Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . FRANK P. MLENNAN. CHARLES HARRIS. ANNALS OK EMlOKIA AND LVON COUNTY. Jacob Stotler came witli his parentsfrom Cumberland, Maryland, to Clintoncounty, Ohio, when he was but a Ohio he learned the printing trade,and in May, 1S57, came to Emporia withthe late Senator Plumb, as foreman of theEmporia NevDs. He soon became inter-ested in the paper and before the com-pletion of the second voluiTie was the soleowner of the paper. In this business hespent over a quarter of a century, andachieved success as an editor and pub-lisher. During this time he was fou
Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . FRANK P. MLENNAN. CHARLES HARRIS. ANNALS OK EMlOKIA AND LVON COUNTY. Jacob Stotler came witli his parentsfrom Cumberland, Maryland, to Clintoncounty, Ohio, when he was but a Ohio he learned the printing trade,and in May, 1S57, came to Emporia withthe late Senator Plumb, as foreman of theEmporia NevDs. He soon became inter-ested in the paper and before the com-pletion of the second voluiTie was the soleowner of the paper. In this business hespent over a quarter of a century, andachieved success as an editor and pub-lisher. During this time he was fourterms in the lower house of the Kansaslegislature, twice as speaker, and oneterm as state senator. In these offices hewas an active and successful promoter oflocal and general interests. He servedover two terms as postmaster at Emporiaand resigned. He has held various otherpositions and has edited other papers indifferent parts of the fe-iir.^^^^?? OLD NEWS ?• OFFICE. Erected in 1837. John R. Graham came to Einporia inthe spring of 1S70, from Erie, Pennsyl-vania, where he had for some four yearsprevious been engaged in newspaper bus-iness, first, as city editor of the EricDaily Dispatc/i, and then as editor andpublisher of the Eric Gazette, the paperupon which Horace Greely served his ap-prenticeship before going to New \orkcity. He next began work in the otlice of the Emporia Neivs^ and soon purchaseda third interest, the new firm beingknown as Stotler, Rowland cV Graham,soon afterwards as Stotler ie 1S78 it started the Daily News andalso added a profitable real estate busi-ness. The News, daily and weekly, undertheir management, was a great after coming to Emporia Mr. Gra-ham agitated the starting of a buildingand loan association, then hardly heardof outside ot Philadelphia, and becamepresident of the first association of thatkind in the city, if not in the state. Theoutgrowth of that
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