighboring Brillion News.
Mr Zander was born and reared in Manitowoc County and has been in the newspaper business for many years. Owned and operated the Brillion News for more than 25 years. Was successful at this after taking over the newspaper from its first 5 owners in the first 5 years of its existence. *********
Otto J. Zander was editor and publisher of the Brillion News, at Brillion, Calumet County, for thirty years. It later became known as the Zander Press. Mr. Zander was born in Gibson, in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
His parents were Fred, born in Germany and Rosa Zander born in Bohemia and came to the United States with their parents when young both family settling in Manitowoc county in 1854.
Fred Zander moved to Mishicot, Manitowoc County in 1873, and established a hotel and opera hall, and retired from the business in 1894. He then moved to a small farm near Mishicot where he died in 1907, his wife died in 1918, both are buried in the Town of Gibson cemetery.
Otto J. Zander earned a teacher's certificate and taught in the district schools of Manitowoc County for ten years, spending two years in the Mishicot school where he had graduated. In 1899, he bought the Brillion News from Jay A. Matthews. He gradually built up the business until it became a widely read newspaper. Mr. Zander was married to Miss Isabel Trossen on August 31, 1897.
Her father came from Germany and served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Otto and Isabel had three children:
Lucile, who graduated from the College of Journalism, University of Wisconsin in 1917; Elliott, who went into the newspaper business with his father,
and Juanita who was born 9 June 1898 and died 13 Oct 1898, and is buried in the Brillion Community Cemetery, Calumet co.
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1872 - 1944 (72 years)
