Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 768
H. C. BARNER

It is a well recognized fact that the most powerful influence in shaping and controlling public life is the press, which reaches a greater number of people than any other agency, and thus, in the hands of persons competent to direct it, always will be a most important factor in molding public opinion and shaping the destiny of the nation. H. C. BARNER, the subject of this sketch, is prominently connected with the journalism of Harrison county, Iowa, and is, at this time, the junior member of the News Publishing Company, the publishers of the Harrison County News. In this enterprise Mr. BARNER is connected with A. H. SNIFF. The Harrison County News is one of the most popular newspapers in Harrison county, and compares favorably with the best local newspapers in point of news, editorial ability and mechanical execution in his section of Iowa.

H. C. BARNER was born in January 5, 1880, at North Bend, Nebraska. He received his early education in the public schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, and learned the printing trade in the leading printing and publishing houses of the latter city. Mr. BARNER began his newspaper experience on the Portland Oregonian in 1902, and three years later he located in Des Moines, Iowa, and worked on various dailies of that city until he took charge of the mechanical department of the Catholic Messenger, of Davenport, Iowa. Subsequently he returned to Omaha, Nebraska, where he acted as foreman of the Western Newspaper Union’s mechanical department. In 1910, Mr. BARNER assumed the management of the Chase Publishing Company, of Omaha. This company issues the Western Banker, of Omaha; the Western Financier, of Kansas City; the Central Banker, of Chicago, and the Excelsior, the society and club paper of Omaha, and the oldest publication in the western metropolis.

In January, 1915, Mr. BARNER purchased a half interest in the Harrison County News, and assumed the personal management of this paper. Mr. BARNER is an able manager, a forceful writer, and a man devoted to the best interests of Harrison county.

H. C. BARNER was married in 1905 to Claudia SPEIDELL, and to this union two promising children have been born. Mr. and Mrs. BARNER are both active and useful workers in every good cause that reflects the best interests of the city in which they live, and the county in which their labors are wrought, and are fast winning their way to recognition as among the county’s most useful citizens.

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