Alwin A. OLTROGGE

OLTROGGE, KAUFMANN, GROSSMAN, SCHMIDTKE

Posted By: Debbie Clough Gerischer
Date: 11/19/2008 at 18:02:36

ALWIN A. OLTROGGE is owner and editor and publisher of the Westside Journal at Westside, Crawford County, Iowa.

He was born at Waverly in this state February 6, 1891, son of J. Henry and Anna (Kaufmann) Oltrogge. His father was a native of Hessen, Germany, and his mother was born at Roseville, Michigan. Both are now deceased, having spent most of the years of their married life in Waverly.

Alwin A. Oltrogge was educated in parochial schools at Waverly, and it was from his uncle, G. A. Grossman, one time publisher of the Waverly Phoenix, that he learned the printer's trade. After finishing his apprenticeship he worked as a journeyman, and has been connected with various printing and newspaper plants over the state. In 1928 he bought the Westside Journal, and his management has brought increased prestige to one of the oldest papers in Crawford County. The Journal is now in its thirty-eighth year. It is a weekly paper, Republican in politics, which is also the partisan creed of Mr. Oltrogge. He is a Presbyterian and a member of the Masonic fraternity. He married Miss Clara Schmidtke, and has a son, Robert.

from A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, Volume IV, THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York, 1931.

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