Clendenin was co-publisher of the Democratic newspaper, the Illinois State Register. His partner was Thomas Rees, whose family also shares the same burial lot.
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Henry Wilson Clendenin, editor and co-publisher of the Illinois State Register and dean of Illinois editors, died last night at his residence following an attack of acute indigestion and a slight stroke of paralysis. Mr. Clendenin would have been 90 years old next August 1.
Clendenin, who in 1925 was the oldest active newspaper man in Illinois, started his career of journalism in 1852 in the office of The Burlington Iowa Hawkeye, where he studied typography and the newspaper business in general.
He was born Aug. 1, 1837, at Schellsburg, Pa., the son of Samuel Miller and Elizabeth Henry Clendenin. When he was 2 years old his parents came west, locating in Burlington, Ia., making the trip by boat from Pittsburgh, PA., down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. For a time his father was engaged in the drug business in Burlington, which at that time was a frontier town. From his home, Indian tepees often were seen on the hillsides which surrounded the town.
After mastering the mechanical departments of The Hawkeye, at the age of 20, he started to work his way back to Pennsylvania, finding employment on newspapers in Vincennes, Shelbyville, Ind.; Cincinnati, Columbus, Pittsburg and Philadelphia. He worked in Chicago for a time and then became newsroom foreman and telegraph editor of The Peoria Transcript in 1856.
The outbreak of the Civil war found him again in Philadelphia, where he enlisted in the Tenth Pennsylvania infantry. He saw service along the Potomac river and in the Shenandoah valley. His father died during the war and as soon as his term of enlistment expired he returned to the west, where he became telegraph editor of The Burlington Gazette-Argus. Two years later he became manager of The Metamora (Illinois) Sentinel and while there became a close personal friend of Adlai E. Stevenson, later vice president of the United States.
The Keokuk Daily Gate City next claimed his services for ten years, from 1866 to 1876, he acted as its foreman. An interview with Mrs. O'Leary, whose cow is credited with having started the great Chicago fire, was one of the interesting events of his connection with the Gate City.
With two partners, Mr. Clendenin bought The Keokuk Constitution in 1876 and became a business manager, one year later becoming editor. He was a firm Democrat and his paper soon was recognized as a strong party organ.
He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Morey, Monmouth, while in Keokuk, and in 1881 he and his wife moved to Springfield, where with Thomas Rees and another partner he became a part owner of The Springfield Register. As editor of The Register, a position which he held for more than forty years, he faced a long uphill fight with bankruptcy. Three other papers were in the field at the time in a town of 20,000 inhabitants. For several years the owners of The Register steered a precarious path until they had established their paper on a sound financial footing.
In 1910 his eyes failed him and for a time he was totally blind but he did not allow this to interfere with his work and from that time on he edited the paper through the help of his assistant who read to him a typed copy. He kept his hand firmly on the helm of the paper in spite of his handicap.
One of the notable features of Mr. Clendenin's career is the fact that for nearly fifty years his warm personal friend, Thomas Rees, was his partner in the business. The two men first met nearly sixty years ago in the printing office of William Rees, Thomas' brother, in Keokuk, Ia., and their first partnership began on The Keokuk Constitution in 1876. Thomas Rees, who has served as state senator, has been associated with Mr. CLendenin on The Consitution and The Register ever since that time.
He was a member of the First Congregational church of Springfield, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Jefferson Association of Washington, D. C., the Woodrow Wilson foundation, The National Geographic society and the Illinois Historical society.
His wife died in 1920 but he is survived by three sons, Henry F., George M., and Clarence R. Clendenin, Springfield, and one daughter, Mrs. Roscoe L. Ghering, Spokane, Wash.
The IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 7-29-1927
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Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
Name: Henry Wilson Clendenin
Birth Date: 1 Aug 1837
Birth Place: Schellsberg, PA
Death Date: 18 Jul 1927
Death Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
Burial Date: 22 Jul 1927
Burial Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Ill.
Cemetery Name: Oak Ridge
Death Age: 89
Occupation: Newspaper Publisher
Race: White
Marital status: W
Gender: Male
Residence: Springfield, Sangamon, Ill.
Father Name: S. M. Clendenin
Father Birth Place: Bedford County, PA.
