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Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
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•IMttlMmlllllHIIlMMMIIIHIMMMIlMIIIIIMMMIMIMMIMtlliMltUIMIIMI SIMEON FRANCIS Simeon Francis was born at Wcthcrsficld, Connecticut, May 14, 1796, and died at Portland, Oregon, October 25, 1872. He was elected to the Hall October 3, 1929—Election 6. He served an apprenticeship as a printer after a few years of schooling. At the age of 28 he launched his first paper at New London, Connecticut, and two years later went to Buffalo, New York, to publish the Buffalo Emporium. In 1831 he came to Illinois and with his brother, Josiah, established the Sangamo Journal at Springfield. This paper later became the Illinois State Journal and Francis continued as a co-editor until 1855. For several years he devoted himself to the political interests of Abraham Lincoln and was active in behalf of Lincoln before and after leaving the State Journal. He left Springfield in 1859 to go to Oregon in behalf of Lincoln. Aside from his publicity work he had only one important journalistic experience in Oregon and that was as editor of the Portland Oregonian for a short time in i860. Francis was army paymaster from 1861 to 1870, at which time he retired. ll, 'l''»IIIHNllini(nrMlMIMMHHI]nilfnillhlMIHIMIMMinillMllniMHIIIMlllllllt1|ll||MH1lnMHinilM01IIIIMHUIMH1HnillMUlHllMinMihniUIMnuMnUliiUinnilMM [Page 61
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