Lon G. Hardin (1861-1913)

HARDIN, CORBIN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Representative April 25, 1913 (front page)

LON HARDIN DEAD.

AMES EDITOR GOES SUDDENLY
Stricken in His Office This Forenoon.

Lon G. Hardin,, editor and proprietor of the Ames Times since its date of establishment and [--] of the time a prominent and recognized factor in the affairs of this city and county, died suddenly about eleven-thirty this forenoon after an illness of a few minutes. He had apparently been feeling as well as ever in his office this morning up the time when he was suddenly stricken with some heart trouble, and then the end came in fifteen or twenty minutes. Arrangements for his funeral await advices from relatives who have been notified but are considerably scattered. He is survived by his wife his son Max who is now in Texas, his mother at Spencer and his sisters, also a niece, Miss Lizzie Corbin, who has been a member of his family in recent years. He has bad as his business partner since the first of the present year B. H. Read, who remains for the moment in charge of the Times office and under whose directions and in accordance with Mr. Hardin's well-understood [---] in such matters the paper will be issued as usual this afternoon.

Editor Hardin was fifty-one years of age and he had been in Ames for twenty one years, having some to this county to establish the Times in 1892. He came to Ames from Jewell where he had been for time in the newspaper business; but he hailed originally from Spencer in Clay county His life previous to his coming to Ames is fairly to be considered as preliminary and preparatory, and it was distinctly at Ames that his life work will be considered to have been done. That in this lifework he demonstrated a high degree of ability and sterling qualities of character is fully and generally recognized. He conducted a highly respectable paper, commanded a liberal patronage, gained a very considerable personal following and influence, made a success of his affairs. He was for eight years postmaster at Ames, and in the activities of that community he was habitually prominent and influential. He made warm friends and his political and personal rivals and opponents readily for gave him. His sudden removal will occasion something of a readjustment in the relations of people to business and politics where he was active and the news at his death comes as a profound shock in the county and particularly to those people who were at all closely associated with him either as residents of the same locality or as persons engaged in the same line of business.