Mother Name: Elizabeth Henry
Mother Birth Place: Bedford County, PA.
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Henry Wilson Clendenin, editor and co-publisher of the Illinois State Register and dean of Illinois editors, died last night at his residence following an attack of acute indigestion and a slight stroke of paralysis. Mr. Clendenin would have been 90 years old next August 1.
Clendenin, who in 1925 was the oldest active newspaper man in Illinois, started his career of journalism in 1852 in the office of The Burlington Iowa Hawkeye, where he studied typography and the newspaper business in general.
He was born Aug. 1, 1837, at Schellsburg, Pa., the son of Samuel Miller and Elizabeth Henry Clendenin. When he was 2 years old his parents came west, locating in Burlington, Ia., making the trip by boat from Pittsburgh, PA., down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. For a time his father was engaged in the drug business in Burlington, which at that time was a frontier town. From his home, Indian tepees often were seen on the hillsides which surrounded the town.
After mastering the mechanical departments of The Hawkeye, at the age of 20, he started to work his way back to Pennsylvania, finding employment on newspapers in Vincennes, Shelbyville, Ind.; Cincinnati, Columbus, Pittsburg and Philadelphia. He worked in Chicago for a time and then became newsroom foreman and telegraph editor of The Peoria Transcript in 1856.
The outbreak of the Civil war found him again in Philadelphia, where he enlisted in the Tenth Pennsylvania infantry. He saw service along the Potomac river and in the Shenandoah valley. His father died during the war and as soon as his term of enlistment expired he returned to the west, where he became telegraph editor of The Burlington Gazette-Argus. Two years later he became manager of The Metamora (Illinois) Sentinel and while there became a close personal friend of Adlai E. Stevenson, later vice president of the United States.
The Keokuk Daily Gate City next claimed his services for ten years, from 1866 to 1876, he acted as its foreman. An interview with Mrs. O'Leary, whose cow is credited with having started the great Chicago fire, was one of the interesting events of his connection with the Gate City.
With two partners, Mr. Clendenin bought The Keokuk Constitution in 1876 and became a business manager, one year later becoming editor. He was a firm Democrat and his paper soon was recognized as a strong party organ.
He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Morey, Monmouth, while in Keokuk, and in 1881 he and his wife moved to Springfield, where with Thomas Rees and another partner he became a part owner of The Springfield Register. As editor of The Register, a position which he held for more than forty years, he faced a long uphill fight with bankruptcy. Three other papers were in the field at the time in a town of 20,000 inhabitants. For several years the owners of The Register steered a precarious path until they had established their paper on a sound financial footing.
In 1910 his eyes failed him and for a time he was totally blind but he did not allow this to interfere with his work and from that time on he edited the paper through the help of his assistant who read to him a typed copy. He kept his hand firmly on the helm of the paper in spite of his handicap.
One of the notable features of Mr. Clendenin's career is the fact that for nearly fifty years his warm personal friend, Thomas Rees, was his partner in the business. The two men first met nearly sixty years ago in the printing office of William Rees, Thomas' brother, in Keokuk, Ia., and their first partnership began on The Keokuk Constitution in 1876. Thomas Rees, who has served as state senator, has been associated with Mr. CLendenin on The Consitution and The Register ever since that time.
He was a member of the First Congregational church of Springfield, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Jefferson Association of Washington, D. C., the Woodrow Wilson foundation, The National Geographic society and the Illinois Historical society.
His wife died in 1920 but he is survived by three sons, Henry F., George M., and Clarence R. Clendenin, Springfield, and one daughter, Mrs. Roscoe L. Ghering, Spokane, Wash.
The IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 7-29-1927
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Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
Name: Henry Wilson Clendenin
Birth Date: 1 Aug 1837
Birth Place: Schellsberg, PA
Death Date: 18 Jul 1927
Death Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
Burial Date: 22 Jul 1927
Burial Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Ill.
Cemetery Name: Oak Ridge
Death Age: 89
Occupation: Newspaper Publisher
Race: White
Marital status: W
Gender: Male
Residence: Springfield, Sangamon, Ill.
Father Name: S. M. Clendenin
Father Birth Place: Bedford County, PA.
Mother Name: Elizabeth Henry
Mother Birth Place: Bedford County, PA.
