St. Croix County Board Chairman Daryl Standafer portrays Charlie Ward, Hudson’s larger than life citizen of the 1940s and ’50s. Rising from a humble birth and stay in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., Ward became president of the Brown & Bigelow printing company. He made Hudson his home and at one time owned nearly 2,000 acres of surrounding countryside.
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