The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Kohlsaat, Herman Henry

KOHLSAAT, kōl'sät, Herman Henry, American publisher: b. Albion, Ill., 22 March 1853. He was educated in the public schools of Galena and Chicago, Ill., and after acting as traveling salesman for several years for Chicago firms became in 1880 a junior partner in a wholesale bakery. He became the originator of the &ldquo;bakery lunch,&rdquo; subsequently acquired a fortune in the bakery business and other enterprises. From 1891-93 he was part owner of the Inter-Ocean of Chicago. From 1894-1901 he was editor and publisher of the Chicago Evening Post and the Times-Herald. The latter, in 1901, was amalgamated with the Chicago Record into the Record-Herald of which paper he was editor, 1910-12. In 1912 he bought the Inter-Ocean, then bankrupt, succeeded in seeing it through another receivership in 1914 in which year he combined it with the Record-Herald, the new paper being known as the Chicago Herald. At the same time he retired from the publishing field. Consult Flower, E., &lsquo;H. H. Kohlsaat&rsquo; (in Cosmopolitan Magazine, Vol. XXXV, p. 338, New York 1903); Wellman, W., &lsquo;Mr. Kohlsaat of Chicago and His Part in the Political History Making of 1896&rsquo; (in Review of Reviews, Vol. XV, p. 41, New York 1897).