Lacrosse-Clark County WI Archives Biographies.....Usher, Ellis B. June 21, 1852 - 
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ELLIS B. USHER, proprietor of the "Morning Chronicle"; was born in Buxton, 
York Co., Maine, June 21, 1852; came West with his parents when a child of 2-
1/2 years; was a resident of Muscatine, Iowa, one year, when the family 
removed to Wisconsin. The first winter in this State was spent in Clark Co., 
where his father, Isaac L. Usher, was engaged in lumbering, and, in the spring 
of 1856, the family moved to Onalaska, La Crosse Co., and since that time the 
subject of this notice has been a resident of this county. In 1862-63, the 
family lived in the city, and the remaining time, with the exception of a few 
months prior to 1868, upon a farm about a mile east of the village of 
Onalaska. In 1867, the family moved to the city, and since that time have 
resided here. The subject of this notice has had only a limited common school 
education. In 1868, he began to earn his own living, and has since then been 
employed as book-keeper and clerk until 1873, when he was employed as a local 
reporter for about six months upon the "Republican and Leader". A change in 
the management dropped him out, and he was otherwise employed until April 1, 
1875, when he purchased a half-interest in the "Evening Liberal Democrat" with 
Mr. John Symes. It was made a morning paper a year later. Two years later, Mr. 
Robert F. Howard purchased Mr. Symes' interest, and the name of the paper was 
changed to the "Chronicle" by the new firm, and, a year later, Mr. Usher 
purchased the interest of Mr. Howard, and has since been its sole proprietor.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 803.

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