BIOGRAPHIES: Herbert A. PEASE, Cumberland, Barron County, WI

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Herbert A. Pease, publisher of the "Free Press," Cumberland, Barron county, 
was born July 28, 1867, in Menomonie, and is a son of Dr. W. C.* And Margaret 
Evans Pease. He is the eldest of seven children, four of whom are living. His 
early life was spent in Menomonie, where he attended the high school. In 1889 
Mr. Pease entered the newspaper business, and established the Washburn county 
"Register," at Spooner, which he conducted for two years, when he came to 
Cumberland, and, in partnership with O. K. Smith, established the Barron 
county "Free Press," April 23, 1891, which has been removed to Amery, Polk 
county, where it is now published. Mr. Pease married, in September, 1888, at 
Cumberland, Miss Etta, daughter of George and Margaret Morris. One child, 
Margaret, was born to them in 1889. Mr. Pease has always been a firm believer 
in the principles of the democratic party.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", page 891.