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Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, page 377
GEORGE W. VAN HORNE. George W. Van Horne is best known as editor of the Muscatine Tribune, but for a time he practiced law at the Muscatine bar and was quite successful. He came to Muscatine in May, 1855, and entered the office of Cloud & O'Connor, to complete his law studies. After his admission to the bar he formed a partnership with Hon. D. C. Cloud, then attorney general of the state, with whom he remained in practice until 1861. Mr. Van Horne took an active interest and prominent part in the organization of the republican party and in Fremont and Lincoln's campaigns was constantly on the stump for the repubican ticket. During the first week of President Lincoln's administration, he was appointed United States consul at Marseilles, France, and left with his family immediately for his post. He was removed by Andrew Johnson in 1866 and soon after accepted an invitation from the old state central committee of Arkansas to take editorial charge of the new state organ to be established at LIttle Rock. He soon resigned hiS position, but was persuaded by his Arkansas friends to accept a registrarship for Scott county in that state. He returned to Muscatine in the winter of 187O and began the publication of the Muscatine Tribune. For a long period he performed miscellaneous editorial work for both the Tribune and Journal, but severed his connection with the latter paper in 1887, when in December of that year the Muscatine News Company was incorporated and he was elected secretary of the company and editor-in-chief of the Muscatine Daily and Weekly News.
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