JUNKIN, Charles Monroe - 1890 Bio (1855-1915)

JUNKIN, PATRICK, SLAGLE

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Date: 8/12/2007 at 09:52:23

Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa, Printed 1890 by Lake City Publishing Co., Chicago
Pages 369-370

Charles Monroe JUNKIN, editor and junior proprietor of the Fairfield "Ledger", is a native of Fairfield. He was born on the 18th of May, 1855, and is a son of William W. and Elizabeth (PATRICK) JUNKIN, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Our subject received liberal educational advantages, having been a student in the Iowa College of Grinnell, and the Denmark Academy, of Denmark, Lee County, the first higher school established in the State. He learned the printer's trade in the office of the Fairfield "Ledger", and further supplemented his knowledge of the business in the Government printing office in Washington, D. C., after which, for two years, he indulged in the experience of a tourist printer, working in various offices from New York to Salt Lake City, and from St. Paul to St. Louis. May 26, 1878, he became a partner with his father in the Fairfield "Ledger", and has continued that connection to the present time, covering a period of twelve years. Since the appointment of his father in April, 1889, to the Government position which he still holds, Charles M. has assumed the editorial charge and business management of the "Ledger".

On the 8th of September, 1880, Mr. JUNKIN was united in marriage with Miss Grace SLAGLE, a daughter of C. W. SLAGLE, the union being celebrated in Fairfield, of which city the lady was a native. In politics, Mr. JUNKIN is a Republican, having been actively identified with the party since attaining his majority. In 1884, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, and has served three years as a member of the Republican State Central Committee, during one year of which time he officiated as its Secretary. For a period of three years he has been Secretary of the Iowa Press Association, and for a like period was Secretary of the Republican League, of Iowa. During the campaign of 1888 he assisted in the organization of eight hundred political clubs in Iowa, and in other ways aided in the interests of his party.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.