Washington Co., AR - Biographies - John P. Stafford *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** John P. Stafford, editor of the Springdale News, was born in the town in which he now resides in 1868, and is the youngest of three children born to the marriage of John Stafford and Mary Holcomb. He was left father less when a child, and at an early day began serving an apprenticeship at the printer's trade in Springdale, Ark.: at the end of three years he began working on the Fayetteville Democrat, continuing about two years. Subsequent to this he attended school in Missouri for a short period, and in May, 1887, returned to his home in Springdale and became proprietor of the Springdale News, being next to the youngest editor in the State of Arkansas. His paper was at first a small six-column, patent outside paper, but is now a five-column quarto, and is published in the interests of the Democratic party. It is ably edited, and has a rapidly increasing circulation. Mr. Stafford was married Tuesday, November 13, 1888, to Miss Lena Claypool, of Springdale.