Clendenin was co-publisher of the Democratic newspaper, the Illinois State Register. His partner was Thomas Rees, whose family also shares the same burial lot.
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Henry Wilson Clendenin, editor and co-publisher of the Illinois State Register and dean of Illinois editors, died last night at his residence following an attack of acute indigestion and a slight stroke of paralysis. Mr. Clendenin would have been 90 years old next August 1.
Clendenin, who in 1925 was the oldest active newspaper man in Illinois, started his career of journalism in 1852 in the office of The Burlington Iowa Hawkeye, where he studied typography and the newspaper business in general.
He was born Aug. 1, 1837, at Schellsburg, Pa., the son of Samuel Miller and Elizabeth Henry Clendenin. When he was 2 years old his parents came west, locating in Burlington, Ia., making the trip by boat from Pittsburgh, PA., down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. For a time his father was engaged in the drug business in Burlington, which at that time was a frontier town. From his home, Indian tepees often were seen on the hillsides which surrounded the town.
After mastering the mechanical departments of The Hawkeye, at the age of 20, he started to work his way back to Pennsylvania, finding employment on newspapers in Vincennes, Shelbyville, Ind.; Cincinnati, Columbus, Pittsburg and Philadelphia. He worked in Chicago for a time and then became newsroom foreman and telegraph editor of The Peoria Transcript in 1856.
The outbreak of the Civil war found him again in Philadelphia, where he enlisted in the Tenth Pennsylvania infantry. He saw service along the Potomac river and in the Shenandoah valley. His father died during the war and as soon as his term of enlistment expired he returned to the west, where he became telegraph editor of The Burlington Gazette-Argus. Two years later he became manager of The Metamora (Illinois) Sentinel and while there became a close personal friend of Adlai E. Stevenson, later vice president of the United States.
The Keokuk Daily Gate City next claimed his services for ten years, from 1866 to 1876, he acted as its foreman. An interview with Mrs. O'Leary, whose cow is credited with having started the great Chicago fire, was one of the interesting events of his connection with the Gate City.
With two partners, Mr. Clendenin bought The Keokuk Constitution in 1876 and became a business manager, one year later becoming editor. He was a firm Democrat and his paper soon was recognized as a strong party organ.
He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Morey, Monmouth, while in Keokuk, and in 1881 he and his wife moved to Springfield, where with Thomas Rees and another partner he became a part owner of The Springfield Register. As editor of The Register, a position which he held for more than forty years, he faced a long uphill fight with bankruptcy. Three other papers were in the field at the time in a town of 20,000 inhabitants. For several years the owners of The Register steered a precarious path until they had established their paper on a sound financial footing.
In 1910 his eyes failed him and for a time he was totally blind but he did not allow this to interfere with his work and from that time on he edited the paper through the help of his assistant who read to him a typed copy. He kept his hand firmly on the helm of the paper in spite of his handicap.
One of the notable features of Mr. Clendenin's career is the fact that for nearly fifty years his warm personal friend, Thomas Rees, was his partner in the business. The two men first met nearly sixty years ago in the printing office of William Rees, Thomas' brother, in Keokuk, Ia., and their first partnership began on The Keokuk Constitution in 1876. Thomas Rees, who has served as state senator, has been associated with Mr. CLendenin on The Consitution and The Register ever since that time.
He was a member of the First Congregational church of Springfield, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Jefferson Association of Washington, D. C., the Woodrow Wilson foundation, The National Geographic society and the Illinois Historical society.
His wife died in 1920 but he is survived by three sons, Henry F., George M., and Clarence R. Clendenin, Springfield, and one daughter, Mrs. Roscoe L. Ghering, Spokane, Wash.
The IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 7-29-1927
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Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
Name: Henry Wilson Clendenin
Birth Date: 1 Aug 1837
Birth Place: Schellsberg, PA
Death Date: 18 Jul 1927
Death Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
Burial Date: 22 Jul 1927
Burial Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Ill.
Cemetery Name: Oak Ridge
Death Age: 89
Occupation: Newspaper Publisher
Race: White
Marital status: W
Gender: Male
Residence: Springfield, Sangamon, Ill.
Father Name: S. M. Clendenin
Father Birth Place: Bedford County, PA.
Mother Name: Elizabeth Henry
Mother Birth Place: Bedford County, PA.
