Hon. True L. Norris Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Barbara Gottlock - BGOTTLOC@ccsd.edu

Surname: NORRIS
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915


Page 1284

     HON. TRUE L. NORRIS, a member of Governor Smith's council from
the First District, was born in Manchester, N. H. He was educated in the
public schools of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and fitted for Harvard
College, but the call of his country echoed the voice of duty, and he forsook

Page  1285

a college course to enter the army and saw service with the Fifth Massachu-
setts Volunteers. At the conclusion of his military seivice the youthful soldier
took up the law as a student in the office of his father, Col. A. F. L. Norris, in
Boston, arrd was admitted to the bar on the day that he attained his majority.
Several years of practice followed, until the allurements of a newspaper career
drew him away from the law to follow a more zealous mistress, journalism.
With the zest of a born journalist, Colonel Norris entered upon his work. For
several years he was stationed at Concord, where he represented the New
York Herald, the Boston Globe, and the Manchester Union. His corre-
spondence for these papers during the years of his service ranks among the
most brilliant of newspaper productions. The years covered by Colonel Norris
at Concord were exciting in politics and crowded with important events. In
holding up a daily mirror to this panorama, Colonel Norris displayed a ver-
satility, a piquant originality, and a correctness and minuteness of description
that called attention to his work as among the best of its kind.
     In 1887 Col. Charles A. Sinclair bought the Daily Evening Times, and
Weekly States and Union, and Mr, Norris at once assumed the position of
editor and manager of both papers, thereupon transferring his residence to
Portsmouth. As an editor he sustained the reputation he had made as a cor-
respondent; and as a manager he has developed business qualities equal to his
journalistic skill. As a result of this rare combination Colonel Norris has the
satisfaction of presiding over a bright paper that in point of circulation and
influence is second to none.

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