Howard-Wabash-Huntington County IN Archives Biographies.....Kautz, John Arthur 1860 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

JOHN ARTHUR KAUTZ.

   John Arthur Kautz was born in Wabash county, Indiana, September 26, 1860, his
parents being Henry Kautz and Eliza (Baker) Kautz. His father was a native of
Maryland and his mother of Ohio. They came to Wabash county with their parents
in an early day and married there. The father of the subject was a merchant at
Andrews, Indiana, and at present he is living retired at that place. His wife,
mother of the subject, died at Andrews, March 23, 1908. They were the parents of
three children, two daughters and our subject. The sisters of the subject are
Mary, the oldest of the family and the wife of John H. King, of Peru, Indiana;
Addie, the youngest of the family, is the wife of James L. Flinn, and they
reside at Montpelier, Ohio.

   His boyhood was spent at Andrews, Huntington county, Indiana, whither his
parents had removed in 1865. He was educated in the public schools, graduating
from the high school of that town, He attended the North Indiana Normal School
at Valparaiso, Indiana, two summers, teaching school in the winter. At the age
of twenty he entered the freshman class at Butler College, Indianapolis, from
which he graduated four years later. In the succeeding year he was given the
degree of Master of Arts by his alma mater, his post-graduate reading being a
special course in English literature.

   On May 9, 1887, Mr. Kautz, in partnership with Mr. H. E. McMonigal, purchased
the Kokomo Tribune. He came immediately to this city and entered upon the
conduct of the paper. On July 1, 1897, he purchased his partner's interest in
the Tribune and has since been sole owner of the property and has had conduct of
it in all its departments.

   In the twenty-one years during which Mr. Kautz has had control of the Kokomo
Tribune the paper has enjoyed uninterrupted prosperity and has advanced to a
position of large influence, not only in its own field but throughout the ninth
congressional district of Indiana. It is known far and wide throughout the state
as an unusually prosperous and influential journal. The paper had its beginning
in the town of New London, in western Howard county, the first issue being under
date of July 12, 1848. The name of the paper then was the Pioneer, one entirely
fitting, as it was one of the earliest publications of this territory. New
London was at that time the county seat and the county's most important town.
Later Kokomo was made the county seat and the Pioneer, transferred to Kokomo,
became the Tribune. It continued as a weekly paper until September 3, 1883, when
the daily edition was started. Two editions are published daily, the farmers'
rural mail edition at 7130 in the morning and the city edition at 4 in the evening.

   Mr. Kautz has been honored with the presidency of the Republican Editorial
Association of Indiana, has been a delegate a number of times to the National
Editorial Association and also to the Republican National Editorial Association.
He served as postmaster on the appointment of President Roosevelt, and was a
delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago, June 16, 1908.

   He is a member of the Main Street Christian church, a Knight Templar, an Elk
and a member of the Kokomo Country Club and the Kokomo Automobile Club. He has
always taken a lively interest in public education and while a member of the
city school board he made a visit to Andrew Carnegie and interested that
philanthropist in the donation he afterwards made endowing the Kokomo Carnegie
Library. He served for a time as a member of the board of trustees of Butler
College, his alma mater.

   Our subject was married in 1886 at Wabash, Indiana, to Inez Gillen, a native
of that place and the daughter of Dr. H. H. and Mary (Cartmell) Gillen, natives
of Kentucky and early settlers of Indiana. The subject and wife are the parents
of four daughters, Bernice, Cordelia, Dorothy and Kathryn, all bright and winsome.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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