Callaway County MO Archives History .....CALDWELL COUNTY MAN IN NEWSPAPER BUSINESS OVER SIXTY YEARS 
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CALDWELL COUNTY MAN IN NEWSPAPER BUSINESS OVER SIXTY YEARS
	IN PATTONSBURG, HAMILTON, ETC.
	Narrator:  Eugene A. Martin

     Mr. Martin was reared in Hamilton and had his newspaper training here.  
Counting his apprenticeship days, he was in the newspaper business over 60 
years and recently retired from the Pattonsburg Call at the age of 8?.  He 
started the Call 53 years ago.
     Mr. Martin, or Gene, as he was known here, came here with his father M.C. 
Martin in the late 60s (see in another paper for that family history).  He 
began his printing instruction under the Lows who owned the old Hamilton News, 
later the News Graphic.  In 1880, he issued the campaign paper for the 
Greenbackers, and since he did not have a press, he got it out in the News 
Graphic office.  It lasted only through the campaign.  In the late fall, still 
determined to run a paper, he started one at Winston, but, as he said, he was 
starved out.
     Then he took his equipment and went to Pattonsburg to start another 
paper.  It was then a very small town of 350 people and some folks would say 
it did not need a paper.  He started the Call in a small box office on the 
west side of Main in what was later known as the Bradley lot.  At last he made 
a success of a paper.
     It ran for years as a weekly; in good times just before the world war, he 
ran it for a few years as a semi-weekly then it went back to a weekly, in 1916.
     He married Ida Youlin in Hamilton 1877 and they had 6 children.  Herbert 
and Clark (named for his father), Bruce and Claud of Okla., Mrs. L. Epperson 
of Plattonsburg, Inez dead.
     Interview  1935.


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