Person Record
Metadata
Name |
McComb, Alfred C. |
Notes |
Alfred Craft. McComb 1857-1939 Alfred was born at Hortonia, Wisconsin, which s one half mile from Hortonville, Wisconsin, Feb. 20,1857. He graduated from Horton High School and worked as a teacher while studying at Lawrence University, graduating in 1878. He taught shool in several Wisconsin cities and then became the Superintendent Bozeman Academy in Bozen, Montana. He came to Oshkosh in 1892 to enter the real estate business. At one time owned land in Oshkosh, Arkansas, Michigan & Montana, & South America, in excess of 100,000 acres. He also founded the community of Rib Lake, Wisconsin. He married Ella G. Wilson of Oshkosh, on June 13, 1894. The had three children, Goldy Belle Watterson, of Chicago, Mary Jane McComb Zaug, New London, Mark W. McComb, John. She was the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wilson, and was born January 6, 1868, in Oshkosh. She died on January 1, 1916, in Oshkosh. Mr. McComb was a member of the Oshkosh Elk's and a trustee of Lawrence University in Appleton. He died October 28, 1939, in Oshkosh. He was instrumental in the reburial of Chief Oshkosh Monument in Menominee Park and the obelisk in Riverside Cemetery. His son Mark was killed in a plane crash on March 11, 1929, in Milwaukee. He was the pilot when the engine quit at a low altitude causing the plane to stall crashing hard enough to break the safety belts and killing Mr. McComb and his passenger Christian Setvate, manager of Milwaukee County Airport. The plane left Oshkosh in the late afternoon with a mail delivery. Excerpt from Oshkosh Daily Northwestern & Dawes History of Oshkosh 1938. |
Occupation |
Teacher/School superintendent/ Lawrence University Board member |
Places of residence |
Hortonia, WI/Bozema, Montana/Appleton, WI,/Wisconsin Rapids, WI/Tomah, WI/Rib Lake, WI |
