Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-03
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF SIOUX
CITY JOURNAL DIES OF com.
PLicATioN OF DISEASES. 4
SERVED FOUR TERMS IN
CONGRESS FROM eleventh
Prominent Ia Councils Of Republican
Party Of Iowa and Once Candidate
Fer oevsrner- Came to lows in Early
Day-First Newspaper Venture at
Cedar. Fails.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Sioux City. Feb. George D. Per-
kins. aged "A, for forty five years edi-
tor and publisher of the Sioux City
Journal. died at 6:15 o'clock this morn
ing in hospital here of complica-
ton of diseases.
Until his fatal illness Mr.. Perkins
was at his desk in the Journal office
daily and took an active part in the
management of the newspaper. He re-
Gently made plans for a new $175,000
home for the Journal. work on which
has begun.
Mr.. Perkins was prominent In the
councils of the republican party and
had served four terms In congress for
the Eleventh district, 1S91-1sss.
Mr.. Perkins was always a friend of
the printers, interested in the well
fare OF his employees, and was fire.
quently referred to among members OF
the craft as the George w. Childs of
the west.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been made.
Native Of New York.
Mr.. Perkins was born in Orleans
county, New York, Feb. 20, 1910. His
father was a lawyer. On account Of the
fathers i'll health the family moved to
Indiana, while George was yet a small
boy: then to Milwaukee. where they re-
manned two years. and then to Baraboo.
Wis, where George D. Perkins passed
his boyhood.
The father died in 1852, leaving the
mother to look after a family Of two
sons and two daughters. Henry A..
the older son. entred q printing office.
George D. expected to become a farmer
and hired out to pitch hay at SO a
month. The agricultural life failing to
appeal to him, he followed in the foot
steps Of his brother, his first pay as q
printer being 81 a week without
ooard). Before he left Baraboo. how
ever, he was earning 81 day, the
journeyman's wage at that time. Henry
A. sold his interest in the Baraboo Re-
public, and they moved to Iowa in the
issued the first number of the Cedar
Falls Gazette.
Went to Front in 1862.
On Aug. IL, 1862, George d. enlisted
in Company B, Thirty first Iowa. in
fantry. That same winter he was taken
sick and was confined in Jefferson Bar
racks in Missouri. So serious was his
illness he was not allowed to go to the
front with his regiment and on Jan. ~,
1863, was honorably discharged and
taken home by his brother to die. The
doctors had said he could not possibly
live more than few weeks.
The Cedar Falls Gazette passed into
other hands in the summer Of 1866, and
the brothers went to Chicago, opening
gummed label house, the first concern
of the kind in the United States, with
the exception Of small establishment
in Ohio. which they absorbed.
George DIS next venture was as
agent for the Northwestern Associated
Press. a news distributing agency
which served papers in Illinois (outside
of Chicago,) Iowa and Nebraska,
Locates in Sioux City.
Longing still-to own his own paper,
Mr.. Perkins began looking around for
location and decided upon Sioux
City. 1t was in the spring of 1869 that
he purchased from Mahlon Gore (now
living at Orlando, F'la.,) the Journal,
which Mr.. Gore had operated for sew
eral years with Indifferent success as
a republican paper. The first number
under Mr.. Perkins management was
issued May I, 1869. The Journal at
chat time was a weekly paper. Sioux
City was but a frontier village, most
Of the business houses being on or in
the vicinity Of the. Missouri river
bank.
Henry A. followed to Sioux City In
the same year and Joined in the en-
terprise. He looked after the business
end Of the paper up to the time Of his
death, in 1884. George D. paying spe-
cial attention to the editorial end. Mrs
Elizabeth II. .Boehmler, sister, for
many years was society editor and lent
her assistance in getting cut the pa
per long before 1t attained to the dig
nifty Of a society department. She
now lives at Alpine, CAL
Daily Issue in 1870.
The Journal started issuing daily on
April 19, 1870. Since then it has al
ways been regarded as one Of the gooC
was the firSk paper in Iowa to issue on
Monday morning, the first to install
perfecting press and the first to install
linotype machines Up to his last ill-
ness Mr.. Perkins continued to do six
full days work a week, TO say nothing
OF half day on Sunday. In spite of
his advanced years he was spoken of
as the hardest working man about the
place. He kept in close touch with all
the departments Of the paper, was a
stickler for accuracy and attractive ,
makeup, and found his chief delight in
rummangfng thru the exchanges day
after day, carrying on q battle Of wits
with brothers in the profession. He
wrote all his copy on the typewriter.
generally putting a cob pipe as he
pounded II out. and his letler-perfect
copy was the delight Of the printers
ana the envy Of the under editors and
reporters. ~
resninsnt In Politics.
~. Retkins:stass prominent in re- (