Madison in the Sixties - In Memoriam, Pt 2 - Business Leaders
Madison in the Sixties – In Memoriam, part 2 – business leaders Madison native Thomas E. Brittingham Jr., son of the great lumberman/philanthropist, and a founding trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, suffers a fatal heart attack at age sixty- one while driving near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 16, 1960. A member of the campus Ku Klux Klan interfraternity in the early 1920s, Brittingham became president of the Research Foundation in 1955 and oversaw its successful investment strategy. Two leading businessmen take their own lives in 1961— one due to fail...
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