GUY, Harry M.

GUY, HOEPPNER

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 12/30/2009 at 11:17:54

Harry Marvin Guy, owner and publisher of the Osage News of Mitchell county, was born near Memphis, Missouri, January 23, 1880, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Guy. He enjoyed only the educational opportunities offered by the public schools and when he was twelve years of age for the first time entered a printing office. He sought a position at that time and has since followied the trade. He came in 1903 as foreman for the firm of Taylor and Gillespie on the Traer Star-Clipper, and was connected with that paper for four years. He then went to Le Mars, Iowa, with J. C. Gillespie, who purchased the Le Mars Sentinel, Mr. Guy acting as his foreman. After remaining there for about eleven months he purchased a half interest in the Harlan Republican, becoming a partner of P. B. Brown. For nearly two years he was identified with that paper and then became owner of the Clarion Clipper, which he continued to publish for five and a half years. He then sold the Clipper in September, 1915, and in November of that year went to Ames, where he was part owner of the Tribune, and later was sole owner for a few months, but disposed of that paper in May, 1916, and purchased the Osage News, of which he took charge on the 1st of July. He has now published the News for more than a year and has kept it up to the highest standards of modern journalism.

In Traer, Iowa, in June, 1909, Mr. Guy was united in marriage to Miss Louise Marie Hoeppner, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hoeppner, and they have two children: Helen Elizabeth, aged four; and Esther Louise, two years of age.

In his political views Mr. Guy has always been a stalwart republican and publishes his paper in the interests of that party, staunchly advocating its principles and giving intelligent argument for his position. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and is loyal to the teachings of the craft. Whatever success he has achieved in life is attributable entirely to his own efforts and is due in considerable measure to the fact that he has always continued in the line in which he embarked as a young man, never dissipating his energies over various fields. He is thoroughly familiar with every branch of newspaper work and the printing business and he holds to high standards in his publication and in the nature of the work turned out for his customers from his job printing department.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, Vol. II, 1918, page 121.