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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

COLONEL EDWIN LANDVOIGT.
    Colonel Edwin Landvoigt, vice president of the Times Herald, published at
Forrest City, Arkansas, was born in what is now the District of Columbia, then a
part of Virginia, June 11, 1840, his parents being George and Dora (Kramer)
Landvoigt. The father was a native of Austria, while the mother was born in
Bremen, Germany. Coming to the United States in young manhood, George Landvoigt
located in Baltimore, Maryland. He had previously been a soldier in the Austrian
army and he was a botanist of renown, devoting his life to botanical work and to
the conduct of a greenhouse in Baltimore until he removed to Washington, D. C,
where he continued his activity along the same line, becoming recognized as one
of the foremost botanists in the capital city. He entered the United States army
with the rank of captain, serving with the regulars. He went to Mexico with the
American forces and was killed during the progress of the Mexican war. His wife
had come to the United States when but six years of age in company with friends,
her parents having previously died. She was reared in Washington, D. C, and was
there married. She lived to the advanced age of eighty-seven years. In their
family were four children: Charles E., who served as a surgeon in the
Confederate army and is deceased; John A., who was a member of the Federal army
during the Civil war and is also deceased; Doris W., who served with the Federal
forces; and Edwin.

    The last named attended a private school in Washington and was also a
student in the Georgetown College for a year. He afterward entered the employ of
the Buell & Blanchard Printing Company in Washington and while thus employed he
set up captions for Uncle Tom's Cabin. He also acted as proof reader on Hinton
Helper's Impending Crisis of the South. In 1858 he went to Memphis, Tennessee,
where he took charge of the job office of the Eagle-Inquirer, being thus
connected until the war, when he enlisted in the Confederate army, becoming a
member of Wicks Mounted Infantry. Thus two of the four brothers of the family
were in the Federal service and two with the Confederate forces. Colonel
Landvoigt was wounded at the battle of Perryville and sustained two wounds at
Fort Morgan, where he was captured. He was afterward taken to New Orleans and
Ship Island, also to Point Lookout and to Castle William in New York, thence he
was sent to Elmira, New York, where he was held as a prisoner of war until the
close of hostilities. He afterward returned to Washington, D. C, and later again
went to Memphis, where he entered the service of Whitmore Brothers as foreman on
the Evening Ledger. In 1885 he came to Forrest City, Arkansas, where he
purchased the Forrest City Times, which had been established by Bill Oury in
1871. This was a weekly paper, which he continued to publish until 1919, when he
organized a stock company and retired from active management. He had previously
consolidated this with the Herald under the name of the Times Herald. He remains
vice president of the company, owning stock, hut is not active in its control.
In connection with newspaper publication he also did commercial printing and
built up a business of gratifying proportions, having devoted the greater part
of his life to newspaper interests.

    Colonel Landvoigt was married in young manhood to Miss Fannie White, a
native of Kentucky, who died in 1902, leaving two children: Nettie, who is the
widow of Charles Power of Los Angeles, California;  and Dora, deceased.

    Colonel Landvoigt is today the oldest member of the Arkansas Press
Association and has frequently served as a delegate to various meetings of the
press association in this and other states. His political allegiance has always
been given to the democratic party and his discussion of vital political themes
through the press has been an influencing factor in molding public thought and
opinion on many occasions. Fraternally he was connected with the Knights of
Honor, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Episcopal
church. He has lived through many momentous periods in the history of the
country, watching its development since the beginning of the fifth decade in the
nineteenth century and at all times his influence and aid have been given on the
side of progress and improvement and in behalf of those plans and projects which
he believed would prove of public benefit and of worth to community,
commonwealth and country.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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