Henry Clay Ashbaugh

Henry Clay Ashbaugh

Male 1844 - 1916  (71 years)

 

Ashbaugh, H.C.

The Eau Claire Leader

FORMER EDITOR PASSES AWAY
H.C. Ashbaugh Died Suddenly Monday Night At Lawrence, Kan.
Body Will Be Brought To Eau Claire For Burial - To Arrive Thursday
Henry C. Ashbaugh, former editor and publisher of the Eau Claire Free Press, is dead.
According to a telegram received yesterday by his son, Fred N. Ashbaugh of this city, death occurred suddenly last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. F. L. Kern, Lawrence, Kan., where he was living.
His wife, three sons, Fred N., this city, Louis B., Chippewa Falls, and William H., Mound City, Ill., and one daughter, Mrs. Kern, survive.
The body will be brought to Eau Claire for burial. It will arrive here Thursday noon. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday from the residence of Fred N. Ashbaugh, 1110 Fifth Ave., the Rev. M. Benson officiating. Burial will be at Forest Hill.
The late H.C. Ashbaugh was editor and publisher of the Eau Claire Free Press for twelve years, purchasing the paper from J.H. Waggoner in 1890. He continued the daily and weekly issues of the Free Press until 1902 when he sold out the paper being merged with The Evening Telegram. Mr. Ashbaugh retired from the active business and removed to Denver, Col., and later made his home at Lawrence, Kan., where his death occurred. He was 72 years old.
He was born in Ohio, August 21, 1844, his father being Lewis L. Ashbaugh, a Methodist minister. He received his education principally in a printing office and with the exception of three years that he served in the Union Army during the civil war he was engaged continually in the newspaper business at various places up to the time of his retirement in 1902 when he disposed of the Eau Claire Free Press.
He was working in a printing office when the war broke out in 1861 and he could not be induced to remain at home, but enlisted, October 16, 1861, in Company H, of the Forty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, though but seventeen years of age. He fought in many engagements, but was never severely wounded. He served his country until December 24, 1864. At the age of twenty years he started the New Boston "Herald," at New Boston, Ill., but was soon after induced to sell it, and then had charge of printing offices at Burlington, Iowa, and again at Fort Madison, same state, and for four years and a half was employed as printer on the St. Louis "Republican." He then bought out the Wilton Junction (Iowa) "Chronicle", but sold it the following year and purchased a half interest in the "Free Press" at Newton, Kas. At the latter place he started the Newton "Kansan" in 1872, and conducted it very successfully for fifteen years. He built the paper up and made it the largest in the county. Under the administrations of Presidents Hayes and Arthur he was postmaster for six years and a half. He sold his paper in 1887 and purchased a half interest in the "Daily Union." in Rock Island, Ill., where he remained until January, 1890. In April of that year he came to Eau Claire and bought the "Free Press."  - The Eau Claire Leader.  Wednesday, March 15, 1916.  

Owner/SourceHarvey County Genealogical Society
Date15 Mar, 1916
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