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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 238-239



JOHN A. MOYER.

	John A. Moyer is the editor and publisher of the Daily Mining and 
Financial Record of Denver, the only daily paper published in the world 
devoted to mining interests. Mr. Moyer is a native of Ohio. He was born 
at Upper Sandusky in March, 1878, and is a son of P. and Eva (Reading) 
Moyer, both of whom were born on the other side of the Atlantic. They 
came to America when about twenty years of age and settled in Ohio. The 
father there engaged in farming and afterward he removed with his 
family to Topeka, Kansas, where he continued in active connection with 
agricultural interests. Both he and his wife are still living there. 
They had a family of seven children.

	John A. Moyer, who was the third in order of birth, spent his 
early life in Topeka, Kansas, where he pursued his education in the 
public schools, supplemented by study in a business college. He then 
started out in the newspaper field and in 1898 came to Colorado 
Springs, where he secured a position on the Colorado Springs Telegraph. 
He remained with that paper for about four years and then removed to 
St. Joseph, Missouri, where he was connected with the St. Joseph 
Gazette. His identification with that paper 
in various capacities covered six years, after which he moved westward 
to San Francisco, California, and became one of the owners of the 
Orchard and Farm, a weekly journal devoted to agriculture and 
orchardizing. He conducted that paper successfully for two years, after 
which he sold out and returned to Colorado, taking up his abode in 
Denver. For three years he was with the Denver Post and during two 
years of that time he was also business manager of the Kansas City 
Post. He afterwards secured an interest in the Daily Mining and 
Financial Record and on the 1st of March, 1916, was made general 
manager of the Union Printing Company, which corporation owns the Daily 
Mining and Financial Record. He is now giving his energies to the 
publication of the Mining Record, which is devoted to mining, oil and 
financial news. It is the only daily paper of the kind published in the 
world and has a very large circulation. It contains everything of 
interest to the mining man and there is nothing of importance to the 
mining interests of Colorado that does not appear in its columns. The 
news is thus widely disseminated and, moreover, the large circulation 
of the paper makes it a very valuable advertising medium.

	On the 9th of October, 1902, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Mr. Moyer 
was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Fuller, a daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. H. E. Fuller, of Des Moines, Iowa. They now have two children: 
John Frederick Moyer, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1904, and now a 
junior in high school at Denver; and Geraldine Virginia, who was born 
in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1909, and is also attending the public 
schools of this city. Throughout practically his entire business career 
Mr. Moyer has devoted his activities to newspaper interests and in this 
connection has become prominent and popular. He is a well known editor 
of Colorado and stands high in journalistic circles in the state.