Washington Co., NE; Obituary, Edgar Franklin Fassett, 23 Aug 1917

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Submitted by Linda Schmehl 

Arlington Review-Herald, Arlington, Washington County, Nebraska, Aug. 23, 1917
Editor Fassett Buried Sunday
 Owner of Review-Herald Since 1902 Died at His Home In Colorado
 Edgar Franklin Fassett was born Feb. 6, 1856 at West Mill Creek, Pa., and died at his 
home in Colorado Springs Aug. 16, 1917. The cause of death being abccess of the lung. 
His school education was very limited because his family was broken up by the death of 
his mother when he was but eleven years of age. His education after that was from Life's 
School and when he slipped this mortal coil he was one of the best-informed men of the 
community. After his mother's death, he shifted from one place to another among 
relatives and gradually learning the printing trade in his brother's printing establishment 
in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was twenty-one he was married to Miss Ella Almira 
Wadleigh at Medina, N.Y. He took his bride to Middleport, N.Y. where he started up a 
small paper which he later sold and went to Youngstown, O. where he engaged in 
newspaper work and also held a position as mail carrier for a number of years. Again he 
entered a print shop and worked at the trade until 1887 when his health being bad, he 
came west and accepted a position on the Omaha World as a compositer. 
 In 1888 he moved his family to Fullerton, Neb., and shortly afterward purchased the 
Enterprise at Hickman, Neb. Here he did well until in 1893 he moved to Lincoln and 
organized the Fassett-Mickle Printing Co. This company was dissolved some time later 
and Mr. Fassett started in business for himself. He founded the Western Swine Breeder in 
1894 and built up a subscription list of  more than 10,000 subscribers. This paper he sold 
to the Nebraska State Journal in 1902, and is now being published by the Journal as the 
Independent Farmer and Western Swine Breeder. Coming to Arlington the same year he 
purchased the Review and the Herald and consolidated them.  His work here, as 
throughout his life, was always for the interests of the community in which he resided, 
more than for his own personal gains.
 On January 1, 1916, Mr. Fassett finished an 8 year's term as post master and on Jan. 12 
left for Colorado Springs with his wife where he remained until his death.
 He leaves to survive him his wife, Ella A. Fassett; two daughters, Mrs. H.L. Andrews 
and Mrs. Conrad Schmehl, of Arlington; two sons, Fred L., of Auburn, and Dale W., of 
Colorado Springs; two brothers and one sister. He was preceded in death by his youngest 
son, Reed, who died in August of last year.
 The funeral services were conducted at the Congregational Church by Rev. Bashford on 
Sunday at two o'clock. The remains were laid to rest in the Arlington Cemetery. 

 In the death of Editor E.F. Fassett, of Arlington, the newspaper profession of Nebraska 
suffered a distinct loss. His boyhood home was at Youngstown, O., where at an early age 
he learned the printer's trade. With an industry that never flagged, and a zeal to rise above 
mediocrity, he became more than a mere practical printer. In the mechanical department 
of a print shop he was an artist, and always as faithful to his trust as an employee as he 
was afterward generous and just as an employer. In its fullest sense it can be said of him, 
Fassett that he made good. As a friend he was dependable, steadfast and true. His 
enemies will admit that whatever their differences, Ed. Fassett always fought fair. He was 
a worthy and public-spirited citizen, a straight businessman, an affectionate husband and 
father. He enjoyed much, suffered much, and accomplished a great deal.
A.L. Bixby in The State Journal