There is a private island for sale off the west coast of Florida between Sarasota and Naples ? yes, the asking price is $29.5 million ? that was originally inhabited by an Oshkosh native who made his fortune in Madison….The scientist referenced by the (Wall Street) Journal was Charles Burgess, who graduated from UW-Madison in 1895 and taught chemical engineering there from graduation to 1913, when he resigned to devote his energies to a private laboratory he’d started in Madison in 1910. Early on, Burgess’ lab produced batteries for Madison’s French Battery Co., soon to be renamed Rayovac.
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