Illinois newspaper directory. History of the Illinois press association

Illinois Newspaper Directory and HistoryJAMI s E. Di R.TING1 R—Born March 21, 1S73. in Fulton County.Business college and L.iw training. Entered newspaper business as circulation managerot the Kewanee Courier. Now editor and owner of the Bushnell Record. Winedcommunity activities. Married Teresa Hicks, 1903. One daughter. Knights of Pythias,Masons, Odd Fellows, Pythian Sisters, Eastern Star.Howi V. Morgan— Born near Highland, August 11, 1892.High school graduate.Began learning trade on Greenville Sun, no longer in existence.Co-publisher and editor of the Sparta News-Plaindealer since 1921. Many communityactivities. Married Julia Eve Bourner, 1915. Two children. Member of the PresbyterianChurch. K. of P. Modern Woodmen of America. Woodmen of the World.Gerry D. Scott—Born at Greencastle, Mo., on September 26, 1890.Moved to Wyoming, Illinois with parents, in infancy. Grade and high school education.First experience in newspaper work with Stark County Tribune at Wyoming whilestill a small boy. Served apprenticeship on the Wyoming Post-Herald. Later worked onStark County News at Toulon and Cambridge Chronicle at Cambridge. Worked on theChicago American, Bureau County Tribune, Princeton Star Courier, Kewanee EveningMail, Galesburg Transcript and Evening Star and Evening Journal, Peoria; News-Scimitar,Memphis, Tenn. Purchased the Wyoming Post-Herald with brother in 1914. Becamesole owner in 191 S. Later purchased the Princeville Telephone which he still owns.Active in civic and political affairs of the city. Served as treasurer of the Illinois PressAssociation. Vice president of the N.E.A. Married Ruth Reynolds, March 6, 1911. Twochildren. Member Masonic fraternity; past high priest Wyoming Chapter Royal ArchMasons.Chester R. Denson-—Born in Ursa, Adams County, Illinois, on January 30, 1882.He attended the rural schools and graduated from the Minonk High School in 1905.He first became interested in printing when the Ursa Trumpet was founded in thevillage in 1893 but it expired after ten issues. Shortly afterwards he purchased a smalljob press and did small jobs until May, S 1 s> s when he and Arlington Taylor, now a,district judge at Ft. Morgan, Colo., founded the Ursa Times. In 1899-1900 Densonworked in Chicago as a Gordon feeder and on March 1, 1900, again took charge of theUrsa paper and conducted it until January, 1901. On November 1, 1904, he purchasedthe Minonk Register and immediately changed the name to the Dispatch, which wasrun under that name until he purchased the Minonk News on November 1, 1913, andconsolidated the two papers under the name of the Minonk News-Dispatch, which hehas published since that time. He has always been interested in politics and was electedcity clerk of Minonk in 1907 and re-elected in 1909. He has been a delegate tomany county and state conventions, and in 1928 was elected alternate delegate to theNational Republican Convention in Kansas City, Mo., for the seventeenth congressionaldistrict. In 1932 he was elected one of the two delegates from this district to theRepublican National Convention in Chicago. He is chairman of the Regional CodeAuthoritv for the divisions A-2 and A-5 of the Graphic Arts for the state of Illinois.Married Miss Jane C. Ofnll of Ashley. Illinois, on October 24, 1914. Three sons.Modern Woodman, Kiwanis.639