WI BIO - Wood Co - ROSSIER, E. B.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1209

E. B. ROSSIER, editor of the "Enterprise," was born 02 December 1832 at Vesey 
[should be "Vevey," in the canton of Vaud], Switzerland. [Vaud, the second 
largest wine-producing area in Switzerland, became a canton in 1803, and is 
one of six cantons in the region known as Romandy, or French-speaking 
Switzerland.] He [E. B. ROSSIER] came to the United States in 1851, and 
settled in Madison County, Illinois, following farming there until 1858. He 
came to Centralia [Wood County], Wisconsin, and engaged in mercantile 
business for the first twelve years, and then became Cashier of the bank of 
Grand Rapids [Wood County, Wisconsin] in 1870, and so continued three years. 
[On opposite banks of the Wisconsin River, the communities of Centralia and 
Grand Rapids merged in 1900; renamed "Wisconsin Rapids" about 1920.]

E. B. ROSSIER was Superintendent of construction [in 1873] of the Wisconsin 
Valley Railroad [the Wisconsin Valley Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Railway], and for the past two years editor and publisher of the 
"Enterprise," a Greenback paper, and is also a member of the law firm of 
Rossier & Baker [at one time Baker, Rossier and Hayden? The "Enterprise," 
founded in 1878 by E. B. ROSSIER, was the only paper in Centralia. It was 
published weekly from 1879 [first issue on 21 May 1879] to 1887, then merged 
with the Grand Rapids "Tribune" to form the Centralia "Enterprise & Tribune," 
published weekly from 1887-1900, and afterward became the "Grand Rapids 
Tribune."]

On 03 November 1853 Mr. [E. B.] ROSSIER was married to Miss Caroline MENNET, 
of St. Louis [St. Louis County, Missouri]. They [E. B. and Caroline (MENNET) 
ROSSIER] have four children: Celia, now Mrs. Frank GARRISON; Alfred; Edmond; 
and Emiele [Emile?]. Mr. ROSSIER was chairman of Board of Supervisors for 
1877 and 1878; has been Postmaster at Centralia about ten years, and City 
Clerk. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly