Bio: Sossaman, Wallace – Printer Retires After 51 Years (1965)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Sossaman, Markus, Harvey, Janda

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 30 Sep 1965

Wallace Sossaman, 65, veteran printer at the Tribune-Phonograph shop, retires today, September 30, 1965, after 51 years in the printing trade.

Wally began his career in 1914, at the age of 14, when he went to work as a printer’s devil for the Medford Star News.

In 1917 he moved to Bessemer, Michigan, where he worked for the Bessemer Herad and the Ironwood Daily Globe.

Moving to Colby in 1919, Wally went to work for the Colby Phonograph, which was then published by the Harvey Brothers. He was joined on the Phonograph staff in 1930 by Rod Markus, who became the editor of the paper, then owned by a group of Colby businessmen.

In the late 1920; Mr. Markus purchased the paper and published it until his retirement in 1963, when it was sold to the present publisher, Louis J. Janda, and combined with the Abbotsford Tribune, forming the present Tribune-Phonograph.

Wally and his wife, Florence, are the parents of six sons and two daughters. They have 19 grandchildren.