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EARL NEWSPAPER EDITOR DIES ["Ottawa Evening Herald," 29 Sep 1903, page 2, column 3] A recent issue of a newspaper published at Trumansburg, NY, gives an interesting biographical sketch of William Austin, a leading attorney, who was an early-day settler in this county, and who established a paper at Centropolis. From 1857 to 1858 he was in the territory of Kansas, establishing the "Kasas Leader," a free state newspaper at Centropolis, Franklin county, in that territory, and publishing the first number there of June 3, 1857. he was clerk of he board of county commissioners of that county and the first register of deeds therein and recorded the first deeds and mortgages in and for said county. Associated with him in the newspaper enterprise was Elias J. Beardsley, afterwards superintendent of public schools in the city of Elmira. ["Ottawa Evening Herald," 30 Sep 1903, page 5, column 2] F. A. Marcell read the notice in last night's Herald, referring to William Austin, formerly publisher of a newspaper at Centropolis, with a great deal of interest. Mr. Marcell remembers Mr. Austin very well. Austin published the paper at Centropolis when Mr. Marcell was a small boy. The office was only a few yards from the Marcell home, and F. A. Marcell often went over and helped with the work of getting out the paper. The home of the Centropolis newspaper was a log cabin of one room, with no floor. As Mr. Marcell remembers it, C. W. Goodin, of Ottawa, once ran a paper at Minneola. |
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