William J. Froelich

(1901-1980) born in Stromsburg, Polk County, lived in O'Neill, Holt County. Lawyer, member of U.S. Attorney General's Office in Washington, DC, was part of a special task force of six lawyers to oversee major federal cases, including violators of the 18th Amendment, co-prosecuted Chicago gangster Al Capone in 1931 for tax evasion, served as first chairman of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, July 18, 1954, pp. G-4, G-5 and American National Biography, Vol 8 (1999) 504-505.

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