Biography of F M Daulton, Greene Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 133

F. M. Daulton, editor and proprietor of the Greene County Events, is a
resident of Gainesville, Ark., but was born in Ralls County, Mo., in 1832, and after
acquiring a common school education and attaining a suitable age he commenced working
on the Quincy Herald, at Quincy, Ill. After serving a five-years' apprenticeship, he
returned to Shelbyville, Mo., and established the Spectator in 1853, which he
conducted until the breaking out of the war, when he gave up this work to enlist as
major in the Twenty-first Missouri. [p.133] He served about two years, and was shot
through the neck at the battle of Iuka, in Mississippi. After receiving his discharge
he went to Ohio, where he spent two or three years, and next located in Indiana,
being engaged in publishing papers in both these States. After coming to Greene
County, Ark., in 1878, he established the Press, and in 1882 his present paper, which
has a circulation of over 500; this is a paper pure in tone and fearless in its
attacks upon the popular short-comings of the day. He was first married to Miss M. M.
Connor, who died, having borne the following children: Emma (Hindman), living, and
Jennie and Frank, deceased, the latter being killed in 1867, while braking on the
Iron Mountain Railroad. Mr. Daulton took for his second wife Miss Lizzie Lauker, by
whom he has five children: William, Charles, Daniel, Delia and Benjamin.