Pitt-Wayne County NcArchives News.....Major William A. "Buck" Hearne ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Guy Potts - egpotts@gmail.com Major William A. "Buck" Hearne ----- The Tarborough Southerner 13 May 1880 - Briefs Buck Hearne's new paper is the Raleigh Evening Post. We have never seen it, but know it's a good one as he can't get up any other sort. Its price is one cent per copy and we want it to be one sent to us. ----- The Tarborough Southerner 13 May 1880 Maj. Wm. A. Hearne, familiarly known to us, in Edgecombe, by the name of Buck Hearne, and to the people of the State as one of her best editorial writers, will commence soon the publication in Raleigh of the daily Penny Post. The Major has that within him from which to erect a good paper and we bespeak an exchange. Let us have it, "Buck." ----- The Wilson Mirror 28 Nov 1888 That gifted and admirable writer Buck Hearne pays the noble Dunham a rightly merited tribute as will be seen from the article on our editorial page. The many friends in Wilson of this brave and gallant gentleman will be pained to hear of his serious illness. ----- Daily Charlotte Observer 30 Apr 1893 One of the most remarkable men, in my judgment, said John R. Morris, at the Central Hotel the other day, that the State has ever produced, was Buck Hearne. He was reared in Pitt County and was a mill wright. When young he entered the army, and after the war blossomed out as an editor - at Wilson, Raleigh and Goldsboro. Nobody ever caught him reading a book, and yet he was full of knowledge of every kind. While he was the editor of the daily paper at Goldsboro, I was a kid and devil in the printing office. He never wrote an editorial until the last minute and many a time I have had to go to his room, wake him up and ask him for his copy. He would call for his pad, prop himself up on his pillows, make me sit down, and as fast as he could run his hand across the paper would throw off his stuff. But every thought in it was perfectly digested and every sentence was fit to go into a book. He was a wonderful writer, wonderful in his readiness and power. I have known him to get up in the middle of the afternoon, eat his dinner, then walk the pavement, up and down, in front of the hotel, pulling his moustache in that peculiar way of his, until night, and never speak to anybody. He was thinking then, and it was this thinking that enabled him to turn off those powerful editorials at a moment's notice - they were all thought out and there was nothing for him to do but to put them on paper. He wouldn't work. He would go to the office late at night, turn off his editorial, read the proof of it, and run over the exchanges - he could suck any paper dry in two minutes and that was the end of it. He was an editorial writer - that was all. He had an infirmity said Morris, but I always bowed to his genius. ----- The Farmer and Mechanic, Raleigh 28 Mar 1905 Newspaper Editors of the Old North State Another able man, connected for a while with the Raleigh Carolinian (move from Wilson by its editors and publishers), was John W. Dunham. In my judgment no North Carolinian in my time has ever written more timely or popular or abler editorials than those of Major Dunham. In his Raleigh days he wrote with as much vim and dash as common sense. Both he and his associate, Major William A. Hearne, were fearless and trenchant editors - Dunham perhaps the more cultured, Hearne, the more addicted to practical subjects and practical treatment of all subjects. "Buck" Hearne has seldom been surpassed in North Carolina as a general writer for the editorial page. The Carolinian bristled with the talent and energy of these "Son of Thunder" from the little town of Wilson. The paper was so bright and interesting it deserved to live longer. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/pitt/newspapers/buckhear168gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb