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Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
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WILLIAM OSBORNE DAVIS William Osborne Davis was born in Chester County, near Westchester, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1837, and died at Bloomington, Illinois, May 23, 1911. He was elected to the Hall October 3, 1929—Election 7. He was educated at public schools, a private academy at Norristown, Pennsylvania, and a boy's school at Charlottsville, New York. At the age of twenty-one he came west and taught school for two years at Normal, Illinois. Following this he prospected in Colorado, saw service in the Civil War and returned to operate a farm near Bloomington. In 1868 he became associated with his father-in-law, Jesse W. Fell, in the Bloomington Pantograph as business manager and started the connection that was to last for more than forty years and to affect in a notable way the conduct and standing of that paper. By 1871 he had become owner of the paper and the problem of editorial direction was his. He served as editor-publisher from that time until his death and left a stamp upon the paper which has given it leadership in the field of the community daily. MHM»tMiMMMfPMlMHfMIMMtlHMIMMIMMOI»MfMIIMMMMMMMMIlillMtllllMMIIMIMMItMM)MMIMIMtllHMMIMMMIIM(HHMMMMIMIMMMI)MMMMMIMIIMM*MIIIMHI1 [Pagt 49
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