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Arthur Washington Ladd

Birth	:	29 Jul 1858 Oneida, Knox County, Illinois, USA
Death	:	20 Jan 1941 Albion, Boone County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Rose Hill Cemetery, Albion, Boone County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.6762000, -98.0003900
Plot	:	Block 10
Description	:	ARTHUR W. LADD. The subject of this sketch was born at Oneida, Knox County, Illinois, on the twenty-ninth day of July 1858. His parents lived on a farm until he was about twelve years old, when they moved to town, where he attended school for three years. Although he had not completed the high school course, he was compelled to leave school and start in the battle of life. As a boy he was employed as a clerk in a restaurant, dry goods and grocery stores, and finally as assistant postmaster in his native town. While... Read More	ARTHUR W. LADD. The subject of this sketch was born at Oneida, Knox County, Illinois, on the twenty-ninth day of July 1858. His parents lived on a farm until he was about twelve years old, when they moved to town, where he attended school for three years. Although he had not completed the high school course, he was compelled to leave school and start in the battle of life. As a boy he was employed as a clerk in a restaurant, dry goods and grocery stores, and finally as assistant postmaster in his native town. While thus employed he purchased one of the amateur printing outfits for printing cards or other small matter. Being fascinated with the taste of the printing business, and being discharged from his position in the post-office on account of a change of administration, he conceived the idea of starting a newspaper. The town had never had a printing office, and had always been considered too small to support a paper. Such obstacles looked small to the eighteen-year-old boy, and he found a friend who "staked" him to the amount of sixty dollars. This with a small amount he had himself was used for the purchase of a very small printing outfit. The paper as first started had four columns to the page, and it was printed one page at a time. It proved to be capable of supplying "a long felt want," and it waxed strong with every passing month. Additional equipment was added as fast as any surplus funds cumulated, until at the end of three years a nice little country newspaper was being printed. Mr. Ladd now being twenty-one years of age, and having developed the newspaper business of his native town to its full extent, yearned for other worlds to conquer, and decided to "go west and grow up with the country." He made a prospecting trip through Nebraska, and the first place he visited was Albion. This place was then fifty miles from a railroad, Columbus being the nearest station. However, bonds had been voted and the Union Pacific was sure to be built to Albion the following year. The prospect looked good to him, and he decided to locate in Albion. This was in September 1879; in thirty days he had returned to Illinois, closed up his business, and was on the ground at Albion, where he commenced the publication of the Albion News. At this writing he has just completed thirty years as publisher of this paper, which he started in 1879. This is a record very seldom heard of in the country newspaper business. The News is one of the leading weekly papers of the state, and has developed into a good business property. It occupies a nice brick building built especially for a printing office. Mr. Ladd has also built one of the best residences in the town, and has acquired other business interests. He is vice president of the Albion National bank, one of the "roll of honor" banks of the state. He is a stockholder and director of the Albion Milling Company. On the whole his thirty years of newspaper business seem to have resulted in a fair return. In September 1887, Mr. Ladd was united in marriage with Miss Amy I. Fox, and to them one daughter was born. In 1890, under the administration of Benjamin Harrison, Mr. Ladd was appointed postmaster for Albion, and he served the term of four years, when a democratic president passed the office along to a member of his own party. As a member of the school board and city council, Mr. Ladd was drafted several times. When the commercial club was organized, he was elected president for two consecutive years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and served the local lodge in all of its several official capacities. Mr. Ladd organized the first brass band in Boone County in 1880, and continued to play in or conduct, a band at Albion for more than twenty years. He was also musical director of the Philharmonic orchestra, which for several years was a musical organization of more than local reputation. Mr. Ladd has been a member of the State Press Association for more than twenty-five years, and in 1904 he was elected president of that association. In 1900 the republicans of his senatorial district nominated Mr. Ladd for state senator, but as this was in the days of populist supremacy he was defeated in the district, although he carried his own county by a nice majority. He has never sought public office, being content to exert his efforts for the election of others. He has always been a consistent republican, and of late years of the "progressive" type. "COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY OF NEBRASKA" ALDEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, CHICAGO: 1912 page 406

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Arthur Washington Ladd's memorial is located at: Rose Hill Cemetery, Albion, Boone County, USA.
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Arthur Washington Ladd death on 20 Jan 1941 in Albion, Boone County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 41.6762000
Longitude: -98.0003900

Family Members:

Parent

James Monroe Ladd

(1818 - 1889)

Sarah Gilman Graves Ladd

(1822 - 1910)

Spouse

Amy Isola Fox Ladd

(1865 - 1948)

Siblings

Wallace Wingate Ladd

(1854 - 1936)

Children

Della Ladd Waugh

(1891 - 1967)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Rose Hill Cemetery
Albion, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6762000, -98.0003900

2. Saint Michael's Cemetery
Albion, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6991997, -97.9764023

3. Boone Cemetery
Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6272011, -97.9332962

4. Orford Pioneer Cemetery
Loretto, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7953000, -98.0864300

5. Dennison Cemetery
Albion, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7182999, -98.1753006

6. Sunrise Cemetery
Cedar Rapids, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5760994, -98.1278000

7. Salem Lutheran Cemetery
Woodville Township, Platte County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6525800, -97.8084000

8. Naomi Cemetery
Saint Edward, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5245200, -97.9907000

9. Saint Edward Catholic Cemetery
Saint Edward, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5684800, -97.8424800

10. Immanuel Zion South Branch Cemetery
Albion, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8135000, -97.8906000

11. Evergreen Cemetery
Saint Edward, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5677986, -97.8411026

12. Sunset Cemetery
Cedar Rapids, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5611000, -98.1605988

13. Saint Anthony Cemetery
Cedar Rapids, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5607986, -98.1616974

14. Trinity Cemetery
Newman Grove, Madison County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7574997, -97.8035965

15. Looking Glass Cemetery
Rosenborg, Platte County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6571000, -97.7617000

16. Hope Cemetery
Platte County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7383003, -97.7742004

17. Main Cemetery
Belgrade, Nance County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4947014, -98.0425034

18. Saint Ansgar Cemetery
Rosenborg, Platte County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6334000, -97.7539000

19. Dahlsborg Cemetery
Closter, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8212300, -97.8360000

20. Dublin Cemetery
Primrose, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6463000, -98.2529900

21. Saint Marys Catholic Cemetery
Primrose, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.6465900, -98.2532600

22. Skeedee Cemetery
Nance County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5038986, -97.8850021

23. Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Petersburg, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8568993, -98.0924988

24. Saint Johns Cemetery
Petersburg, Boone County, USA
Coordinate: 41.8581009, -98.0939026