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Henry Wilson Clendenin, editor and co-publisher of the Illinois State Register and dean of Illinois editors, died last night at his residence following an attack of acute indigestion and a slight stroke of paralysis. Mr. Clendenin would have been 90 years old next August 1.
Clendenin, who in 1925 was the oldest active newspaper man in Illinois, started his career of journalism in 1852 in the office of The Burlington Iowa Hawkeye, where he studied typography and the newspaper business in general.
He was born Aug. 1, 1837, at Schellsburg, Pa., the son of Samuel Miller and Elizabeth Henry Clendenin. When he was 2 years old his parents came west, locating in Burlington, Ia., making the trip by boat from Pittsburgh, PA., down the Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers. For a time his father was engaged in the drug business in Burlington, which at that time was a frontier town. From his home, Indian tepees often were seen on the hillsides which surrounded the town.
After mastering the mechanical departments of The Hawkeye, at the age of 20, he started to work his way back to Pennsylvania, finding employment on newspapers in Vincennes, Shelbyville, Ind.; Cincinnati, Columbus, Pittsburg and Philadelphia. He worked in Chicago for a time and then became newsroom foreman and telegraph editor of The Peoria Transcript in 1856.
The outbreak of the Civil war found him again in Philadelphia, where he enlisted in the Tenth Pennsylvania infantry. He saw service along the Potomac river and in the Shenandoah valley. His father died during the war and as soon as his term of enlistment expired he returned to the west, where he became telegraph editor of The Burlington Gazette-Argus. Two years later he became manager of The Metamora (Illinois) Sentinel and while there became a close personal friend of Adlai E. Stevenson, later vice president of the United States.
The Keokuk Daily Gate City next claimed his services for ten years, from 1866 to 1876, he acted as its foreman. An interview with Mrs. O'Leary, whose cow is credited with having started the great Chicago fire, was one of the interesting events of his connection with the Gate City.
With two partners, Mr. Clendenin bought The Keokuk Constitution in 1876 and became a business manager, one year later becoming editor. He was a firm Democrat and his paper soon was recognized as a strong party organ.
He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Morey, Monmouth, while in Keokuk, and in 1881 he and his wife moved to Springfield, where with Thomas Rees and another partner he became a part owner of The Springfield Register. As editor of The Register, a position which he held for more than forty years, he faced a long uphill fight with bankruptcy. Three other papers were in the field at the time in a town of 20,000 inhabitants. For several years the owners of The Register steered a precarious path until they had established their paper on a sound financial footing.
In 1910 his eyes failed him and for a time he was totally blind but he did not allow this to interfere with his work and from that time on he edited the paper through the help of his assistant who read to him a typed copy. He kept his hand firmly on the helm of the paper in spite of his handicap.
One of the notable features of Mr. Clendenin's career is the fact that for nearly fifty years his warm personal friend, Thomas Rees, was his partner in the business. The two men first met nearly sixty years ago in the printing office of William Rees, Thomas' brother, in Keokuk, Ia., and their first partnership began on The Keokuk Constitution in 1876. Thomas Rees, who has served as state senator, has been associated with Mr. CLendenin on The Consitution and The Register ever since that time.
He was a member of the First Congregational church of Springfield, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Jefferson Association of Washington, D. C., the Woodrow Wilson foundation, The National Geographic society and the Illinois Historical society.
His wife died in 1920 but he is survived by three sons, Henry F., George M., and Clarence R. Clendenin, Springfield, and one daughter, Mrs. Roscoe L. Ghering, Spokane, Wash.
The IL State Journal, Springfield, IL, 7-29-1927
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Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
Name: Henry Wilson Clendenin
Birth Date: 1 Aug 1837
Birth Place: Schellsberg, PA
Death Date: 18 Jul 1927
Death Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
Burial Date: 22 Jul 1927
Burial Place: Springfield, Sangamon, Ill.
Cemetery Name: Oak Ridge
Death Age: 89
Occupation: Newspaper Publisher
Race: White
Marital status: W
Gender: Male
Residence: Springfield, Sangamon, Ill.
Father Name: S. M. Clendenin
Father Birth Place: Bedford County, PA.
Mother Name: Elizabeth Henry
Mother Birth Place: Bedford County, PA.
Bio by: Connie Nisinger
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