Albert Walworth Ransom Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1496-1497 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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	ALBERT WALWORTH RANSOM is at present business manager and a half 
owner of Public Opinion, daily and weekly Watertown, South Dakota, the 
leading newspaper in the northwestern part of the state. Mr. Ransom is a 
native of the Empire state, having been born in Clinton county, New 
York. In early life he removed to Freeborn county, Minnesota, where he 
alternately attended school and worked on his father's farm. In 1882 he 
came to South Dakota. locating at Redfield, Spink county. He became 
associated with the Redfield Journal as an employe and later purchased a 
half interest in the plant. In 1892 he removed to Watertown, Codington 
county, and, in company with Herbert Geddes, purchased the Watertown 
News, a daily newspaper. Later, in company with Frank J. Cory, he 
purchased Public Opinion, a weekly paper, consolidating the two and 
taking the latter name. In 1894 Mr. Geddes retired from the firm, 
leaving Messrs. Ransom and Cory sole owners and equal partners.