Arthur Alonzo Hargrave

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Arthur Alonzo Hargrave also written in the variant Arthur A. Hargrave (born August 15, 1856 in Portland Mills, Putnam County , Indiana , † September 13, 1957 in Rockville , Parke County , Indiana) was an American journalist and newspaper editor.

Life

Family and education

Arthur Alonzo Hargrave, the eldest of five children of the entrepreneur and farmer William Hargrave (1834-1917) and his wife Susan Bishop (1830-1898), who was born in 1856 near the historic city of Portland Mills , turned to the public schools in Rockville studying journalism at Wabash College in Crawfordsville in the state of Indiana to, there he acquired in 1881 the academic degree of Bachelor of Arts .

Arthur Alonzo Hargrave married on July 9, 1885 in Urmiah in Persia Marian (1858-1945), the daughter of the missionary Reverend EG Moore. From this connection came the daughters Marjorie and Ethel and the sons Palmer, Clarence and William. Hargrave died in Rockville, four weeks after turning 101 in the fall of 1957.

Professional background

Arthur Alonzo Hargrave began his professional career as a printer's devil , equivalent to an apprentice printer , in his home town of Rockville. During his college years he was a typesetter and reporter for newspapers in Crawfordsville. He then took up a position as a journalist at the Kansas City Journal , where he received a weekly wage of 10 US dollars . A little over a year later, Arthur Alonzo Hargrave accompanied Reverend James W. Hawks and other missionaries from the Rockville Presbyterian Church to Persia, where he took over the management of the Presbyterian Mission's printing house . After his return to the United States in 1887, he was appointed assistant editor of the Terre Haute Weekly Express in Terre Haute , Indiana .

The following year Arthur Alonzo Hargrave moved to Rockville, where he bought the weekly newspaper The Republican for $ 2,500 . Inspired by an old woodcut in his office depicting a man with a strong bent arm and a club in his hand, he began to write a column called Club Man's Talk . While he initially devoted himself to political issues, he later wrote articles from his farming youth , about the production of maple sugar , about slaughter and about his travels.

Arthur Alonzo Hargrave, who wrote his column until a few weeks before his death, received an honorary doctorate from Indiana University in 1954 . In 1975 he was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame .

publication

  • Book 3 of diary or journal of Arthur Alonzo Hargrave: opened at Terre Haute, Indiana on April 3, 1875, Archival material: English

literature

  • Who's who in the Midwest, volume IV., Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1954, p. 332.
  • Senior Citizens of America, Vol. 2, Senior Citizens of America, Washington, DC, 1956, pp. 62, 63.
  • Felice D Levy, Facts on File, Inc: Obituaries on file, Volume I (AR), Facts on File, New York, 1979, p. 252.
  • Vincent Tompkins, Richard Layman, Judith Baughman, Victor Bondi (Eds.): American decades / 1950 1950-1959, Gale Research, Detroit, MI, 1994, p. 331.

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personal data
SURNAME Hargrave, Arthur Alonzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hargrave, Arthur A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and newspaper editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland Mills, Putnam County , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1957
Place of death Rockville , Parke County , Indiana