RICHARD B. CLAIBORNE
"Having come to Anita with the full determination of making it our future home, and having taken charge of the local columns of the Anita Times, it will he our constant aim to give our readers all the news of our town and county, to do this we need the assistance of our citizens, as we propose to publish a local paper, for the good of Anita and Cass county. The columns of the Times are open to all communications of a newsy nature. We hope by our untiring efforts to deserve the hearty support of the public.
"In the mean-time we are prepared to do all kinds of plain and fancy job work at reasonable rates and hope to get a share of your patronage,"
R. B. CLAIRBORNE.
Richard B. Claiborne, was born in Nantes, France, on the 14th of May, 1839. His father, Richard B., died in Glenwood, Iowa, in 1879, and his mother died in France in 1852. The subject of this received his education in England and France, and on coming to America in 1854, he served an apprenticeship to the printer's trade, until the war broke out, when he went to Cincinnati and entered the theatrical profession at Pike's Opera House. He was employed in that business for a number of years, when he began traveling through the south, and was taken prisoner by Webb's guerilla band, of General Price's army, at White Bluffs, which is situated on the Arkansas River. He then returned to Glenwood, and began the grocery business, and was so engaged until 1867, when his entire stock was destroyed by fire. When quite a boy, he became devil in a printing office, of which his father was proprietor. After the fire he returned to his trade, which he has followed ever since. He came to Anita in 1884, and in March of that year, began the publication of the Anita Times. He has established a good circulation throughout the country, and has received the confidence and esteem of Cass county. Mr. Claiborne was married in November, 1806, in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, to Miss Elizabeth A. Register, a daughter of Josiah R. and Catharine A. (Tutt) Register. They have been blessed with four children - Hansford H., James R., Elizabeth W., deceased, and Bertha K. Mr. Claiborne is an independent politician.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 449-450.
