Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Bastian, Fred K 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Fred K. Bastian, senior partner of Bastian Bros., publishers and proprietors 
of the Fulton Journal (see history of the paper elsewhere in this work); was 
born in Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1856, and is the son of Van S. and Ann E. 
Bastian. He came to Illinois with his parents in 1861, and was brought up on a 
farm near Prophetstown, this county. He received his primary education in the 
district school, became a student of Princeton (Ill.) High School and of 
Wheaton (Ill.) College, and subsequently attended the Whiteside County Normal 
School three terms. He received a first-grade certificate and taught school 
three years. He was engaged in various employments till October, 1879, when he 
was employed as reporter on the Sterling Gazette. That connection continued 
till April, 1881, when he purchased the Journal office of the Sterling Gazette 
Company. He changed its politics from Republican to Independent-Democratic. 
Aug. 21, 1881, his elder brother, A. W., purchased a half interest in the 
office, and the business has since been conducted under the firm name of 
Bastian Brothers. In September of that year they changed the paper from an 
eight-column folio to a nine-column folio, weekly, patent inside; and in 
November following the patent business was discontinued and the paper wholly 
printed at home. The paper was issued in that form till October 30, 1882, when 
it was made a seven-column semi-weekly, all home print, and published Tuesdays 
and Fridays. The Journal was the official paper of the county during the years 
1883-4-5. The office is supplied with a power press and good outfit of 
material for all sorts of job work. Without severing his connection with the 
Journal, Mr. Bastian went to Grand Forks, Dak., in July, 1882, and engaged as 
a reporter on the Grand Forks Daily and Weekly News. He continued on the News 
staff until November of that year, when he returned to Fulton and the Journal 
office. Mr. Bastian has served one year as City Marshal of Fulton. In politics 
he is a Democrat. He was married at Mendota, Ill., Aug. 21, 1884, to Miss 
Nellie J. Barton, daughter of William and Maria L. Barton. Mrs. Bastian was 
born in La Salle Co., Ill.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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