Harry Koch (businessman)

Hotze Harry Koch October 1867 June 1942 was a Dutchborn American businessman who founded the Quanah TribuneChief newspaper. He was the father of Fred C. Koch , founder of Koch Industries.

Koch was born in the Dutch Frisian town of Workum, Netherlands. He was the second child of the physician Johan Anthon Koch and Gatske Hotzes Jorritsma . Kochs paternal grandfather had been a shipowner from Sande in German East Frisia who had shipwrecked off the coast of Workum, where he eventually married the mayors daughter. Kochs mother died during the birth of her eighth child, and his father remarried Petronella de Swart, the daughter of a banker. Harry Koch had five surviving siblings and another five halfsiblings who all remained in the Netherlands. After working as a printers apprentice in The Hague and Germany, Koch emigrated to the United States in 1888. He first lived in Dutch enclaves in Chicago and Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he worked for Dutchlanguage newspapers.

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