Hotze "Harry" Koch (/kɒx/ KOKH; 22 October 1867 – 21 June 1942) was a Dutch-born American businessman who founded the Quanah Tribune-Chief newspaper.
[1] Koch's paternal grandfather had been a shipowner from Sande in German East Frisia who had shipwrecked off the coast of Workum, where he eventually married the mayor's daughter.
Koch's mother died during the birth of her eighth child, and his father remarried Petronella de Swart, the daughter of a banker.
Around 1890, he moved to Eastern Texas, where the humid climate drove him soon West to settle in the railroad town Quanah.
During the depression, he fiercely opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and wrote opinion pieces against trade unions, retirement pensions, and the regulation of banks.