Oliver E. Remey

Oliver E. Remey was a Milwaukee newspaperman, noted as the city editor of the Milwaukee Free Press. He is best remembered as one of the contributors to The Attempted Assassination of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, a book published soon after the October 14, 1912 shooting of Roosevelt in Milwaukee.

That book was written, compiled, and edited with Henry F. Cochems and Wheeler F. Bloodgood, and Remey’s newspaper background likely helped shape its brisk, eyewitness-driven feel. His work sits at the intersection of journalism and instant history, preserving how one extraordinary event was reported and understood at the time.

Although not much widely available biographical detail survives, Remey’s connection to Milwaukee journalism and to this vivid Roosevelt volume gives him a small but interesting place in early twentieth-century American publishing.