Biographical Sketch of J. W. Vincent, Camden County, Missouri >From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889. ********************************************************************** J. W. Vincent, editor of the "Reveille", at Linn Creek, was born in Jackson, Miss., May 14, 1859, and is the son of Joshua S. and Susan (Williams) Vincent, the former a native of New York and the latter of the Emerald Isle. The father has had quite a notable career. He was a printer by trade, entering his apprenticeship at the age of fourteen years, and was at work on the New York Tribune, under Horace Greeley, at the time of the Mexican War. He abandoned his business and enlist- ed in Company I, First Regiment, sailed around Cape Horn, and in 1848 landed in California, where he served two years and a half, being dis- charged at San Diego. He was wounded twice in a skirmish with the Indians; was a sergeant, and after being discharged remained about seven years in California, being engaged in mining. He bought the Clear Lake property, near San Francisco, which is now quite extensive property. There he ran a public inn or resort, which he carried on for three years. This property was purchased under a Mexican Government grant, and he was in litigation over this for some years, as there was an opposition grant, which was a forgery, being afterwards proven as such. An assassin was hired to put him out of the way, and a load of buckshot was fired into his neck one morning while he was sitting in his hotel, seriously wounding him. However, he recovered, sold out in 1856, and returned to New York State, where he worked on several of the leading papers in the cities of that State, also being foreman of the Milwaukee Sentinel for some time. He was sent south as a correspondent of this paper, finally locating in Mississippi, and at the time of the breaking out of the war was at work on the Jackson Mississippian, and set up the Mississippi ordinance of secession when first issued. In 1861 he left and went to Wisconsini, and from there to Jackson county, Ill., where he founded the New Era at Carbondale, which he ran for about three years. In 1868 he came to Linn Creek and founded the Reveille, which publication he continued until 1880, when his son, J. W., purchased the office, and has since continued the publication. The father was married in Milwaukee, Wis., and has but two children: Joshua W. and Henry M. The father is a resident of Linn Creek. J. W. Vincent was about nine years of age when he came to Linn Creek with his parents. Here he completed his growth, received a common school educa- tion, and learned the printer's trade of his father. In 1880 he purchased the paper of his father, as before stated, and this sheet is edited in the interests of the Republican party, and is a spicy journal. Mr. Vincent was married first, in 1880, to Miss Mary E. Shoop, who bore him one child, Mary Ida, and died in 1883. In Septem- ber, 1884, Mr. Vincent chose for his second wife Miss Elizabeth M. Foster, by whom he had three children, one now living, Mabel. Mr. Vincent is a Past Master Mason, and was Master of the late Grange lodge. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joe Miller Penny (Eisenbarger) Harrell ====================================================================