Posted on: Clark Co. Wi Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/ClarkBios/10747 Surname: ------------------------- 1891 Biographical History of Clark & Jackson Counties WI Satterlee & Tift are the proprietors and publishers of the “Republican and Press”, the oldest journal in the county. Having been established in the year 1855. Neillsville at that time consisted of a small cluster of houses and gave but little promise of becoming the prosperous and thriving little city it is now. The present publishers of the paper are energetic, public-spirited gentlemen, and under their management the “Republican and Press” has become one of the leading publications of Northern Wisconsin. Their printing house is well equipped for doing a general business, and work entrusted to them is executed in the highest style of the art. In 1890 they published in large pamphlet form a historical and descriptive work of Clark County; it contains eighty pages and furnishes much valuable information in regard to the climate, soil, and natural resources of the county. Milton Satterlee was born near Freeport, Illinois, and has been engaged in the newspaper business for many years. James H. Tift is a native of Wisconsin, born in Dane County. He learned the trade of a printer in Black Earth, Dane County, becoming foremen of the “Democrat” of Madison, and came from that place to Neillsville.