William D. Hoard an influential publisher, broke with La Follette in 1912. Hoard died in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, on November 22, 1918 (age 82 years, 43 days). He is interred at Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. In honor of Hoard's service to the dairy industry, a statue of Hoard by Gutzon Borglum was erected in 1922 at the head of Henry Mall of what is now the University of Wisconsin–Madison, which was the original quadrangle of the university's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.' Gutzon Borglum later went on to create Mount Rushmore. Wisconsin Statute W.S.A. 995.24 creates a Wisconsin state holiday called
Isabel Paterson position was with a newspaper in Vancouver, British Columbia, where for two years she wrote drama reviews. In 1914, Paterson started submitting her first two novels, "The Magpie's Nest" and "The Shadow Riders," to publishers, without much success. It was not until 1916 that her second novel "The Shadow Riders" was accepted and published by John Lane Company, which also published "The Magpie's Nest" the following year in 1917. After World War I, she moved to New York City, where she worked for the sculptor Gutzon Borglum. He was creating statues for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and