Bio of Paradis, Ed A. (b.1850) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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, editor and proprietor of the Plainview "News," though not
one of the pioneers of Wabasha county, is nevertheless in some respects a
pioneer, having done pioneer newspaper work in Illinois in 1870 and in
Kansas in 1873. Mr. Paradis was the son of J. B. Paradis, a contractor and
builder, whose father was a wealthy landed proprietor and manufacturer of
Lacadie, Canada, where he was born on July 6, 1850. The family soon after
removed to Kankakee county, Illinois. Ed, being the youngest of the family
of thirteen children, was deprived of the educational advantages enjoyed
by his brothers, by the financial failure of his father in 1857. At the
age of nine he was cast upon the world to earn his own living. This he did
by doing farm work at first. At the age of sixteen he adopted his father's
trade, that of a carpenter. He soon found employment with the American
Bridge Co., of Chicago, and remained with it until 1870, when he joined
his brother, J. B. Paradis, in establishing the Momence (Illinois)
"Reporter," their capital stock being, all told, forty dollars. This
venture was a success, and in August, 1873, he joined J. S. Paradis,
another brother, in a similar enterprise at Clyde, Kansas where they
started the Clyde "Local Reporter." Owing to grasshopper raids success did
not attend this undertaking, and in April, 1875, with an empty purse, Mr.
Paradis found himself an humble compositor in St. Paul. In the fall of
1876 he found himself once more on his feet, and became one of the
proprietors of the "National," a French and English newspaper. Financial
reverses again came upon him, and the following August he came to
Plainview. In August, 1878, he became a half owner of the Plainview
"News," and bought the remaining half-interest of his partner, H. J.
Byron, April 1, 1882, since which time he has continued sole proprietor of
the sheet. In religious matters Mr. Paradis may be set down as a
Freethinker. He was married to Miss Jennie Hammil in St. Paul, October 9,
1877.