C. R. Tinan Biography


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C. R. TINAN is one of the best known newspaper men of South Dakota. and 
his journal,the "Kimball Graphic," published at Kimball is one of the 
most widely quoted newspapers of this section of the country. He was 
born upon the Ohio Western Reserve, in 1853, and was reared and 
educated in Painesville, his early life being passed in that city and 
Cleveland. After his graduation from the schools, he was especially 
fitted for a business career, but his strong literary instincts 
rebelled at such a course, and before he had hardly attained his 
majority he had gained an enviable reputation as a special contributor 
to the "American Field" and "Forest and Stream," and other periodicals 
devoted to field sports, a pastime to which he was devotedly attached. 

Coming to Kimball, South Dakota, in 1883, on a hunting trip, Mr. Tinan 
was induced to take charge of the struggling weekly called the "Kimball 
Enterprise." He changed the name to the "Kimball Graphic," and at once 
began a newspaper career which for successful endeavors has few equals 
in the west. From a modest beginning the "Graphic" has steadily 
advanced until it now has a finely equipped office and secured a 
competency for itself and owner. 

Mr. Tinan now owns one of the most beautiful residences in the city, 
luxuriously furnished, where he spends his leisure hours, enjoying the 
society of his family and friends in the midst of all the comforts that 
go to make life worth the living. He is devotedly attached to his 
profession and has been for years a member of the executive committee 
of the National Editorial Association. He is a pronounced Democrat in 
politics, but has never sought nor desired public office, preferring to 
give his undivided attention to journalistic work, for which he has 
proved himself so ably fitted. Mr. Tinan married Miss Adda Argus, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Argus, Shenandoah, Iowa, and has one 
child, a son, Percy W. Tinan, a student at Cornell.