Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Whelan, Kosciusko February 17, 1833 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Jackson Township
p. 606 & 607

Kosciusko Whelan was born Feb. 17, 1833, in Germantown, Montgomery Co., Ohio, 
and is the second living son of Thomas Dailey and Elizabeth Whelan. He came 
with his parents to Cambridge City in 1840, and was educated in the public 
schools. When about sixteen years old he entered the printing office of the 
Cambridge City Reveille, and two years later went to Centreville, Ind., thence 
to St. Louis, Mo., where he was engaged in various offices. He then returned 
to Cambridge City, and, in company with I. L. Pritchard, published a literary 
paper in Milton, called the Western Budget, to which paper Louisa M. Chitwood 
contributed some of her earliest political gems. The paper not proving 
remunerative, it was moved to Knightstown, thence to this city, where, in 
connection with Samuel H. Hoshour, he commenced the publication of the City 
Item, but at the end of a year the paper was sold to the Hon. T. Develin, and 
was merged into the Cambridge City News. Mr. Whelan went to Cincinnati and 
worked fifteen months on the Commercial, when he returned to Cambridge City 
and worked for Develin. He subsequently commenced the publication of the 
Cambridge City News and Daily Item being associated with Buckingham and Waltz, 
and in six months they sold out. He returned to Cincinnati and worked on the 
Gazette during the Fremont campaign in 1857. He returned home and entered the 
Bulletin office with G. R. Seig, and at the end of a year they formed a 
partnership, which continued three years. "He then, in company with Seig and 
Reller, commenced the publication of the Flag of the Free, continuing till the 
breaking out of the late war. Mr. Whelan served one year in the hospital 
department at Nashville, Tenn., since which time he has filled several city 
offices. He was City Clerk seven years, two of which he served as Collector, 
and as U.S. Marshal on various occasions. Mr. Whelan was married in 1857 to 
Miss M. C. Bowling, of Winchester, Va. They have four children---Thomas, 
clerking with C. B. Elliott; Lizzie, teaching in the primary department at the 
Germantown schools; Elmer Grant, mail messenger, and Ernest, attending school. 
Mr. Whelan is at present a member of the City Council of the Third Ward and 
has served about two years.


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