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Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
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JOHN WITHNAL BAILEY John Withnal Bailey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 15, 1830, and died at Princeton, Illinois, May 22, 1903. He was elected to the Hall October 4, 1929 —Election 10. After a few years in the common schools'-of Cincinnati John entered upon an apprenticeship in a job office at the age of thirteen. He became interested in writing short stories and sketches and obtained employment as a reporter on various dailies including that of his father. After experience with a Republican paper in Connersville, Indiana, the Tiffin, Ohio, Tribune, the Toledo Daily Commercial, and the Cincinnati Enquirer Bailey spent a winter in Washington as a political correspondent. His decision to move west came after a severe illness in 1862. He purchased the Bureau County Republican and began to build it into a great newspaper. In a short time he was forced to enlarge it though he did not make a practice of selling either advertising or subscriptions. He worked on the theory that the paper should be made worth while editorially and the business side would, to some extent, take care of itself. His efforts were rewarded by the development of the largest circulation in the country weekly field. He was a charter member and one of the first presidents of the Illinois Press Association. [Page ;j
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