Horace Rublee was a Wisconsin journalist and newspaper editor, Republican party leader, and ambassador to Switzerland.
Rublee was born August 19, 1829, son of Alvah and Martha Rublee, in Berkshire, Vermont, a community situated tight against the Canadian border. In 1839, his father moved to what was then the pioneer western town of Sheboygan, Wisconsin Territory, where he had an interest at a saw mill, and in June 1840 the rest of the family joined him, traveling via steamship to Milwaukee and by sloop from Milwaukee to Sheboygan.
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