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Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
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HENRY WILSON CLENDENIN Henry Wilson Clendenin was born at Schellsburg, Pennsylvania, August I, 1838, and died at Springfield, Illinois, July 18, 1927. He was elected to the Hall October 12, 1928—Election 4. His public school education came to an end when he entered the office of the Burlington, Iowa, Hawkeye at the age of fifteen. In this office he worked under an editor who had been for some time a professor of English and he developed facility and power in writing under his direction. From 1852 until his death seventy-five years later his newspaper work was interrupted only by a short term enlistment in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was for a time€an executive on the Peoria Daily Transcript and for nearly fifty years editor of the Illinois State Register. From 1910 to 1927 he was partially blind but continued his editorial work as an adviser and director. [Page 41
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