tucky, and Clarence J., who lost his life by being thrown from his buggy, near Louisville, in 1873. Mrs. Prentice died in 1868, and her husband, January 21, 1870. Walter N. Haldeman, president of the Courier-Journal Company, was born at Maysville, Ky., April 27, 1821, and educated at Maysville Academy, along with U. S. Grant, W. H. Wadsworth, T. H. Nelson, R. H. Collins, and others of note. In 1840, he became book-keeper in the Louisville Journal office; in 1844, he started the Daily Dime paper, soon converted into the Morning Courier, which he conducted successfully until 1861, when it was suppressed by military domina tion. It reappeared soon at Nashville, and at other points in the Confederacy, after. At the close of the war, in 1865, Mr. Haldeman resumed the publication of the Courier in Louisville, with marked success, until 1868, when, in concert with Henry Watterson, of the Journal, the two dailies were blended, and appeared as the Courier-Journal, which has since been the leading paper of the South, under the same management. The Louisville Democrat was soon also absorbed into this combination. The Courier-Journal building is the finest newspaper edifice west of the Alleghanies, completed in 1876. Mr. Haldeman is a man of most versatile, but practical, talents, and endowed with remarkable energy, persistency, and sagacity for business success. His life has been a series of marvelous successes, often under the frowns of discouragement. Hon. Henry Watterson was born in Washington City, February 16, 1840, and was well educated, mainly under private tutors. He began his literary and editorial career in New York and Washington until the civil war. Casting his fortunes with the South, he edited the Nashville Banner, afterward the Rebel, at Chattanooga. After the war, he returned to the Banner, visited Europe in 1866, and on his return became editor of the Louisville Journal, and finally of the Courier-Journal, after the consolidation, and yet holds that position. He was elected to Congress in 1876, in which year he was mainly instrumental in the nomination of Tilden for the presidency. Mr. Watterson is distinguished for his brilliancy and elegance as a writer and speaker, and has proved himself an adroit and powerful political leader for the last twenty years. His defective eyesight greatly interfered with his EDITORS OF KENTUCKY. 767 studies in youth, and gave a desultory cast to his education. He began, at nineteen, a regular writer on the States, a Democratic paper of Washington City. Next, he became editorial manager of the Democratic Review, to the breaking out of the war. In 1865, he was married to Miss Rebecca Ewing, of Tennessee, a daughter of the Hon. Andrew Ewing. HON. HENRY WATTERSON. Emmett Garvin Logan, editor of the Louisville Evening Times, was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, October 9, 1848; attended "old field" schools in winter, and worked on a farm in summer, until eighteen years of age; attended Professor J. W. Dodd's Classical School, in Shelbyville, for three years; then Washington University, Lexington, Virginia, under the presidency of General Robert E. Lee; was one of the guard of honor to conduct the burial services at his death; was elected editor of the college paper; returned to Kentucky, and established the Shelby Courant; afterward accepted a position on the editorial staff of the Courier-Journal, taking charge of the Kentucky and Southern news department, and making it a decided feature of the paper, the originality, the brilliancy, and wit of his writings being EMMETT G. LOGAN. everywhere recognized. Joining with Governor Underwood and Colonel E. Polk Johnson in the publication of the Intelligencer, at Bowling Green, for a time, he was soon recalled to take charge as managing editor of the Courier-Journal, writing many of the leading editorials of that day. 1882, when Governor Underwood established the Cincinnati News, Mr. Logan was selected as the managing editor, at a liberal salary. Under his leadership, that paper became a main. factor of political power in Ohio, especially in aid of the election of Governor Hoadly. In 1884, he joined with Colonel E. Polk Johnson again, in the establishment of the Evening Times, and which he yet continues to edit with ability and brilliancy. Mr. Logan is gifted as a versatile and ready writer, and especially for the terse, piquant, and pungent style which has marked his individuality as an editor. Colonel C. E. Sears, editor of the Evening Post, was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, in 1842; was educated at Dr. Gessner Harrison's preparatory school, at Randolph, Macon College, and the University of Virginia; entered the army in 1861, served with General COLONEL CHARLES E. SEARS. Fitzhugh Lee, and was present at Appomattox Court-house, at the surrender. In 1867, moved to Kentucky; was the editor of the Paducah Kentuckian, subsequently chief editorial writer on the Courier-Journal; then started the Age; then became editor of the Post, in 1881, which he has made a success, where no evening paper was ever able to survive before. Colonel Robert Morrison Kelly was born at Paris, Kentucky, Septem ber 22 1836, and educated in the schools of Paris and vicinity. Here he taught school two years, and two years more in Owingsville Academy. Studied law under Hon. J. Smith Hurtt, and opened an office for the practice at the countyseat of Bath county. In 1860, he removed to Cynthiana and formed a partnership with Garrett Davis, his uncle by marriage. In 1861, he entered the Federal army as captain of a company in the Fourth Kentucky infantry, under Colonel Speed S. Fry; was promoted to be major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel, successively, to October, 1864, and mustered out September 1, 1865, after over four years of service. In 1866, he was appointed collector of in THE PRESS AN EDUCATIONAL FACTOR. ternal revenue for the Seventh district, with office at Lexington. 769 Resigned in 1869, to take the editorial control of the Louisville Commercial. In 1873, he was appointed pension agent by President Grant, which office he has just vacated and transferred to his successor, General Don Carlos Buell, March, 1886. Kentucky has been as fruitful in the production of editors of talent who have won distinction in their day, and wielded a power that, perhaps more than any other one agency, shaped the parties and governments of the country, both Federal and State, as her sister Commonwealths. We might add to the list such men as Bradford, Wickliffe, Penn, Harney, and a host of others, did the occasion admit. It may justly be said that the editorial profession has shown itself worthy of encomium in the faithfulness with which it has performed its duty as an educator of the people. Indeed, it is an important factor in the educational forces, ceaselessly at work in the great. cause of human enlightenment. |