Tipton-Kosciusko-Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Pershing, M. W. 1849 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   M. W. PERSHING, editor and proprietor of the Tipton Advocate, was born
January 15, 1849, in Warsaw, Kosciusko Co., Ind. He is the eldest of five
children, all now living, born to David R. and Sarah M. (Sellers) Pershing,
natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively. They were married in Wabash
County, Ind., in 1848, and are of German descent. Mr. David R., during the
greater part of his life, has been a journalist. He conducted papers at Warsaw
and Rochester. He was editor of the Fort Wayne Daily Gazette, also of the Muncie
Times, besides being connected with other papers throughout the State. He and
his wife are now living at Muncie, Ind. He is now in the mercantile business.
Prior to the war, he was a Democrat, but is now a Republican. He has been
prominent in public life, both as a journalist and as a public officer; he is a
member of I. O. O. F. M. W. Pershing received a good education, and at nineteen
years of age became a school teacher in his native county. A year after, in
association with S. T. Montgomery, he established the Kokomo Journal, a
Republican paper. Twelve months afterward, it was sold to the Kokomo Dispatch.
In 1876, for a period of three months, he edited the Tipton Republican. In
September, 1878, he established the Tipton Advocate, which has achieved eminent
success. This paper has a sound financial basis, the subscription list is large,
and in addition there is a good job-work trade. Soon after starting this paper,
he received the nickname of "Marvelous Persimmons," which has since become his
well-known title. Mr. Pershing is a zealous Republican, and a most valuable and
efficient worker for his party in Tipton County. He is an able and forcible
writer, and, through his editorials in the columns of the Advocate, has done
much to reduce the heavy Democratic majority in the county; he is always to the
front in all measures of public improvement, and is well posted on the questions
and issues of the day; he is a member of I. O. O. F. December 5, 1872, he was
married to Mrs. Melissa A. Cox, of Tipton, a native of Union County. They have
one child, Cora E. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pershing are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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