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Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
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DAVID WRIGHT BARKLEY David Wright Barkley was born at Fairfield, Illinois, May 21, 1842, and died at Denver, Colorado, July 7, 1908. He was elected to the Hall October 3, 1929— Election 5. He had little formal schooling and his education was capped by a short term at McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois. After a brief experience in business, government positions, and publication work Barkley purchased the War Democrat of Fairfield and at the beginning of the year 1866 changed the name to the Wayne County Press. He edited the paper for twenty-two years, during which time he served his county and district in a distinguished way both as editor and public official. He was president of the board of trustees of the Methodist church in Fairfield for several years and a representative for his district in the state legislature in 1872. In 1887 he sold the Press and moved farther west. At Pueblo, Colo., he published a monthly paper, the Cactus, and at Rocky Ford a weekly, The Rocky Ford Enterprise. He was editor of the latter publication at the time of his last illness. He died at the home of his daughter in Denver. [Pag* 45
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