| |
| |
Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
,,m IIMtm miMHIIHHMM IIHtHHMIUMMIIMN IlltUlliltlll mil IIUIIMIIIMIIIIIMIMllMNM|llllllllf MltfMINIMIMMMIM HMIMIMf HENRY MEANS PINDELL Henry Means Pindell was born at St. Joseph, Missouri, December 23, i860, and died at Northport Point, Michigan, August 8, 1924. He was elected to the Hall October 4, 1929—Election 12. He was graduated from De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, in 1884 and went to work as a reporter. He became in turn editor of the Wabash, Indiana, Times, reporter on The Chicago Tribune, and city editor of the Illinois State Register, Springfield, Illinois. In 1889 Pindell moved to Peoria and founded The Peoria Herald. Later he purchased The Peoria Transcript and Peoria Times. A succession of purchases, mergers, and consolidations left him at the head of two important papers in Peoria, the Transcript, in the morning field, and the Journal, in the evening field. Under his direction the papers became notable for their excellence and their public service. He held a number of positions of trust and declined appointment by Woodrow Wilson as ambassador to Russia. „ IMMIIIiMIMIIIMIIMfMIMIMIIIIIIIUI M.M.MHMM ' I « "H MM »«»'«»<« "W»'h [Page 57
| |
